{⋆★⋆} LG Polk, Leonidas

Leonidas Polk​

Born: April 10, 1806

Birthplace: Raleigh, North Carolina

Father: Colonel William Polk 1758 – 1834

(Buried: City Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina)​

Mother: Sarah Hawkins 1784 – 1843

(Buried: City Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina)​

Wife: Frances Ann Deveraux 1810 – 1875

(Buried: Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana)​

Married: May 4, 1830 in Raleigh, North Carolina

Children:

Alexander Hamilton Polk 1831 – 1872​

(Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut)​

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Frances Deveraux Polk Skipwith 1835 – 1884​

(Buried: Oxford Memorial Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi)​

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Katherine Polk Gale 1838 – 1916​

(Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee)​

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Sarah Hawkins Polk Blake 1840 – 1926​

(Buried: Calvary Episcopal Church, Fletcher, North Carolina)​

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Infant Twin Son's Polk 1841 – 1841​

(Buried: Saint John's Church, Ashwood, Tennessee)​

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Susan Rayner Polk Jones 1842 – 1921​

(Buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania)​

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Elizabeth Deveraux Polk Huger 1843 – 1918

(Buried: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana)​

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Dr. William Mecklenburg Polk 1844 – 1918​

(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York)​

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Lucia Rebecca Polk Chapman 1845 – 1930​

(Buried: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania)​

Education:

Attended University of North Carolina, Briefly​

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1827: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (8th​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1827: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, Artillery​

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1827: Resigned from United States Army on December 1st​​

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1830: Ordained a Deacon of the Episcopal Church​

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1831: Ordained a Priest of the Episcopal Church​

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1838 – 1841: Missionary Bishop of Southwest Episcopal Churches​

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1841 – 1864: Louisiana State Episcopal Bishop​

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Leading Founder of University of the South​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Major General of Confederate States Army Infantry​

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1861: Participated in the Battle of Belmont​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Shiloh​

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1862 – 1864: Lt. General of Confederate States Army Infantry​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Stones River​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Chickamuga​

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1863 – 1864: Commander Dept. of Mississippi & East Louisiana​

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1864: Participated in the Georgia Campaign​

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1864: Killed while scouting Union Army in Marietta, Georgia​

Died: June 14, 1864

Place of Death: Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia

Cause of Death: Killed Instantly

Age at time of Death: 58 years old

Burial Place: Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

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Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy by Huston Horn

Leonidas Polk was a graduate of West Point who resigned his commission to enter the Episcopal priesthood as a young man. At first combining parish ministry with cotton farming in Tennessee, Polk subsequently was elected the first bishop of the Louisiana Diocese, whereupon he bought a sugarcane plantation and worked it with several hundred slaves owned by his wife. Then, in the 1850s he was instrumental in the founding of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. When secession led to war he pulled his diocese out of the national church and with other Southern bishops established what they styled the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. Polk then offered his military services to his friend and former West Point classmate Jefferson Davis and became a major general in the Confederate Army.

Polk was one of the more notable, yet controversial, generals of the war. Recognizing his indispensable familiarity with the Mississippi Valley, Confederate president Jefferson Davis commissioned his elevation to a high military position regardless of his lack of prior combat experience. Polk commanded troops in the Battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Meridian as well as several smaller engagements in Georgia leading up to Atlanta. Polk is remembered for his bitter disagreements with his immediate superior, the likewise-controversial General Braxton Bragg of the Army of Tennessee. In 1864, while serving under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, Polk was killed by Union cannon fire as he observed General Sherman's emplacements on the hills outside Atlanta.

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General Leonidas Polk C.S.A.: The Fighting Bishop by Joseph H. Parks

Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War Before the war he was a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk. He also served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and was for that reason known as The Fighting Bishop.

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The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk by Professor Glenn Robins

Leonidas Polk was one of the antebellum South's most significant religious leaders. The son of a wealthy, slaveholding veteran of the Revolutionary War, Polk graduated from West Point in 1827 and seemed destined for martial service. Instead he pursued a ministerial career and was the first Episcopal bishop of Louisiana. Polk attempted to cultivate a religious solidarity among white Southerners of all classes and to broaden the social and cultural appeal of Episcopalianism in the South. Ultimately, Polk's Lost Cause mythmakers developed a public memory of the bishop general that celebrated the virtue of the Christian gentleman who had waged war for Southern independence. A considerable amount of new information on Polk's family, time at West Point, ministry, life as a planter, role with Sewanee, and his place within the pantheon of Lost Cause icons has been brought to light. What emerges is a clearer portrait of the Bishop of the Old South.

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[gentlemanrob]

Happy weekend (Sunday) Birthday Bishop Lt. General Leonidas Polk! Remembering General Polk on his birthday weekend.

 

[GELongstreet]

Polk was second only to Longstreet as far as senority of Lt. Generals.

Only after E. Kirby Smith had become a full General (think in 1864). Smith was the only one with the same date of rank as Longstreet, Polk the next as first of those dated one day later.

 

[ErnieMac]

Perhaps the Confederate generals in the Western theatre should have all formed a Bragg haters club.

I think they did, first meeting shortly after Perryville; expanded after Stone's River.

 

[Pollaco]

Only after E. Kirby Smith had become a full General (think in 1864). Smith was the only one with the same date of rank as Longstreet, Polk the next as first of those dated one day later.

Looks like we were both right. Longstreet and Kirby Smith were confirmed as Lt. Generals on Oct. 9, 1962 and Polk on Oct 10, 1862.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Braxton Bragg spent the better part of two years trying to have Leonidas Polk removed from command with no luck because Polk had the protection of Jefferson Davis. There was no love lost

Sounds like two little spoiled brats fighting over a toy in a playground sandbox.

 

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https://louisiana-anthology.org/303_download/texts/polk--polk_2/polk--polk_vol_2.pdf

Please use above link.

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[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday General Polk.