Pollard, Edward Albert (1831-1872) The first year of the war
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.308 Author/Creator: Pollard, Edward Albert (1831-1872) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 v. : 389 p. ; 23.9 x 15.7 cm. Order a Copy
Written by Pollard, the editor of the "Richmond Examiner," which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Second edition copy printed in New York by Charles B. Richardson at 594 and 596 Broadway. Title page says "reprinted from the Richmond corrected edition." There is also a title page for the 1862 edition, which was printed in Richmond, Virginia by West & Johnson at 145 Main Street. In preface acknowledges assistance from B.M. DeWitt. Preface to second edition of 1863 is also a response to the critics of the book when it was first published. Follows the war from events that lead up to Fort Sumter to the fall of New Orleans. Contains several portrait illustrations throughout. Also has a fold-out map of the Battle of Bull run between pages 106 and 107. This book, along with three other companion volumes (see GLC00267.309) written afterward, is said to comprise the first popular history of the war from the Confederate view. The book contains anti-Davis feeling throughout and is steeped in anti-Northern prejudice.
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