Confederate General Leonidas Polk

Author : Cheryl H. White PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238693
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate General Leonidas Polk written by Cheryl H. White PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonidas Polk is one of the most fascinating figures of the Civil War. Consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church and commissioned as a general into the Confederate army, Polk's life in both spheres blended into a unique historical composite. Polk was a man with deep religious convictions but equally committed to the Confederate cause. He baptized soldiers on the eve of bloody battles, administered last rites and even presided over officers' weddings, all while leading his soldiers into battle. Historian Cheryl White examines the life of this soldier-saint and the legacy of a man who unquestionably brought the first viable and lively Protestant presence to Louisiana and yet represents the politics of one of the darkest periods in American history.

Author : William Mecklenburg Polk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General written by William Mecklenburg Polk and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Howard Parks
Publisher : [Baton Rouge] : Louisiana State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Leonidas Polk, C.S.A., the Fighting Bishop written by Joseph Howard Parks and published by [Baton Rouge] : Louisiana State University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first full-length life of General Leonidas Polk, 'Bishop-militant' of the Confederacy, since the biography published by his son more than a half-century ago. It is the story of a man whose deeds of peace were no less than his feats of war. The first Episcopal bishop of Louisiana and the Southwest and founder of the University of the South ('Sewanee'), Polk climaxed his career as one of the foremost figures of the Confederacy. Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1806. He attended West Point, where he became a friend of Jefferson Davis. Turning from the military to the ministry after graduation, Polk won the praise of the Episcopal Church for his abilities in directing and organizing, and was eventually comissioned missionary bishop of the Southwest. However, so great was his belief in the cause of the South -- that each state was independent and could secede if it chose -- that with the approach of the Civil War he announced the secession his diocese, left the embryo university he was building, his Louisiana bishopric and episcopacy, and 'buckled the sword over the gown'. He accepted appointment as major general in the Provisional Army of the Confederacy in late June, 1861, and was assigned to command Department No. 2 with headquarters at Memphis. He soon led his froces into Kentucky and occupied Columbus. When Generals A.S. Johnston and P.G.T Beauregard were assigend to the West, Polk became subordinate to them. He commanded a corps at Shiloh, a wing in the Kentucky campaign, a corps at Stone's River, and a wing at Chickamauga. Disagreement with General Bragg after Chickamauga resulted in Polk's relief from command in the Army of the Tennessee and his transfer to Mississippi. When J.E. Johnston succeeded Bragg in North Georgia, Polk's force was ordered to his assistance. The Bishop-General was killed at Pine Mountain on June 14, 1864"--Jacket.

Author : Huston Horn
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700627502
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonidas Polk written by Huston Horn and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Mecklenburg Polk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonidias Polk, Bishop and General written by William Mecklenburg Polk and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William M Polk M D
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477620373
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonidas Polk; Bishop and General written by William M Polk M D and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1915, this is a new edition of the 1893 volume 2 edition. A biography of Confederate General and Episcopalian Bishop, Leonidas Polk. Written by his son William Mecklenburg Polk, M.D.

Author : Joseph Howard Parks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Leonidas Polk written by Joseph Howard Parks and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Howard PARKS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Leonidas Polk, C.S.A., the Fighting Bishop. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]. written by Joseph Howard PARKS and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amanda Low Warren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476652384
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Cross written by Amanda Low Warren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk was a distinguished West Point graduate, the first Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, a university founder, and a Confederate commander beloved by his troops, esteemed by the public, and killed on the field of battle. In spite of his many accomplishments, historians invariably disparage Polk's generalship and even his personal character--but is their treatment fair or accurate? This work employs a balanced perspective to shed new light on Polk's military leadership and reveal unexpected truths that explain his conflict with General Braxton Bragg. A seemingly insignificant piece of correspondence, along with an exploration of both men's writings, coalesce into an understanding of the root cause of the command dysfunction and chronic failures of the Army of Tennessee.

Author : John D. Winters
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117255
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Louisiana written by John D. Winters and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history fills an important gap in the story of the Civil War. Too often the war waged west of the Mississippi River has been given short shrift by historians and scholars, who have tended to focus their attention on the great battles east of the river. This book looks in detail at the military operations that occurred in Louisiana—most of them minor skirmishes, but some of them battles and campaigns of major importance. The Civil War in Louisiana begins with the first talk of secession in the state and ends with the last tragic days of the war. John D. Winters describes with great fervor and detail such events as the fall of Confederate New Orleans and the burning of Alexandria. In addition to military action, Winters discusses the political, economic, and social aspects of the war in Louisiana. His accounts of battles and the men who waged them provide a fuller story of Louisiana in the Civil War than has ever before been told.