Leonidas Polk

Confederate general in the American Civil War

1806 CE to 1864 CE

Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) is a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk.

He also serves as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and is for that reason known as The Fighting Bishop.

Polk is one of the more controversial political generals of the war, elevated to a high military position with no prior combat experience because of his friendship with Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

He fights as a corps commander in many of the major battles of the Western Theater, but is remembered more for his bitter disagreements with his immediate superior, Gen. Braxton Bragg of the Army of Tennessee, than for his success in combat.

He is killed in action in 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign.

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