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The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry And Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk. Mercer Univ Pr, 2006. ISBN 0881460389 ISBN 978-0881460384; Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4. Smith, Derek. The Gallant Dead: Union & Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA ...
American Civil War. Battle of Gettysburg; Leonidas Lafayette Polk (April 24, 1837 – June 11, 1892), or L.L. Polk, was an American farmer, journalist and political ...
Variant of the Polk pattern flag. Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk commanded the corps from November 26, 1862, and held it with minor interruptions until his relief on September 29, 1863, and subsequent arrest on October 23, 1863. [1] It participated in the Tennessee Campaign (June to October 1863) under General Braxton Bragg.
Moreover, their bishops, James Hervey Otey of Tennessee and Leonidas Polk of Louisiana, died during the war. The first general council was held November 12–22, 1862, at Saint Paul's Church in Augusta, Georgia. Many bishops also gathered for Polk's funeral at that same church in June 1864, at which Presiding Bishop Elliott preached. Another ...
During the later stages of the battle on April 6, Col. Lindsay was tasked by General Leonidas Polk with gathering all the Confederate cavalry on the field and cutting off the Union troops' line of retreat. [4] The Battalion was reorganized as a regiment after the battle and designated the First Mississippi Cavalry.
The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861, in Mississippi County, Missouri.It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk.
Death of Lieutenant General Polk [ edit ] On June 14, 1864, Confederate General Leonidas Polk , second cousin of former United States president James K. Polk was scouting enemy positions near Marietta, Georgia with his staff when he was killed in action by a Federal 3-inch (76 mm) shell at Pine Mountain . [ 1 ]
Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk led the Confederate forces that opposed the Meridian expedition. He withdrew his infantry into Alabama without any major fighting. [1] The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Meridian campaign (3 February – 6 March 1864) during the American Civil War. Order of battle was compiled from ...