Thousands will participate in this years' Wreaths Across America Day.  Wreath laying ceremonies will be held nationwide on Saturday, December 12, 2009, to honor US Veterans during the holidays.  Mill Springs National Cemetery will begin their ceremony at 10:00AM.  The Somerset Rotary Club will be hosting a small reception with refreshments after the ceremony.

Wreaths Across America Ceremony

Mill Springs National Cemetery

Saturday, December 12, 2009

10:00AM

The Chicago Civil War Round Table visited the Mill Springs Battlefield as part of their 59th annual.The groups’ 2009 tour was centered on “Kentucky & Lincoln”.  Headquartered in the Campbell House in Lexington, the Round Table visited various historically significant places in Kentucky, during the last weekend in April.  Some of the places included: Perryville Battlefield, Wildcat Mountain, Lincoln’s Birthplace, Richmond Battlefield and Mill Springs Battlefield.

Mill Springs Battlefield has long been considered a historical landmark in Pulaski County. But sometime in the future, it may become more than that.

Think Mill Springs Battlefield National Park.

During Tuesday's [April 2009] Pulaski County Fiscal Court meeting, Gilbert Wilson, the director of the Mill Springs Battlefield Association, presented Pulaski CountyJudge-executive Barty Bullock and the magistrates a resolution in which the court would request that the federal government establish the battlefield as a national park.

The Association would like to express its gratitude to the family of Dorotha Burton Hudson for donating many valuable pictures and research materials of the family’s about Dorotha and Zollicoffer Park. 

Dorotha was young girl when she first started her interest in Zollicoffer and the Battle of Mill Springs.  Her passion for preservation and dedication to commemorating not only Union, but Confederate war heroes