Mike Polawski

Mike Polawski was a coal miner and artilleryman of the 44th New York, who was transported to Valdennia through the Tunnel of Light.

His commander Pat O'Donald commented that Polawski '[c]ame out of Scranton, just before the war. Only Pole in the battery, but a good Catholic boy nevertheless.' When the Yankees sought a reliable source of coal in the lead-up to the Tugar War, Colonel Keane ordered Polawski to get some men and to check a potential site where the Rus reported seeing 'devil rock', black rocks and a smoking hole, believed to be 'the hole into hell'.