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Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (May 19, 1812 – January 19, 1862) was a newspaperman, three-term United States Congressman from Tennessee, 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. ==Early life and career== Felix Zollicoffer was born on a plantation in Bigbyville in Maury County, Tennessee,〔Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 586.〕 a son of John Jacob and Martha (Kirk) Zollicoffer.〔Adkins, Ray. (''Battle of Barboursville, Kentucky'' ). Morrisville, NC: Lulu, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4382-5157-8. p. 17.〕 He was a descended from emigrants from Switzerland who had settled in North Carolina in 1710. His grandfather, George Zollicoffer, had served as a captain in the Revolutionary War, and had been granted a tract of land in Tennessee as payment for his military service.〔Evans, Clement A., ed. (''Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History'' ) Volume: 8. Porter, J. D.; ''Tennessee''. 12 vols. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. . Retrieved January 20, 2011. p. 346.〕 Zollicoffer attended the local schools and studied for a year at Jackson College in Columbia, Tennessee.〔 He left at age sixteen and became an apprentice printer, engaged in newspaper work in Paris, Tennessee, from 1828 to 1830.〔 When the newspaper closed, he moved to Knoxville in 1831 and worked for two years as a journeyman printer at the ''Knoxville Register''.〔〔McKee, James. "Felix K. Zollicoffer: Confederate Defender of East Tennessee." In East Tennessee Historical Society ''Publications'', vol. 43, 1971. p. 37.〕 Three years later, he became editor and part owner of the ''Columbia Observer''.〔〔 Zollicoffer was elected State Printer of Tennessee in 1835.〔〔Sanders, Stuart W. ''The Battle of Mill Springs Kentucky''. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-60949-829-0. p. 14.〕 On September 24, 1835, he married Louisa Pocahontas Gordon, with whom he had fourteen children.〔 However, only six of them survived infancy.〔 Louisa Zollicoffer died in 1857.〔 Zollicoffer also edited the ''Mercury'' for a time in Huntsville, Alabama.〔 He volunteered for the army in 1836 and served as a second lieutenant in the Tennessee militia in the Second Seminole War in Florida.〔〔 He then returned to Tennessee and became owner and editor of the ''Columbia Observer'' and the ''Southern Agriculturist'' and in 1843 the editor of the ''Republican Banner'', the state organ of the Whig Party.〔 This brought Zollicoffer into political circles, and he was Comptroller of the State Treasury from 1845–1849, as well as Adjutant General for the state.〔 He was a member of the State Senate from 1849 until 1852, and was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852, supporting General Winfield Scott.〔 Zollicoffer was himself elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third United States Congress and was reelected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1859).〔 During his first campaign, he fought a duel with the editor of the rival ''Nashville Union'' newspaper.〔E. Thomas Wood, 〕 He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858 and retired to private life. He supported fellow Tennessee moderate John Bell (CU) for president in the election of 1860.〔 Following the secession of the Deep South in 1861, Zollicoffer served on the peace convention in Washington, D.C. in an attempt to prevent the approaching civil war.〔 A strong supporter of states rights, Zollicoffer nevertheless opposed Tennessee's secession from the Union.〔Adkins, 2008, p. 112.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Felix Zollicoffer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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