Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Confederate imprint “THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR.” by Edward A. Pollard, Richmond, West & Johnston, 1862. 389pp, 150cm x 235 cm. Pressed cloth covers, very good condition. Edward Alfred Pollard was one of the principal editors of the Richmond Examiner (along with Robert William Hughes), which supported the Confederate States of America, but was hostile to President Jefferson Davis. In 1864, he 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 Harbor from 29 May until 12 August, when he was paroled. In December of that year, he was placed in close confinement at Fort Monroe by order of the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, but was soon again paroled by General B. F. Butler. In January, he proceeded to Richmond, Virginia to be exchanged there for Albert D. Richardson (1833–1869), a well-known correspondent of the New York Tribune, who, however, had escaped before Pollard arrived.
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