| Nine Hundred ThirtySixth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Leonidas Polk |
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Leonidas Polk was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the breakaway Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. He was a slaveholding plantation owner in Maury County, Tennessee, US, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk. He resigned his ecclesiastical position to become a major general in the Confederate army.
Polk's funeral service at Saint Paul's Church in Augusta, Georgia, was one of the most elaborate during the war. His friend Bishop Stephen Elliott of Georgia presided at the service, delivering a stirring funeral oration. He was buried in a location under the present-day altar. The church has a monument to the bishop near the altar, and the original grave site can be visited. In 1945, his remains and those of his wife were reinterred at Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. His grave can be found in the front floor sanctuary, to the right of the pulpit. Fort Polk in Louisiana is named in his honor
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