On this date, April 10, 1806, Leonidas Lafayette Polk was born. He became
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. He
also became a general in the Confederate Army and was killed, near Marietta, on
Pine Mountain, June 14, 1864.
The details of his death is interesting, but gruesome. General Sherman was at a highpoint in Kennesaw, or Big Shanty, surveying the area through his telescope saw a group of the CSA on Pine Mountain. Sherman instructed his cannoneers close by
to fire a cannon ball near them to scatter the Confederates. They did, and most the men scattered for
covered. But one didn't. Sherman ordered to lob another ball closer. Which they did. The cannon ball hit Polk squarely in the
chest. It was a horrible site.
Not that it matters but Leondias Polk was second cousin to
President James K. Polk.
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