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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 29: (search)
nes. obstinate objections of President Davis. his mania about cotton. the Confederate States drained of meat in the second year of the war. statement of Commissary Northrop. attempt to get supplies through the blockade. how mismanaged. the Crenshaw contract. small yield of impressments. the whole Confederate policy of substton. Jeff. Davis October 31, 1862. President Davis was assured that the consequences of the refusal of this policy of exchange would be most serious. Col. Northrop, the Commissary General, informed him that present efforts, even if successful, would not produce cured bacon for the next year. The departments of the east hhich has already manifested itself both in Gen. Lee's army and the Army of the West, under the privations to which they have been subjected. Respectfully, L. B. Northrop. No official reply was ever received to this communication. Indeed about this time President Davis left Richmond on a visit to Mississippi, and in a spee
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 39: (search)
our armies, and it was apparent that no bread could be expected from Virginia. In November, 1864, President Davis applied to the Commissary General to know if his magazines were increasing or diminishing. He sent back word that they were diminishing, and to give him more accurate information forwarded the following statement, made in the previous month, disclosing the alarming fact, that thirty million requisitions were unfilled. Bureau of Subsistence. Richmond, October 18, 1864. Col. L. B. Northrop, Commissary-General of Subsistence Colonel: I have the honour to submit for your consideration the inclosed memorandum of meats on hand at the various depots and posts in the Confederate States, from which you will see at a glance the alarming condition of the commissariat. Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are the only States where we have an accumulation, and from these all the armies of the Confederacy are now subsisting, to say nothing of the prisoners. The Chief Commissary