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Pollard, Edward Albert

journalist, author, was born Feb. 27, 1828, in Nelson county, Va. He was a once noted journalist of Richmond, Va., and an active opponent of the policy of Jefferson Davis during the civil war. He was the author of Black Diamonds; Letters of the Southern Spy; Southern History of the War; Observations in the North; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee and his Lieutenants; Life of Jefferson Davis, with the Secret History of the Confederacy; and The Virginia Tourist. He died Dec. 12, 1872, in Lynchburg, Va.