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POLK, LEONIDAS (1806-1864) , American soldier, was born at Raleigh, North Carolina, on the loth of April 1806, and was a cousin
Knox Polk, president of the United States. He was educated at West Point, but afterwards studied theology and took orders in the Protestant
Indian Territory, Louisiana, Alabama
work
establishment
educational institutions in the South. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he resigned his bishopric and, like many other clergymen and ministers of religion, entered the army which was raised to defend the Confederacy. His rank in the hierarchy and the universal respect in which he was held in the South, rather than his early military education, caused him to be appointed to the important rank of major-general. He fortified the post of Columbus, Kentucky, the foremost line of defence on the Mississippi, against which Brigadier-General U. S. Grant directed the offensive reconnaissance of Belmont in the autumn. In the following spring , the first line of defence having fallen, Polk commanded a corps at Shiloh in the field army commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston and Beauregard. In October 1862 he was promoted lieutenant-general, and thenceforward he commanded one of the three corps of the army of Tennessee under Bragg
Alabama
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