Felix Kirk Zollicoffer 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 brigadier general during the American Civil War; he led the first Confederate invasion of eastern Kentucky and was killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs. Zollicoffer was the first Confederate general to die in the Western Theater.
Felix Zollicoffer
Site of Zollicoffer's death at Mill Springs Battlefield, Nancy, Kentucky.
"First in the fight and first in the arms of the white winged angel of glory, with his hero heart at the feet of God and his wounds to tell the story" —grave of General Felix K. Zollicoffer at Nashville City Cemetery.
The Battle of Mill Springs, also known as the Battle of Fishing Creek in the Confederacy, and the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads or Battle of Somerset in the Union, was fought in Wayne and Pulaski counties, near current Nancy, Kentucky, on January 19, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. The Union victory concluded an early Confederate offensive campaign in south central Kentucky.
Battle of Somerset, or Mill Spring Harper's Weekly, February 8 1862
Shooting of Confederate general Zollicoffer by Colonel Fry