Summary: | (No known wartime photograph. This photograph has been retouched to show him in a non-Confederate regulation uniform.) Seminole War veteran and antebellum congressman from Tennessee. Commissioned as a brigadier general in June 1861. Major campaigns and battles include Logan's Cross Road, where Zollicoffer was killed in action in January 1862. He is buried in Nashville, Tennessee. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 6. National Historical Society, 1991.
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