Pollard, Henry Moses
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 27, credited to Ludlow, VT Unit(s): 8th VT INF Service: comn 1LT, Co. I, 8th VT INF, 7/12/63 (8/14/63), pr CPT, Co. I, 1/7/63 (12/5/63), pr MAJ, 4/6/65 (4/26/65), m/o 6/28/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 06/14/1836, Plymouth, VT Death: 02/24/1904 Burial: Edgewood Cemetery, Chillicothe, MO Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Bruce & Sandi Pouliot Findagrave Memorial #: 55254598 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 2/1/1904, MO, not approved Portrait?: Gibson Collection, Jones Collection, VHS Collections, 8th Vermont Infantry Regimental History College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   Edgewood Cemetery, Chillicothe, MO Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
VHS - Reunion Society Collection
VHS - Portrait Files (FPO)
John Gibson Collection
Dewey Jones Collection
Biography
Pollard, Henry M., was born at Plymouth, June 14, 1836; received a common school and academic education, graduating in 1857 at the scientific department of Dartmouth College; served in Union army during the war as major of the 8th Regt. Vt. Vols.; located in Chillicothe, Mo., in the fall of 1865, and has since resided there, practicing law; was elected a representative from Missouri in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Source: Jacob G. Ullery, compiler, Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, (Transcript Publishing Company, Brattleboro, VT, 1894), Part III, p. 126.
BIOGRAPHY
Major H. M. Pollard settled in Missouri after he retired from the army, and very soon became a leading lawyer in the courts. He represented Missouri one term in congress, and then took up his residence in St. Louis.
Source: 8th Vermont Infantry Regimental History off-site page 260