"Their Government has laid heavy taxes on you to carry on this unnatural war, which is openly avowed to be to set at liberty your slaves, and the ensuing steps in which will be to put arms in their hands, and give them political and social equality with yourselves."
Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer
On this date, 150 years ago, Brig Gen Felix Zollicoffer was killed in the battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky, the first major Union victory of the Civil War.
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