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September 21, 1861 - Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk is assigned to the command of the 1st (or Western) Division, the Confederate Dept. No. 2, TN.
Leonidas Polk
When the war came, Polk's friendship with West Point classmate Jefferson Davis won him a commission as a major general in the Confederate States Army. He had...
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