As the artcile,”Andersonville from history,com describes, “Henry Wirz, the commander of Andersonville was arrested for the murder of soldiers incarcerated at the prison during the war.” Just hearing what he did makes you want to know more about him, well , Catherine Gourley’s “The Horrors of Andersonville”tells us more. “Wirz’s job was to enforce prisoner discipline inside the pen and to ensure that no one escaped...And although he was not responsible for securing or distributing food, he could withhold rations as punishment.” The conditions weren’t the only things that caused the prisoners to lose their lives, the camp's own commander, Henry Wirz, reportedly, took many lives of the soldiers and was executed for it.A commander’s job was to keep the prisoner’s in discipline inside the camps and faculties and to make sure that no one ran away but Henry Wirz even though food wasn’t his area of in charge, he would take away the privileges of food from some prisoners as a way of punishment. Here is another Human Right which was