Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy

by Huston Horn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700627502
• ISBN13: 9780700627509
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"