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LUCIUS B. NORTHROP

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LUCIUS B. NORTHROP

<b>160. LUCIUS B. NORTHROP</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1813-1894). Confederate Commissary General. Both Beauregard and Johnston argued that he was responsible for the food shortage at Manassas Junction. Appointed brigadier general in Nov 1864 but was never confirmed by Senate. Following Confederate defeat, he was charged with starving Union prisoners though charges were never pressed. <b>War-date</b> LS “<i>L B Northrop</i>,” 1p, large 8vo, Richmond, Apr 26, 1862. On CSA Subsistence Department letterhead to Secretary of War George W. Randolph. Responding to the Secretary’s letter “<i>respecting the use of Bonds... from the Treasury department in meeting requisitions for funds</i>,” Col Northrop informs him, <i>“all </i>[have] <i>elicited repeated declarations of efforts made & inability to use them</i>” by principal commissaries of his department. Boldly signed. Docketed on verso. Some feathering of ink; small fold separations w/o paper loss; o/w VG.

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