LUCIUS B. NORTHRUP
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(1811- 1894) Confederate Commissary-General of the Appointed by Confederate president Jefferson Davis, a personal friend, Northrop was responsible for the logistics and supply chain that transported food, clothing, and forage to the Southern armies of the American Civil War, particularly the Army of Northern Virginia. Northrop was also responsible for supplying the prison camps that housed Federal prisoners-of-war. Rare war-date manuscript L.S. as Commissary General on C.S.A. 'Subsistence Department' letterhead, 1p. oblong 8vo., Richmond, Feb. 4, 1862. Northrup sends a letter of appointment and oath of office for three captains to serve as Assistant Commissaries in the Provisional Army, C.S.A., along with 'official bonds' to be executed. Two tiny marginal chips, else very good.
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