POLLARD, EDWARD ALBERT (18281872)

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POLLARD, EDWARD ALBERT (18281872) , American journalist, was born in Nelson county, Virginia, on the 27th of February 1828. He graduated at the university of Virginia in 1849, studied law at the College of William and Mary, and in

Baltimore

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(where he was admitted to the bar), and was engaged in newspaper

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in California until 1855. In 18571861 he was clerk of the judiciary committee of the National

House

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of Representatives. By 1859 he had become an outspoken Secessionist, and during the Civil War he was one of the principal editors-of the Richmond Examiner, which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to President Jefferson Davis. In 1864 Pollard sailed for England, but the vessel on which he sailed was captured as a blockade runner, and he was confined in Fort Warren in Boston Harbour from the 29th of May until the 12th of August, when he was paroled. In December he was placed in close confinement at Fort Monroe by order of Secretary Stanton, but was soon again paroled by General B. F. Butler, and in January proceeded to Richmond to be exchanged there for Albert D. Richardson (18331869), a well-known correspondent of the New

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Tribune, who, however, had escaped before Pollard arrived. In 18671869 Pollard edited a weekly

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at Richmond, and he conducted the Political Pamphlet there during the presidential campaign of 1868.
His publications include Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the

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(1859), in which he advocated a reopening of the slave trade; The Southern History of the War (3 vols.: First Year of the War, with B. M. DeWitt, 1862; Second Year of the War, 1864; Third Year of the War, 1864); Observations in the North: Eight Months in Prison and on Parole (1865) ; The Lost Cause (1866) ; Lee and His Lieutenants (1867); The Lost Cause Regained (1868), a southern view of reconstruction urging the necessity of white supremacy; The Life of Jefferson Davis (1869), an arraignment of the Confederate president; and The Virginia Tourist (187o).

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