Leonidas Lafayette Polk
This is our camp namesake. 

  Leonidas Lafayette Polk, 1837-1892. Military officer. Farmer. First North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture (1877). Founder of the Progressive Farmer (1886), and the N.C. State Advocate. Organizer of  Farmers State Alliance of North Carolina.

   Polkton: Located in the western part of Anson County on US Highway 74, the town is named for Leonidas Lafayette Polk.

   L. L. Polk, native Ansonian and founder of Polkton, is synonymous with education in North Carolina. Because of his daring aspirations, he was instrumental in the founding of North Carolina State University and Meredith College. His agricultural interests led to the publication of The Progressive Farmer magazine.

   This forceful crusader of monumental magnitude, according to speculation, would have won the nomination for President of the United States in 1892.

   The Anson Community College L. L. Polk Campus in Polkton memorializes this brilliant and distinguished patriarch.

Leonidas Polk
This is NOT our camp namesake.

   Leonidas Polk (1806-1864) LGen CSA. Son of William Polk (1758-1844) and Sarah (Hawkins) Polk (1828-1855). Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina from 1821 to 1823, when he transferred to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He graduated in 1827 but, having converted to the Episcopal Church, resigned his commission from the U.S. Army. He became an ordained deacon, and in 1830, married Frances Ann ("Fanny") Devereux (1807-1875) of Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the daughter of John Devereux (1761-1844) and Frances (Pollock) Devereux (1771-1849). Other relatives include Leonidas Polk's nephew, Lucius Eugene Polk (1833-1892), and Leonidas Polk's sister, Susan S. (Polk) Rayner.

   After traveling and living with Frances in various places from Virginia to Louisiana, Leonidas Polk was made bishop of Louisiana in 1841. He became a sugar planter, utilizing a large number of slaves inherited by his wife from the Devereux family of North Carolina. He also helped found the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1857. In 1861, he was appointed major general in the Confederate army; and in 1862, promoted to lieutenant general. He served in independent command under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston. He was killed during the Atlanta campaign on June 14, 1864.