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