Sewanee's On-Line History Museum Welcomes You to the Bishop-General Leonidas Polk Memorial Web Site

Leonidas Polk's Family and Relatives in the Confederate States Army:

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"History is not about judging people- it's about understanding the past." -Dr. Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Chief Historian of the National Park Service, Keynote Speech, First Annual Symposium on New Interpretations of the Civil War, Kennesaw State University, January 28, 2005

Confederate Polks:

Alexander Hamilton Polk, William Mecklenburg Polk, Lucius Eugene Polk, Rufus King Polk, Marshal Tate Polk, Captain Trusten Polk, Col. Trusten Polk- Judge-Advocate for Gen. Sterling Price (served as Governor of Missouri and U.S. Senator; Polk Ave. named in his honor), Col. Edward Dillon (rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry through Mount Pleasant; met Leonidas Polk's niece Francis Anne "Fanny" Polk at Hamilton Place, married after the War), etc...

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Brig.-Gen. Lucius E. Polk.

Brigadier-General Lucius E. Polk, nephew of Leonidas Polk, son of William Polk, incorrectly identified as General William Tucker at the Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, as of February 2005.

Chickamauga Battlefield-

Polk's Brigade (Brigadier-General Lucius E. Polk).

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(Atlanta Campaign)
DALLAS, GEORGIA
25 - 27 May 1864
Allatoona Hills
New Hope Church

(http://members.fortunecity.com/thegunny1/dallas_ga_25may64.htm; viewed 8/7/05.)

Confederate Forces (excerpt- Cleburne's Div. only.)

Army of Tennessee

GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON

Hardee’s Corps

LIEUTENANT GENERAL WILLIAM JOSEPH HARDEE

Cleburne's Division - Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne

Escort - Captain C. F. Sanders

Polk's Brigade - Brigadier General Lucius Eugene Polk

1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment

15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment

5th Confederate Infantry Regiment

2nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment

35th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

48th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

Brigadier-General William Feimster Tucker, unrelated by blood to Leonidas Polk: brigadier rank from March 1, 1864; North Carolinian; educated at William and Henry College in Virginia; moved to Mississippi; fought at First Manassas, then company transferred to the West; fought on the same battlefields with Leonidas Polk at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Resaca; assassinated on September 14, 1881 in Okolona, Mississippi. (GENERALS IN GRAY, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Ezra J. Warner, 1959, 1965)

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First Lieutenant William Polk, 48th Tennessee Infantry, is the son of confederate Brigadier General Lucius Polk and great-nephew of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk. At the Battle of Ezra Church, half the men in his brigade are killed or wounded (Kennesaw Battlefield National Park).

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From the Rosana A. Blake Library of Confederate History (http://www.marshall.edu/speccoll/blake/P-Q-PAM.html, January 2005)-

Polk, J.M., Capt. "Memories of the Lost Cause, stories & adventures of a Confederate Soldier in General R.E. Lee's Army, 1861-1865, & ten years in South America, its resources, trade& commerce, & business & social intercourse with other countries." Austin, TX, 1905, 8vo, 46pp. First pub. In the weekly mag. "State Topics", Austin, TX. (WP 469)

Polk, Leonidas, Gen. "The Career of General Leonidas Polk. The soldier who abandoned the Army for the Church." The New York Tribune's review of Dr. Wm. M. Polk's book. In: SHSP, 1893, v.21, p. 321-326. (WP 475a)

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More Polk Family (non-C.S.A.):

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James K. Polk, eleventh President of these United States-

Georgia Historical Commission marker 115-1A (1953), Courthouse, Cedartown, Georgia-

POLK COUNTY

Created December 20, 1851 and named for President James Knox Polk, Cedartown is fittingly named for the trees which flourish in this beautiful valley. The city is a railroad center, has a thriving textile industry, and a large paper mill.
Rockmart, thirteen miles to the east, has textile mills that give the area much employment and a large payroll, and as well is the center of portland cement production.