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POLLARD, EDWARD ALBERT (1828–1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLLARD, See also:EDWARD See also:ALBERT (1828–1872) , See also:American journalist, was See also:born in See also:Nelson See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 27th of See also:February 1828. He graduated at the university of Virginia in 1849, studied See also:law at the See also:College of See also:William and See also:Mary, and in See also:Baltimore (where he was admitted to the See also:bar), and was engaged in newspaper See also:work in See also:California until 1855. In 1857–1861 he was clerk of the judiciary See also:committee of the See also:National See also:House of Representatives. By 1859 he had become an outspoken Secessionist, and during the See also:Civil See also:War he was one of the See also:principal editors-of the See also:Richmond Examiner, which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to See also:President See also:Jefferson See also:Davis. In 1864 Pollard sailed for See also:England, but the See also:vessel on which he sailed was captured as a See also:blockade runner, and he was confined in Fort See also:Warren in See also:Boston See also:Harbour from the 29th of May until the 12th of See also:August, when he was paroled. In See also:December he was placed in See also:close confinement at Fort See also:Monroe by See also:order of Secretary See also:Stanton, but was soon again paroled by See also:General B. F. See also:Butler, and in See also:January proceeded to Richmond to be exchanged there for Albert D. See also:Richardson (1833–1869), a well-known correspondent of the New See also:York See also:Tribune, who, however, had escaped before Pollard arrived. In 1867–1869 Pollard edited a weekly See also:paper at Richmond, and he conducted the See also:Political Pamphlet there during the presidential See also:campaign of 1868. His publications include See also:Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the See also:South (1859), in which he advocated a reopening of the slave See also:trade; The See also:Southern See also:History of the War (3 vols.: First See also:Year of the War, with B. M.

DeWitt, 1862; Second Year of the War, 1864; Third Year of the War, 1864); Observations in the See also:

North: Eight Months in See also:Prison and on See also:Parole (1865) ; The Lost Cause (1866) ; See also:Lee and His Lieutenants (1867); The Lost Cause Regained (1868), a southern view of reconstruction urging the See also:necessity of See also:white supremacy; The See also:Life of Jefferson Davis (1869), an See also:arraignment of the Confederate president; and The Virginia Tourist (187o).

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