I70 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

battalion comprised of artillery, engineers and infantry, fully ofiicered, together with the band left our shores under the command of Major G L. Dogherty, and arrived at Sussex during the afternoon, where they brigaded with the troops already on the field.

On July Ist, after dinner, at half-past one, the battalion fell in, in full marching order, and drilled with the other battalions. There were five battalions of infantry, two battalions of artillery and a squadron ofcavalry. Theywent through all the manoeuvres that are to be gone through, in presence of the Commander-in- chief, the Governor General.

On the 2nd, the whole force by eleven o’clock was drawn up in review order. When His Excellency arrived he was received with a general salute, after which he witnessed the feu- dt-joie, march- -past in column of companies, and other manoeuvres, with which he expressed himself highly gratified. The fine soldierly appearance of the Island battalion during the while excited general admiration; they were specially complimented by Major General Luard for their steadiness and discipline. Reaching the city on the evening following, the battalion marched through Charlottetown streets to the tune of “ Home Sweet Home,” and were dismissed on entering the drill shed, where a large number of citizens had assembled to bid them welcome.

Meanwhile, here at Fort Edward, at the hour of twelve o’,clock noon, on Dominion day, the first discharge of a Royal salute fell heavily on the ears of visitors to Victoria Park; then another, and another, till the number of twenty one had been reached. With this. brief performance just rendered, the military career of the oldest officer in connection with the Island service, terminated. In the year 1838, James B. Pollard, ——the subject of our rcmarks,—entered the militia artillery of Charlottetown, under command of Major Thomas Robinson, when he received a training under the instruction of a sergeant of the royal artillery at George’s Battery, 1n common with other young men of the corps. But during the following year he retired from that corps, joining an infantry company under Captain W H. Lobban, in which branch he continued until 1859, when together with Major Morris, then a young man who had served some years in the service were commissioned to raise and disciple within the limits of the city a battery of