Greene County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pollard, Rufus August 29, 1861
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Daily Dispatch, Richmond, Va., 9 September 1861
Distressing accident.

On Thursday, the 29th instant, Mr. Rufus Pollard, a young man, shot himself 
accidentally at Union Point, on the Georgia Railroad.  It seemed that he 
snapped a cap on his pistol, and failing to fire, he put on a new one, and 
while doing so, the powder in the pistol took fire and exploded, the ball 
striking through the hand and body near his heart.  He lingered for a few 
moments and expired.
He had  just set aside his text books and quit the school-room, and was 
arranging to depart for Virginia to serve his beloved South.

The Atlanta Intelligencer.

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