Mill Springs

• 2012 Target Property at Mill Springs

  

  Across the road sits the 16.4 acre Mill Springs tract that the Civil War Trust is working to save in 2012

  Rob Shenk

• Satellite Image: Target Property at Mill Springs

  

  Satellite overhead view showing the 16.3 acre tract (in yellow) that we are working to save in 2012. This view clearly shows how central this tract is to the Mill Springs battlefield (preserved areas in green).

  Google Earth

• Touring Mill Springs

  

  Civil War Trust members walking the Mill Springs Battlefield. Our 16.4 acre target tract include the barn with the red roof, just across the road.

  Rob Shenk

• Trust Members at Mill Springs

  

  Civil War Trust members pause by a Confederate artillery piece to look at the tract of land that the Civil War Trust is now working to save.

  Rob Shenk

• The Ravine at Mill Springs

  

  View of the ravine at the Mill Springs Battlefield. Confederate forces seeking to attack the Union left march through this ravine. The Civil War Trust worked to save this section of the battlefield.

  Robert Shenk

• Commanding Generals at Mill Springs

  

  Portraits of Gen. George Thomas (USA) and Gen. Felix Zollicoffer (CSA)

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• Cumberland Lake

  

  View of the Cumberland River (now dammed). During the battle, Zollicoffer's forces crossed the river at this site.

  Robert Shenk

• Ed Bearss at Mill Springs

  

  Civil War expert and legendary tour guide Ed Bearss describes the fighting at the Mill Springs battlefield in Kentucky.

  Robert Shenk

• Mill Springs Hill

  

  View of a key section of the Mill Springs battlefield in Kentucky. Confederate forces attacked up this hill and were repulsed by Union forces behind the split rail fence at the summit.

  Robert Shenk

• Mill Springs Fenceline

  

  Gen. Felix Zollicoffer rode up to this fenceline to demand that the troops there stop shooting at their own men. Unfortunately for the nearsighted Zollicoffer, the troops along the fence were Union troops. Zollicoffer and his aide were both killed before they could retreat.

  Robert Shenk

• Fix Bayonets!

  

  From this position, the 9th Ohio led a bayonet charge against the Confederate left which started the general panic in the Confederate ranks.

  Robert Shenk

• Last Stand Hill

  

  View of the hilltop position held by the 17th, 28th, 29th Tennessee and 16th Alabama as they attempted to hold back the surging Federal army.

  Robert Shenk

• Mill Springs Map

  

  Detailed view of a map showing the Battle of Mill Springs.

  Library of Congress

• The Confederate Cemetery

  

  View of some of the graves in the Mill Springs Confederate Cemetery which is located just near the Zollicoffer Monument on the battlefield. The area around the cemetery saw some of the heaviest fighting during the Battle of Mill Springs.

  Robert Shenk

• The Zollicoffer Monument at Mill Springs

  

  View of the Felix Zollicoffer monument on the Mill Springs Battlefield in Kentucky.

  Robert Shenk

• Zollie's Lair

  

  View of the Beech Grove fortified Confederate camp that Felix Zollicoffer and his Confederate forces occupied after crossing over the Cumberland River. Local Unionists, aware of the encroaching Confederates, named this site "Zollie's Lair"

  Robert Shenk

• Mill Springs National Cemetery

  

  View of the Mill Springs National Cemetery. The Union dead from the Battle of Mill Springs were reburied here. The cemetery is near the new Mill Springs Visitor Center.

  Robert Shenk

• Brown-Lanier House at the Mill Springs

  

  The Brown-Lanier house was used both by Gen. Felix Zollicoffer and Gen. George Thomas as their headquarters.

  Robert Shenk