Short answers, pulled from the story.
Leonidas Polk was born on the 10th of April 1806 in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father William served as a Revolutionary War veteran and later became a prosperous planter with Scottish and Anglo-Huguenot ancestry.
Leonidas Polk was the leading founder of the University of the South in Sewanee Tennessee. He envisioned it as a national university for the Southern United States and laid and consecrated the cornerstone for the first building on the 9th of October 1860.
On the 14th of June 1864 Leonidas Polk was killed in action by a U.S. shell at Pine Mountain near Marietta Georgia. The artillery fire targeted a cluster of Confederate generals including Polk Hardee and Johnston when Sherman spotted them in an exposed area.
Leonidas Polk resigned his commission on the 1st of December 1827 to enter the Virginia Theological Seminary. He subsequently became an assistant to Bishop Richard Channing Moore at Monumental Church in Richmond Virginia before being ordained as a priest.
Leonidas Polk was commissioned a major general in the Confederate States Army on the 25th of June 1861. He made his way to Memphis Tennessee to assume command shortly after receiving this appointment.