Felix Zollicoffer

Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was an American newspaperman, slave owner, politician, and soldier. He was three-term U.S. representative from Tennessee, an officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War; he led the first Confederate invasion of eastern Kentucky and was killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs. Zollicoffer was the first Confederate general to die in the Western Theater.