A Collection in the Special Collections Research Center
Accession Number Mss. 2000.P76
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special Collections Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794 USA Phone: (757) 221-3090 Fax: (757) 221-5440 Email: spcoll@wm.edu URL: http://swem.wm.edu/scrc/
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.
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Preferred Citation
Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Joseph P. Pollard on 08/04/2000.
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.
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.