1863 1st ed Southern History of the CIVIL WAR Confederate Pollard CSA Rob E Lee

Southern history of the war. The first year of the war. Famous work on the first year of the American Civil War. Wear as seen in photos.

Complete with all 308 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such. 9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm).

Pollard (February 27, 1832December 17, 1872) was an American journalist and Confederate advocate. Pollard is most famous for authoring The Lost Cause in 1866, followed up by The Lost Cause Regained in 1868. His work argued that the primary reason for Secession was not slavery but the preservation of state sovereignty, although he clearly supported the institution of slavery. [1] The Lost Cause and The Lost Cause Regained also advocated for the supremacy of the white race, supported the relegation of blacks to a second class status, and took the government to task for excesses committed during and after the recent war.

Edward Alfred Pollard was born on February 27, 1832 on the Oakridge Plantation in Nelson County, Virginia. He graduated at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1849. He then studied the Law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia as well as in Baltimore, where he was admitted to the bar. He worked for a newspaper in California until 1855.

From 1857 to 1861, he was clerk of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. During the American Civil War, he 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. In January, he proceeded to Richmond, Virginia to be exchanged there for Albert D. Richardson (18331869), a well-known correspondent of the New York Tribune, who, however, had escaped before Pollard arrived.

For example, in 1859, he advocated a reopening of the slave trade in Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South. A decade later, in 1868, he urged for the necessity of white supremacy during Reconstruction in The Lost Cause Regained.

A year later, he wrote a scathing biography of Jefferson Davis entitled The Life of Jefferson Davis. Meanwhile, he also edited a weekly paper in Richmond, Virginia from 1867 to 1869.

Moreover, he conducted the Political Pamphlet there during the presidential campaign of 1868. The item "1863 1st ed Southern History of the CIVIL WAR Confederate Pollard CSA Rob E Lee" is in sale since Thursday, March 31, 2016.

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• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Military & War
• Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition
• Origin: American
• Year Printed: 1863
• Printing Year: 1863