"Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy " Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 Feb 2019 4:23 p.m. PST |
"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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| Rudysnelson | 06 Feb 2019 5:40 p.m. PST |
Several Confederate Generals were Presbyterian ministers. Not just Polk. Ministers from other denominations served on both sides. |
| 21eRegt | 06 Feb 2019 6:38 p.m. PST |
Didn't know about this book. I'll have to watch out for it. |
| clibinarium | 07 Feb 2019 5:52 a.m. PST |
"Shust, teeckle them fellers" |
| Tango01 | 07 Feb 2019 9:02 p.m. PST |
And how they managed as Generals?… Amicalement
Armand |
Normal Guy  | 10 Feb 2019 5:09 a.m. PST |
One of the best generals the Union had. |
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adds artillery to his soft-plastic Union forces.