GRAPHIC Henry Wirz autopsy photograph

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"Like Booth's autopsy picture, the shot of the autopsy of Henry Wirz was suppressed by order of the War Department. Fortunately, a copy of Gardner's photo turned up in 1952 in the Hay-Nicolay papers held by the Illinois State Historical Society."

Taken by Alexander Gardner.

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The removal of Wirz's vertebrae and arm bones as evidence have a much more recent example -- in 2003 when Saddam Hussein's sons were killed, Coalition forces removed a metallic implant from one of them to verify the serial number on it as an additional means of identification.
 
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