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Lucius B. Northrop
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http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Lucius_B._Northrop
Northrop was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He won appointment to the United States Military Academy in West Point, Class of 1831. His time there overlapped with a fellow Southerner, Jefferson Davis (Class of 1828). After graduating, Northrop was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant and assigned to a series of posts, including duty in Florida Territory during the Second Seminole War. While on duty in Florida in 1839,
Northrop suffered a severe wound to his knee as the result of the discharge of his own weapon- maybe he was the Bernard P. Milton Oliver Fife (Barney Fife) of the Civil War.
The connection between Northrop and Davis was significant for Northrop's career. Significantly disabled, Northrop could no longer perform field duties for the United States Army. As the Confederate Commissary-General, Northrop faced almost insurmountable logistical problems. As the war continued, Confederate soldiers began, in letters home and to their congressmen, to express concerns about the performance of the office of the Commissary-General. Loyal to his friend, and aware of the overall logistical dilemmas facing the Confederacy, President Davis refrained from making Northrop into a scapegoat. Davis appointed Northrop a
brigadier general on November 26, 1864, but he did not risk sending the appointment to the Confederate Senate, where it would surely have been rejected.
After the war, Northrop was
arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 30, 1865, by the victorious Federals and confined for four months as an officer who had given aid and comfort to the Confederacy, and
for the privations suffered by federal prisoners-of-war during Northrop's service as Commissary-General. After his release in November 1865, he lived in obscurity on a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.