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satisfaction that negro slaves could be made Xovember lo, 1865. He superintended the
a successful factor in the production of defences of Baltimore harbor from 1865 till
wealth, and believing that connection with
the northern states was greatly detrimental
to the South, he set to work to bring about
a dissolution of the Union. He both wrote
and spoke in favor of secession, but meeting
with little success in Virginia he expatriated
himself and went to South Carolina. Here
he joined the Palmetto Guards and fired the
first shot at Fort Sumter. April 12, 1861.
During the war, despite his age, he saw
military service at Bull Run. assuming all
the duties of a soldier. At the conclusion
1867. Later he was engaged on the im-
provement of the Potomac, near W'ashing-
ton. from 1870 till 1874; that of the Appo-
mattox river, 1870-71 ; and of the Delaware
ii. 1873. He was sent to examine movable
dams and other works in France and Great
Britain in 1877-78. On January 2, 1881, he
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He
was retired as chief of engineers, and died
ii' 1909. He compiled "Army Officer's
Pocket Companion" (Xew York, 1861) ;
translated Dufour"s "Cours de tactiques ;"
cf hostilities, unwilling to survive Southern and jointly with Capt. Mendell, Gen. Jo-
independence and the loss of the labors of a mini's "Precis de I'art de la guerre."
lite, he committed suicide at "Redmoor,"
Pollard, Henry Rives, burn in Nelson
county, Virginia, August 29, 1833, son of Major Richard Pollard and Paulina Cabell Rives, his wife ; was educated at the Vir- ginia Military Institute, and at the Uni- versity of Virginia. He published a news-
the residence of his son Edmund, in the
seventv-sectind year of his age. June 18, 1865
Craighill, William Price, born in Charles- town. Jefferson county, \'irginia, July i, 1833. After attending Charlestown Acad-
emy he entered the United States Military paper in Leavenworth, Kansas, during the
Academy, where he graduated in 1853, sec- troubles in that territory, and later went to
end in a class of fifty-two. He was assigned Washington, where he was employed in the
to the engineer corps, and superintended the postoffice department. At the beginning of
building of Fort Delaware in 1858. He was
made first lieutenant July i, 1859, and served
until 1864 at the military academy as in-
structor, treasurer, and in command of an
engineer detachment. He was made cap-
tain March 3. 1863; constructed defences
for Pittsburgh when it was threatened by
the civil war he was news editor of the
"Baltimore Sun," but removed to Rich-
mond, and he became one of the editors of
the "Richmond Examiner." After the war he
aided in founding "The Richmond Times,"
and for a time was on its stafif. In 1866 he
revived the "Richmond Examiner," and con-
Morgan, and was chief engineer of the mid- trolled its editorial columns until 1867. when
die department from April till June, 1864. he disposed of his interest, and, with his
He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel March brother, E. A. Pollard, established "Southern
13, 1865, for services at Cumberland Gap; Opinion," continuing one of the editors and
was made major November 23 ; served on proprietors until his death. He was shot
the board for carrying out the modifications and killed (August 29, 1868) from an upper
of the New York defences from June 20 till window on the opposite side of the street
