. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . away. We find that he quarreled with Lucius R. Northrop, theConfederate commissary-general of subsistence, insisting thatthe latter did not furnish sufficient food for the prisoners,and he constantly urges the construction of new prisons to re-lieve the crowding at Andersonville, and to enable the of-ficers in charge to get food more easily for their prisoners. Hemany times makes requisitions for food and tools and, finally,when conditions had become intolerable, twice recommendedthat the prisoners be paroled, even without equivale
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . away. We find that he quarreled with Lucius R. Northrop, theConfederate commissary-general of subsistence, insisting thatthe latter did not furnish sufficient food for the prisoners,and he constantly urges the construction of new prisons to re-lieve the crowding at Andersonville, and to enable the of-ficers in charge to get food more easily for their prisoners. Hemany times makes requisitions for food and tools and, finally,when conditions had become intolerable, twice recommendedthat the prisoners be paroled, even without equivalents, declar-ing that it was better that they should go than that they shouldstarve. On the other hand, he disputed with some of the sur-geons whose reports upon hospitals and prisons had seemed toreflect upon his administration, and denounced Colonel Chand-ler, making a defense of the Andersonville prison not war-ranted by his own reports. His death, in February, 1865, didnot end the controversy. The life of Wirz has been mentioned. At the close of the [178].
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