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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the A. D. Pollock Papers, #865, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from A. D. Pollock Gilmour of Leesburg, Va., July 1944.

Received from Elizabeth Gilmour (Mrs. Julian) Lake of Winston-Salem, N.C., September 1973.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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• Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• England--Description and travel.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
• Lee family.
• Mississippi River--Description and travel.
• Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
• Pollock family.
• Pollock, A. D. (Abraham David), 1807-1890.
• Pollock, Thomas Gordon, 1838-1863.
• Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
• Presbyterian Church--Sermons.
• Presbyterian Church--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Richmond (Va.)--Religion--19th century.
• Sermons, American--Virginia--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Biography.
• Virginia--Religion--19th century.
• White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.)--Description and travel.

Abraham David Pollock (sometimes Abram David) (1807-1890) was a Pennsylvania-born Presbyterian minister of Richmond and of Fauquier County, Va. He was educated at Washington College and the Union Seminary of Pennsylvania. In 1832 Pollock left Pennsylvania to begin missionary work in "destitute places" of Virginia. Following Pollock's first church assignment in Culpepper, Va., he moved to Richmond, Va., to take the pulpit of the Shuckoe Hill Church, the largest Presbyterian Church in the state. When his health began to fail in 1841, he took leave from his ministerial duties to vacation in Europe. In the summer of 1843, Pollock resigned his Richmond ministry and moved his family to Fauquier County near Warrington, Va.

Pollock was married to Elizabeth Gordon Lee, daughter of Charles Lee and Margaret Scott Lee. They had six children, Thomas Gordon, Margaret Scott, Elizabeth Hendrick, Roberta, Nannie Lee, and Charles Lee.

Thomas Gordon Pollock (1838-1863), the eldest child of A. D. and Elizabeth Pollock, was born in Richmond, Va., and grew up in Fauquier County, Va. He attended Yale University and the University of Virginia, where he completed law school. Before the Civil war, he practiced law in Morefield and Warrington, Va., and in Shreveport, La. During the war he served as a captain in the Confederate Army in Virginia, participating in the Seven Days' Campaign near Richmond, the Antietam Campaign, and the Gettysburg Campaign, where he was killed.

The collection includes A. D. Pollock's diary of his early ministry in western Virginia, 1832-1833; a journal of a tour of England and the Continent, 1841; and an account of the life of his son, Thomas Gordon Pollock. The collection also includes sermons and sermon notes; scattered Lee and Pollock family correspondence, 1794-1944, about church, personal and business matters; and Thomas Pollock's letters describing trips to the White Sulphur Springs of Virginia (now West Virginia) and down the Mississippi River to Shreveport, La., where he established his law practice, and also his participation in Civil War battles, including the Seven Days' Battles, the Antietam Campaign, and the Gettysburg Campaign. He died in the Battle of Gettysburg. The earliest papers, 1794-1807, are chiefly letters to Charles Lee, discussing financial and legal matters, and include two typed copies of letters between Lee and George Washington regarding Lee's appointment as Attorney General of the United States. Several letters to Charles Lee and one to Alfred Lee, a relative, discuss the sale of slaves. The post-war correspondence is primarily concerned with family affairs and travel. There are also some materials related to the publication of A. D. Pollock's book Life in the Exode.

• Oversize volume (SV-865/7
• Oversize papers (OPF-865/1)