The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-11
GEN. NORTHROP DEAD
He and JEFF Davis Starved the
Union Prisoners.
CONFEDERATE PROTESTS VAIN.
Strange Arscsion Betwsea the Rebel
Presto sns and the Demon R~srsn.s-
bic for AndsrsenvnIe,s Herrera
Ratrrxoax. Feb. ia-Gen. Lacius B.

BALTIMORE Feb. ia-Gen. Lacsus B.
Northrop is dead.
L1eias Beiiinger So-taron wss bcr,, in
Charleston. :. e, September 8 fSf,. He
was graduated ~ the United States rsiii-
tsry scadefny in is2a. and was then ar-
poinse9 second lieutenant of Dragons ana
STATIONED az Fort Gibson and other rsAces
IN ihe Wess for elgas years. He was
severely wounded while following an H.
eaan trail, and after his recovery he re-
turned 10 Charleston on siek-leaye. never
resurniac active service He studied
medicsne a. jefferson college, rhiiades-
phis. and on his return 10 Charleston
Rraesaced occasionally for charity on.y
lhe war department, having been in
formed thai he was praetscing medicine.
dropped ban from The army. hut when
Jefferson Davis became secretary of war
ne not only reinstated him. hat promoted
MN nm. 70 the rank OF captain. With fuIi paw.
when South Carolina seeded. he was
among the FIRST to resign his com mission,
ana when provisional government was
established =. Montgomery, Ala. Jefferson
Davis offered him the place OF corr u,isssry
general. which, after declining twice, he
accepted ut the urgent solicitation OF Mr.,
paws, who had been MS cias.mate AZ
west Point and his friend ever since
When Richmond became the capital OF
the Confeterscy. he removed TO sha, city
and remained 1t the head of the commits
sary department until within q few
weeks OF the fall of the Con-
federacv. 1t is related that after
the frat battle OF Bull Run.
on being requested 10 make some pro-
vision for feeding the prisoners then in
LIBBY prison, he replied: II know moth
ing OF ankee prisoners; throw them all
INTO the James river" and subsequently
did All in his power to thwart the efforts
OF those who were humanely laboring TO
render the subsistence received by the
prisoners less precarious. By the spring
oil 1854 Northrop had succeeded in having
law passed abolishing the Office of COM
missary OF prisons. thus leaving the whole
matter OF providing food for them in his
own hands. From this date. SAYS Pol
lard In bis Secret History of the Con-
fedsraey." whatever there was OF distress
for food among the prisoners IL to be
properly and distinctly charged TO one
man in the Coutederacy, Northrop.r He
was referred to IN the Confederate con-
gress as "a certain commissary general
who Is curse to our country" land has
attempted to starve the prisoners in our
hands. Senator Orr. of South Carolina,
with the aid OF several congressman, at
tempted TO procure his removal from
office. but was defeated by the opposition
OF Jefferson Davis, whose affection for
Sorthrop" is declared by Pollard to be
'grotesque. inexplicable. insane" After
the fall of Richmond Northrop retired to
North Carolina and engaged in farming,
but In July, 1856. he was arrested by the
national authorities and con aimed in Rich
mond until the following November, when
he was released. He then bought farm
near Charlottesville, Va. upon which he
had since resided, almost forgotten by the
world which had once shuddered over the
recital Of his inhuman acts.l