General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument

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General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument at Nancy , Kentucky, Kentucky

The General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument is a memorial in Pulaski County , near Nancy , Kentucky in the United States . It commemorates Confederate General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer , who died here in the Battle of Mill Springs . Zollicoffer came from Tennessee and, like Robert Edward Lee, fought for the Confederate more out of a sense of duty to his state than out of an interest in the cause of the southern states. Zollicoffer was killed because he was unaware he was approaching Union lines.

The memorial was erected in 1910 by Bennett H. Young . This had ridden in the Civil War with Confederate General John Hunt Morgan . Every year on Memorial Day , a Nancy girl named Dorotha Burton decorated an oak tree in honor of Zollicoffer. This inspired Young to put the memorial just a few feet from the tree. The tree was destroyed by lightning in the 1990s ; a seedling of the tree was planted in its place.

The monument is a 2.5 m high obelisk made of rough-hewn limestone . The inscription not only commemorates Zollicoffer, but also commemorates the other Confederate soldiers who died at the Battle of Mill Springs.

On July 17, 1997, the General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument, along with 60 other memorials related to the Kentucky Civil War , was entered on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission . Just a few meters away is the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset . The Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument north of Somerset is the third of these war memorials in Pulaski County.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nancy, Ky. ( English ) WMTH Corporation. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  2. ^ A b c Joseph E. Brent: General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument ( English ). Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997.
  3. ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 12, 2016
  4. ^ Joseph E. Brent: National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865–1935 (PDF (1.81 MB)) National Park Service. January 8, 1997. Retrieved May 2009.

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