Page 105 - Arkansas Confederate Women

HUSBAND AND FIVE BROTHERS IN THE WAR.

By Mrs. Mahaley Pollard, of Gray.

My husband and five brothers joined the Confederate army
from my old home in Alabama, and I was left with six small
children to support. My husband was severely wounded at Shi-
Myloh, where so many Arkansas soldiers lost their lives.

husband, B. M. Pollard, joined Company D., Twenty-second
Alabama regiment in 1861, and surrendered at Kaliegh, N. C, in
1865. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamau-
ga, Stone Mountain, Murfreesboro, and others, almost all the
time under General Joe Johnston. He died five years after the
close of the war. I am now 69 years old and a widow for 38
years. In 1881 we moved to Woodruff county, Arkansas.

BOUGH TIMES DURING THE WAR

I had a hard time in the war period, as the Northern soldiers
took everything that I had or destroyed what they could not carry

off. They emptied my feather beds and pillows and killed my
cows and hogs, leaving me nothing. How little those rough sol-

diers thought of the hardships they were inflicting upon women

and children. If they imagined such cruel privations as they

generally forced upon Southern women would have the effect of

discouraging them from working in the aid of the Confederacy,
they were sadly mistaken. Our soldiers acted bravely on the

field of battle and we women tried to be worthy of them.