Obituary of Harold Borland, Pulaski Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Bill Bogges Date: 15 Feb 2006 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** (Transcribed 02/17/06) Copy from Arkansas History Commission The Arkansas Gazette ONE HUNDRED-EIGHTH YEAR Friday: July 22, 1921: p 7, c 3 Obituary MAJOR HAROLD BORLAND Civil War Veteran and Pioneer Arkansas Dies at Confederate Home. Maj Harold Borland, aged 86, son of the late United States Senator Solon Borland and a member of one of the pioneer families of Arkansas, died at the Confederate Home late Wednesday night. Major Borland was a graduate from West Point in 1860, and the following year a first lieutenant, resigned from the United States army to enlist with his father in the Confederate army. His father was a major in the cavalry. He was appointed a lieutenant in the Confederate army and at the termination of war was promoted to rank of major. He was held as a prisoner in Fortress Monroe, but just before the struggle ended was returned in an exchange of prisoners. Major Borland's wife died about 20 years ago. He is survived by two sons, Russell Borland of Little Rock and Charles Borland, a veteran of the World war. The latter's whereabouts are not known. The body is held at the parlor's of Healy & Roth pending the completion of funeral arrangements. [Harold Borland is buried in Little Rock National Cemetery, Confederate # 1001] ========================================================================== Copy from The United States Military Academy who furnished the following: Recrology HAROLD BORLAND No 1887 -- Class 1860 Died July 20, 1921, at Little Rock, Arkansas, aged 86 years. Harold Borland was born in North Carolina, September 18, 1835. His father was Solon Borland, an officer in the Mexican War. State Senator from Arkansas, and an officer in the Confederate Service, dying while a Colonel, commanding the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. Harold Borland entered the Military Academy July 1, 1854 and was graduated July 1,1860, and commissioned a Brevet Second Lieutenant of Infantry. He served at Newport Barracks, Kentucky, under Major Sidney Burbank, and resigned March 31, 1861. He went at once to the provisional seat of the Confederate Government at Montgomery, Alabama, and tendered his services in person to President Davis. He was commissioned a Major and reported to General Braxton Bragg a Pensacola, Florida, where he served with the Engineers and with the Quartermaster Department. He was, for a time Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of General Slaughter, and while serving as such was, August 16, 1863, captured aboard the "Alice Vivian", which was endeavoring to run the blockade from Mobile to Havana with 550 bales of cotton. He was held prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, until exchanged on October 1, 1864. He rejoined his command and served to the end of the war, getting with General Slaughter, after the general surrender, to Matamoros, Mexico. They returned later by way of Brownsville, Texas to New Orleans, where General E Kirby Smith secured their paroles. After the war he resided in Arkansas. He taught school for a while and later employed in the United States Revenue Service. He was twice married, both wives being dead. He had two sons in the service during the World War --- one in the Navy, the other a machine gunner who went through the entire campaign on the Western Front in France from July 18 to November 11, 1918. In his later years he was an inmate of the Confederate Veteran's Home at Sweet Home, Pulaski County, Arkansas. W R