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 in 1863.
Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument | |
| Location | Old Crab Orchard Rd. 1 mi. N of Jct. of KY 39 and KY 80, Somerset, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 37°07.048′N 84°35.838′W |
| Built | 1875 |
| MPS | Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000670 |
| Added to NRHP | July 17, 1997 |
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, lie the southern soldiers, few in number, who were slain in this county during the war of succession. They fell among strangers, unknown, unfriended, yet not unhonored; for strangers' hands have gathered their ashes here, and placed this shaft above them, that constancy, valor, sacrifice of self, though displayed in a fruitless enterprise, may not be unremembered."