Leonidas Polk Family Papers

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