Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset

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Confederate mass grave in Somerset, Nancy, Kentucky

The Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset in Pulaski County near Nancy in Kentucky , United States, honors the soldiers of the Confederate States Army who died at the Battle of Mill Springs . These more than a hundred soldiers buried here were from Alabama , Mississippi, and Tennessee .

The war memorial, like the nearby General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument, was built in 1910 by Bennett H. Young , who rode with Confederate General John Hunt Morgan during the Civil War . Young had chosen the location when he became aware of the so-called Zollie Tree , which a young woman decorates every year on Memorial Day in honor of Felix K. Zollicoffer . This was killed at the Battle of Mill Springs . (The memorial uses the name Battle of Fishing Creek , as southern residents knew the battle that way in 1910.) The rectangular flagstone measures three by four feet (about 0.9 by 1.2 m) and sits on one foot (about 30 cm) high concrete foundation.

The tree that indirectly led to the erection of the two monuments was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1995 . A seedling of this tree was later planted in the same location in Zollicoffer Park. This park is part of the Mill Springs Battlefield .

On June 17, 1997, the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset was registered with 60 other war memorials in Kentucky as a Multiple Property Submission in the National Register of Historic Places . The above-mentioned monument in honor of Felix Zollicoffers, which is only a few meters away, is also among these 60 war memorials. In Pulaski County is yet another of these monuments on this list, which is north of Somerset lying Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument .

gallery

  • Detail of the monument

  • The burial mounds

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nancy, Ky. ( English ) WMTH Corporation. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  2. ^ A b Joseph E. Brent: Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset ( English ). Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997.
  3. ↑ Mill Springs Battlefield ( English ) The Blue and Gray Trail. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  4. Jump up ↑ Joseph E. Brent: National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935 ( English , PDF (1.81 MB)) National Park Service. January 8, 1997. Retrieved May 29, 2009.

Coordinates: 37 ° 3 ′ 20 "  N , 84 ° 44 ′ 22"  W.