The Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near

Nancy, Kentucky Nancy is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community eight miles west of the city of Somerset, Kentucky, Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The ZIP Code for Nancy is 42544. On January 19, 1862, during the American Civil War, Union force ...

, honors the Confederate soldiers who are buried here who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. These soldiers were from Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and number over one hundred in total. The monument was built in 1910 by

Bennett H. Young Bennett Henderson Young (May 25, 1843 – February 23, 1919) was a Confederate officer who led forces in the St Albans raid (October 19, 1864), a military action during the American Civil War. As a lieutenant of the Confederate States Army, he en ...

, who during the war rode with Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Young was drawn to the area due to hearing about the nearby Zollie Tree, which was decorated by a local woman each Memorial Day in honor of general

Felix K. Zollicoffer Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (May 19, 1812 – January 19, 1862) was an American newspaperman, slave owner, politician, and soldier. A three-term United States Congressman from Tennessee, an officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate States ...

, who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. The monument uses the name "Battle of Fishing Creek", as the battle was known by Southerners in 1910. The rectangular slab of limestone is by , and rest on a high slab of concrete. The Zollie Tree, for which both the Confederate Mass Grave Monument and the nearby

General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument The General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, commemorates the death of Confederate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, who died here at the Battle of Mill Springs. A native of nearby Tennessee, he fought ...

was constructed, was destroyed by lightning in 1995, although a sapling from it was later planted at the same spot. Both are now in what is called Zollicoffer Park, part of the larger Mill Springs Battlefield. On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The aforementioned General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument only a few feet away is another of the so-honored monuments. The other monument on the list in Pulaski County is the Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument north of Somerset, Kentucky.Brent 1997

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File:Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset 2.jpg, Closeup of the monument File:Zollicoffer Park Cemetery.jpg , The burial mounds

References

{{National Register of Historic Places Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Kentucky Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Kentucky 1910 sculptures 1910 establishments in Kentucky Battle of Mill Springs