Leonidas Polk (April 101806 - June 14, 1864) was a Confederate general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of President James K. Polk. He also served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and was for that reason sometimes known as "The Fighting Bishop". Wikipedia
Standing atop to parapet, Col. William S. Dilworth, acting commander of Findleys Florida Brigade, pointed out to Johnston, Hardee and Polk the Federal works and batteries in the valley below. www.louisville.edu/a-s/history/pat/braggf04.html
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I bet theyll make us take down the stained glass window in my parish celebrating Sewanees founding with a picture of Bishop Polk in it. descant.classicalanglican.net/?p=2126
Biography: Leonidas Polk had gone to West Point (class of 1827) but only months after graduating he dropped out of the army. He entered the Episcopal Church, rising to be a bishop in 1838 and bishop of Louisiana in 1841. His old friend Jefferson Davis f ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=57
Leonidas Polk was an American clergyman and soldier. He was born in 1806 and died in 1864. He was engaged in the service of the Episcopal Church after 1831, and was Bishop of Louisiana from 1841 to 1861. He strongly sympathized with the secession movem www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Leoni...
