Show Plot Andersonville Trial

Authors: Saul Levitt

Time Period: 1865

Setting: Courtroom

Summary: The Andersonville Trial by Saul Levitt is a post-Civil War courtroom drama. It explores the 1865 court-martial of Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of the notorious Andersonville prison camp, where nearly 14,000 Union soldiers died of starvation and disease. The play centers on the timeless moral defense of "just following orders.