Mill Springs National Cemetery
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Mill Springs National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Nancy, eight miles west of the city of Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. It encompasses 6.3 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 3,011 interments.
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[edit] History
The site of Mill Springs National Cemetery was originally the battlefield cemetery of the Battle of Mill Springs, Sunday 19 January 1862, initially designated Logan's Cross Roads Cemetery. Soldiers who fell in the battle were buried in large trenches. After the Civil War, it became an official National Cemetery and had its name changed. Many battlefield cemeteries in the region had their remains transferred to Mill Springs.
Zollicoffer Park, a brief distance away from the Federal cemetery, is the Confederate cemetery, and is noted for its mass grave. Every Memorial Day, and every January 19th, it gets far more attention than the Federal cemetery, even though no disrespect is meant.
In 1867, additional land was donated to the federal government for the cemetery by William H. Logan, and he and his wife were buried in the cemetery upon their deaths.
Mill Springs National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Mill Springs National Cemetery was on the list of the first National Cemeteries created. Small as it is, the cemetery still receives burials. It the oldest still-open National Cemetery (without the rules associated with the other, Arlington National Cemetery).
[edit] Notable interments
- Sergeant Brent Woods, Medal of Honor recipient for action in New Mexico Territory during the Indian Wars.
