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Felix Zollicoffer, who was 49 when he was killed at Mill Springs, served briefly in the U.S. Army in his younger days, but it was as a newspaper editor and politician that the native of Maury County, Tenn., had established his lofty reputation before the war. (PMAF Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)