POLK, LUCIUS EUGENE, soldier, state senator, was born July 10, 1833, in Salisbury, N. C. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate army as a private under Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, but was soon commissioned first lieutenant. He was rapidly promoted until he was made brigadier-general in 1862. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national democratic convention at Chicago, and in 1887 became a member of the senate of the state of Tennessee.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
