Captain Samuel Nicholas forms the United States Marine Corps at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. United States Marines have fought in every single American conflict since the Revolutionary War.
Confederate Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of Andersonville prison, is executed in Washington D.C. for war crimes during the Civil War. Wirz, an immigrant from Switzerland, oversaw Andersonville's high mortality rate among Union prisoners-of-war.
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