...ton says: I have seen lately what is purported to be an account of General Polk's death, probably that to which you refer, for it is an invention from beginning to end. Bate's division, of Hardee 's corps, occupied the summit of Pine Mount as an outpost. As it was nearly a mile in front of our line, General Hardee thought it exposed, and I agreed to ride to it with him and decide the questio...