PUBLIC "-//College of William and Mary::Earl Gregg Swem Library::Special Collections//TEXT (US::ViW::viw00171:: Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers, 1862-1945)//EN" "viw00171.xml" Inventory of the Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers 1862-1945 Pollard, Joseph Lawrence Mss. 2000.P76 Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary © 2009 By the College of William and Mary. All rights reserved.

Conditions of Use

Finding aid created by Ellen Strong, 2007 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. Inventory of the Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers, 1862-1945 A Collection in theSpecial Collections Research Center Mss. 2000.P76

Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary 2009 Special Collections Staff. Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary Overview of the Collection Special Collections Research Center Joseph Lawrence Pollard Papers 1862-1945 01/Mss. 2000.P76 0.30 58 items. The papers are in: English 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. Pollard, Joseph Lawrence arrangement Administrative Information Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

 Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

 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.

 Processing Information

Processed by Ellen Strong in 2000.

 Other Information

A PDF document of this inventory is available online.

Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/2000_P76_Pollard__Joseph.pdf

 Biographical Note

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.

 Scope and Contents

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.

 Additional Information Index Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Correspondence Memoir Typescripts Topical Term: Battle of Hatcher's Run, Feb. 1865. Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 26th. King and Queen County (Va.)--History--19th century. Siege of Petersburg, Va. (Richmond-Petersburg Campaign), 1864-1865. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Front