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Confederate Mass Grave Monument

Confederate Mass Grave Monument from directly overhead

Confederate Mass Grave Monument is a historic site in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 332 m. Green River Knob stands 531 m to the northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Zollicoffer Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway runs past it.

The story

The Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, honors the Confederate soldiers who are buried here and 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, 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, 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 4 feet (1.2 m) by 3 feet (0.91 m), and rests on a 1 foot (0.30 m) high slab of concrete. The Zollie Tree, for which both the Confederate Mass Grave Monument and the nearby General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument 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.

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Dates from 1910.

Wikidata Q1124894, matched on coordinates and name (46 m apart).

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates37.05546, -84.73894

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Potato Knoll: 3.6 mi
  • Rainwater Knob: 4.8 mi
  • Harrison Knob: 5.0 mi
  • Wait Knob: 5.2 mi
  • Denham Knob: 5.4 mi
Parks: 41
  • Zollicoffer Park: 0.0 mi
  • Pulaski County Park: 2.5 mi
  • Public Boat Launch with Parking: 3.6 mi
  • Firebrook Community Park: 4.6 mi
  • Trinity Park: 7.3 mi
Cliffs: 20
Waterfalls: 12
  • Meadow Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Lily Bend Falls: 17.1 mi
  • Little Lily Creek Falls: 17.3 mi
  • Lower Lily Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
  • Upper Lily Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
Historic sites: 8
Attractions: 8
  • Downtown Somerset Welcome: 7.6 mi
  • Tank: 7.8 mi
  • Short Creek Cave: 18.1 mi
  • Short Creek: 18.2 mi
  • The Ritner Swinging Bridge: 19.3 mi
Natural arches: 5
  • Chimney Arch: 18.9 mi
  • Natural Arch: 19.2 mi
  • Nathan McClure Arch: 22.1 mi
  • Nathan McClure Arch 2: 22.2 mi
  • Yahoo Arch: 23.6 mi
Artworks: 3
Nature reserves: 2
  • Buck Creek Wildlife Management Area: 18.3 mi
  • Ping-Sinking Valley Wildlife Management Area: 21.8 mi
Springs: 1
  • Mill Spring: 8.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Confederate Mass Grave Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Green River KnobNW 319°531 m8.9 mi
Dye KnobNNW 328°466 m9.0 mi
Cedar KnobN 359°466 m10.3 mi
Spaw KnobNNW 336°440 m11.2 mi
Bethel KnobN 355°440 m11.9 mi
Tarter KnobNNW 333°433 m9.9 mi
Sugar Hill KnobENE 63°428 m11.5 mi
Clebitt HillS 189°424 m11.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4319:1719:51
June solstice06:2020:2421:03
September equinox07:2719:0319:38
December solstice07:4916:4617:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374149596774787770594841
Precip in4.33.95.14.95.25.05.33.93.73.23.84.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Somerset 2 N, 8 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/8365281800

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