1863 State of Louisiana, Shreveport $50. The note bears the portrait of CSA lieutenant general Leonidas Polk who was also an Episcopalian Bishop. General Polk was instantly killed by a cannon shot at Pine Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia, June 14, 1864. He is one of only four CSA generals pictured on Southern banknotes with Pierre Beauregard, Howell Cobb and Stonewall Jackson being the other three. Leonidas Polk was the founder of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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