The state of Georgia has placed two historical markers near Andersonville declaring that wartime shortages caused the suffering there, which thus cannot be blamed on anybody, and that “deaths among the prison guards were as high as among the prisoners.” In 1909 the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument to Henry Wirz (which still stands in the village of Andersonville) proclaiming that this “hero-martyr” was “judicially murdered” by Yankees whose general in chief prevented the exchange of prisoners.
