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Leonidas Polk attended the University of North Carolina from 1821 to 1823 before entering West Point. Consecrated bishop of Louisiana in 1841, he enslaved more than 400 people on his Leighton plantation there, became a Confederate lieutenant general, and was killed at Pine Mountain in June 1864.
Source: NCpedia: Polk, Leonidas (Nathaniel C. Hughes Jr., revised 2022)
1806–1864 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of the Denmark family, 1861 to 1966, gathered by Leonidas Polk Denmark (1892 to 1964), grandson of the farm leader Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837 to 1892). They cover Polk's agricultural journalism, the Farmers' Alliance and Populist politics, the Civil War, World War I and the 1918 influenza. Hillsborough appears among the places.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864.
Papers of the Pollock and Devereux families, 1712 to 1892, among the largest landowners and enslavers in antebellum North Carolina. The small lot includes Pollock papers from before and after the two families joined, plantation and farm management papers, lists of enslaved people, and Confederate supply and quartermaster material. Orange County enters through the Haw Fields.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864.
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