Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This black and white illustration is of Leonidas Polk, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, who resigned his ecclesiastical position to become a major-general in the Confederate States Army. Polk is depicted as wearing a dark, double-breasted military uniform with a high collar that is lined with stars. The artist is identified along the bottom of the illustration and Polk's signature is depicted beneath the illustration. This illustration is from volume five of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Publication Date
1890
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Publisher
New York : The Century Co
Time Period
1890-1899
Subjects
Polk, Leonidas, 1806 – 1864
Object Type
image
Format (original)
illustration
Format (digital)
JPG
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V5_L-Polk_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 35
Repository
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
"Illustration, Leonidas Polk" (1890). Images. 242.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/242