Leonidas Polk Family Papers

Letters: March 23, 1861

1861 Mar. 23| Bishop Polk and Bishop Elliott, University Place, to the Bishops of the Confederate Diocese, re: a consultation among the Diocese of the Confederate States for the purpose of considering their relations to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; strong feelings of such a conference because of the rapid march of events and the change which has taken place in civil relations. 4 pp.

14 Bishops Polk & Elliott March 23 1861

University Place Franklin Cy. Tenn. March 23 1861

Rt Rev & Dear Sir

The rapid march of Events and the change which has taken place in our civil relations seem to us, your Brethren in the Episcopate, to require an early consultation among the Dioceses of the Confederate States for the purpose of considering their relations to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of which they have so long been the equal and happy members