Death
Polk died on January 14, 1834, at his home in Raleigh.
His obituary in the January 21, 1834, issue of the Raleigh Register contained the following:
Colonel Polk was at his death the sole surviving field officer of the North Carolina Line; and it will be no disparagement to the illustrious dead to say that no one of his compatriots manifested deeper or more ardent devotion to the cause of his country; that in her service no officer more gallantly exposed his life or more cheerfully endured privation and suffering, and that no one of his rank in the army contributed more by his personal services to bring that glorious contest to a successful end.
- —The Raleigh Register, January 21, 1834, quoted by Marshall DeLancey Haywood
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