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Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument

Somerset, Italy

Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument

The Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Somerset, Kentucky, commemorates the Confederate soldiers who died at the battle of Dutton's Hill on March 30, 1863. Today the battlefield of Dutton's Hill is on private property. It is located about a mile from the intersection

of highways 39 and 80. A historical marker is at the entrance to four homes, which are at the forefront of the hill. On July 17, 1997, the Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The 6' 2" marble obelisk marks a mass grave of Confederate casualties from the campaign, their names lost to history for 159 years. The inscription on the memorial has been damaged and is barely legible today. The inscription reads: Here, off-duty, 'till the last reveille, rest the southern soldiers, few in number, who were slain in this county during the war of succes- sion. They fell among strangers, unknown, unfriended, yet not un- honored; for strangers' hands have gathered their ashes here, and placed this shaft...

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