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On January 19, 1862, Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer led the Confederate States Army into battle against Brigadier General George Thomas and the United States Army near Nancy, Kentucky. Nearly two hundred soldiers lost their lives during the battle (which would later come to be known as the Battle of Mill Springs), and many of their bodies were interred in a mass grave on the battlefield.
In the days and weeks that followed, the Battle of Mill Springs, which swung decisively toward the Union, came to be recognized as the first significant victory for the United States Army in the American Civil War.
Today, the spirits of those who perished on the site are still said to roam the Mill Springs Battlefield—especially Zollicoffer Park, where the mass grave is located. Indeed, many locals have purportedly seen Civil War-era soldiers wandering along Highway 235, which runs parallel to Zollicoffer Park, after nightfall.
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