The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/09/2006
Leonidas Polk was one of the antebellum South's most significant religious leaders. The son of a wealthy, slaveholding veteran of the Revolutionary War, Polk graduated from West Point in 1827 and seemed destined for martial service. Instead he pursued a ministerial career and was the first Episcopal bishop of Louisiana. Polk attempted to cultivate a religious solidarity among white Southerners of all classes and to broaden the social and cultural appeal of Episcopalianism in the South. Ultimately, Polk's Lost Cause mythmakers developed a public memory of the bishop general that celebrated the virtue of the Christian gentleman who had waged war for Southern independence. A considerable amount of new information on Polk's family, time at West Point, ministry, life as a planter, role with Sewanee, and his place within the pantheon of Lost Cause icons has been brought to light. What emerges is a clearer portrait of the Bishop of the Old South.
- ISBN:
- 9780881460384
- 9780881460384
- Category:
- Biography: historical
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-09-2006
- Publisher:
- Mercer University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 243
- Dimensions (mm):
- 236x161x24mm
- Weight:
- 0.54kg
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