On 10 November 1865 Henry Wirz, a Swiss-born Confederate officer who had commanded the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia, was hanged in Washington, D.C. He was convicted by a military tribunal of conspiracy and murder, in a trial that remains controversial. Andersonville was overcrowded, with a lack of food, shelter and clean water, and roughly 13,000 of the about 45,000 Union prisoners held there died. Wirz was the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes after the American Civil War.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.