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[Identification of item], in the Leonidas Polk Papers, #2965, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Barney, Charles R.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers.
• Episcopal Church--Bishops--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gale family.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Hawkins family.
• Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Murphey, Archibald D. (Archibald De Bow), 1777-1832.
• North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Polk family.
• Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864.
• Polk, William Mecklenburg, 1844-1918.
• Polk, William, 1758-1834.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States. Continental Army--Officers.
• University of the South--History.

• See also Polk and Yeatman family papers (#606), Gale and Polk family papers (#266) at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• See also Polk materials at the University of the South.

Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate lieutenant-general, was the grandson of Thomas Polk, who fought in the American Revolution, and the son of William Polk (1758-1834), colonel during the Revolution, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina Supervisor of Internal Revenue, University of North Carolina trustee, bank director, and surveyor and owner of lands in Tennessee. Leonidas Polk was related to the Gale, Hawkins, and Yeatman families. Among his children was medical doctor William Mecklenburg Polk, who wrote "Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General."

MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence and other papers of Leonidas Polk relating to his life and work; Episcopal Church matters; the establishment of the University of the South, 1856-1861; and the Confederate campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, 1861-1864, in which Polk was involved. Also included are papers of William Mecklenburg Polk, chiefly concerning the biography of his father; papers of members of the Polk, Gale, and Hawkins families; correspondence of Charles R. Barney, 1857-1860, engineer for the board of trustees of the University of the South, about the physical development of the University site; and copies of Archibald D. Murphey's papers relating to William Polk.