Leonidas Polk

[Jim Klag]

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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[Jim Klag]

The Fighting Bishop

Leonidas Polk’s pious past couldn’t keep him from being one of the South’s worst generals.

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[Jim Klag]

Leonidas Polk: Southern Civil War General

Union artillery brought a deadly end to the career of clergyman-turned-soldier Leonidas Polk.

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[5fish]

I found the link to Leonidas early life before the war. He did missionary work and even went to Europe... it a good summary of his early years... it ends as he joins the Confederate army... there a photo of a young Leonidas Polk too...

Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Leonidas Polk was the first bishop in the Episcopal ministry to serve Arkansas, and he also served as a Confederate general during the Civil War. In addition, he was the second cousin of President James K. Polk and helped found the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Leonidas Polk was...

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[5fish]

Old @O' Be Joyful a Cincinnati church and Leonidas Polk...

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The cathedral’s stained-glass window, a gift from a Lee descendant, shows Lee receiving a blessing from Virginia Bishop William Meade. Greenwell also pointed to the cathedral’s plaque honoring Leonidas Polk, who was consecrated in 1838 in Cincinnati and served as the missionary bishop of the Southwest.

Polk, one of the founders of Sewanee: The University of the South, was bishop of Louisiana when he served as a Confederate general. He was known to wear his Episcopal vestments over his military uniform, “a thoroughly offensive merge of his professed faith and his fervor to see the institution of slavery endure,” Greenwell said.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Old @O' Be Joyful a Cincinnati church and Leonidas Polk...

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The cathedral’s stained-glass window, a gift from a Lee descendant, shows Lee receiving a blessing from Virginia Bishop William Meade. Greenwell also pointed to the cathedral’s plaque honoring Leonidas Polk, who was consecrated in 1838 in Cincinnati and served as the missionary bishop of the Southwest.

Polk, one of the founders of Sewanee: The University of the South, was bishop of Louisiana when he served as a Confederate general. He was known to wear his Episcopal vestments over his military uniform, “a thoroughly offensive merge of his professed faith and his fervor to see the institution of slavery endure,” Greenwell said.

And he "caught" a cannon-ball, which permanently glazed his reputation for evermore.

IIRC all have been removed and put into storage.