Leonidas Polk

Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general originally from Maury County, Tennessee and a cousin of President James K. Polk. He also served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee and was for that reason sometimes known as The Fighting Bishop.

General Polk was one of the founders of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, which he envisioned as a national university for the South and a New World equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge. He moved to Sewanee after the war and occupied a home known ever since as "Rebel's Roost".