Title:: Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers 1862-1945

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Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Summary

Extent:
0.30
Creator:
Pollard, Joseph Lawrence arrangement
Abstract:
Correspondence and memoir; 1862-1897, bulk 1862-1866, of Civil War soldier Sergeant Joseph Lawrence Pollard, Co. I, 26th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Gen. A. P. Hill's division). Letters were written by Pollard to his wife Martha Elizabeth 'Pat' (Hutchinson Pollard at 'Rosewood' in the upper part of King and Queen County, Va. Letters describe camp life and respond to his wife's news of family and home. Letters were written from Gloucester Point, camp near Richmond, Chaffin's Bluff, Chattanooga, Tenn., Burton's Farm, in the trenches near Petersburg, and a camp near Hatcher's Run. Also includes typescripts of letters and two typescript memoirs about Civil War battles. Finally, a typescript account of the Battle of Midway during World War II by Joseph P. Pollard, a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps is also available.
Language:
The papers are in: English

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence and memoir; 1862-1897, bulk 1862-1866, of Civil War soldier Sergeant Joseph Lawrence Pollard, Co. I, 26th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Gen. A. P. Hill's division). Letters were written by Pollard to his wife Martha Elizabeth 'Pat' (Hutchinson Pollard at 'Rosewood' in the upper part of King and Queen County, Va. Letters describe camp life and respond to his wife's news of family and home. Letters were written from Gloucester Point, camp near Richmond, Chaffin's Bluff, Chattanooga, Tenn., Burton's Farm, in the trenches near Petersburg, and a camp near Hatcher's Run. Also includes typescripts of letters and two typescript memoirs about Civil War battles. Finally, a typescript account of the Battle of Midway during World War II by Joseph P. Pollard, a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps is also available.

Biographical / historical:

Sergeant Joseph Lawrence Pollard of King and Queen County, Va. served in Co. I, 26th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Gen. A. P. Hill's division) during the Civil War. He saw action primarily in Virginia, but also in Tennessee.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Joseph P. Pollard on 08/04/2000.
Physical description:
58 items.