Camp Zollicoffer, located in Overton County is a Confederate induction and training base. It was established in the summer of 1861 and prepared thousands of soldiers for military life. Officers named this camp for General Felix K. Zollicoffer, a prominent Tennessee political leader and newspaperman, who died in Kentucky at the Battle of Mill Springs in January 1862.   

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