An American journalist who attended both the University of Virginia (1849 graduation)and the College of William and Mary, where he majored in Law. Pollard went to California till 1855, during which time he was a newspaper journalist. He was clerk of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary Proceedings 1857-1861 when the Civil War broke out. Being an ardent secessionist, he traveled to Richmond (Virginia) where he was one of the editors of the Richmond Examiner newspaper, which was pro-Confederate but also extremely critical of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Pollard was captured in 1864 while sailing to England and held as a prisoner in Boston (Fort Warren)from May until he was paroled in August. Over the next year, Pollard was held by Union forces at Fort Monroe (Virginia), and paroled again in January, 1865. He returned to Richmond at that time, and was editor of a newspaper there from 1867 to 1869. He published "The Southern History of the War" in 3 volumes, "The Lost Cause" (he is credited with the term), along with several other books and pamphlets. He died in Lynchburg, Virginia and was was buried in the cemetery of his family plantation of Oakridge in Nelson County, Virginia.
An American journalist who attended both the University of Virginia (1849 graduation)and the College of William and Mary, where he majored in Law. Pollard went to California till 1855, during which time he was a newspaper journalist. He was clerk of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary Proceedings 1857-1861 when the Civil War broke out. Being an ardent secessionist, he traveled to Richmond (Virginia) where he was one of the editors of the Richmond Examiner newspaper, which was pro-Confederate but also extremely critical of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Pollard was captured in 1864 while sailing to England and held as a prisoner in Boston (Fort Warren)from May until he was paroled in August. Over the next year, Pollard was held by Union forces at Fort Monroe (Virginia), and paroled again in January, 1865. He returned to Richmond at that time, and was editor of a newspaper there from 1867 to 1869. He published "The Southern History of the War" in 3 volumes, "The Lost Cause" (he is credited with the term), along with several other books and pamphlets. He died in Lynchburg, Virginia and was was buried in the cemetery of his family plantation of Oakridge in Nelson County, Virginia.
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