The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee, is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church,
1871 Poster for Sewanee
University Library and Walsh Hall, c. 1905
St. Lukes Hall, c. 1905
All Saints' Chapel
Leonidas Polk
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Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Ep
Sewanee: The University of the South
…railway hub of Chattanooga, Tennessee and the existing railroad spur up the mountain, the "Mountain Goat" which ran from 1858 until April 1985. Bishop Leonidas Polk commented that due to the access to railroads one could reach any point in the South from Sewanee within thirty-six to forty-eight hours. On July 4…
Photograph of Polk in uniform, c. 1863–64
Leonidas Polk
St. John's Church at Ashwood