[4][5][6] The 6' 2" marble obelisk marks a mass grave of Confederate casualties from the campaign, their names lost to history for 159 years.

[3] 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.

Pegram led approximately 1,550 cavalry supported by a three piece battery of artillery across the Cumberland River at Stigall's Ferry on March 22.

By making an orderly march through Somerset, the populace was led to believe that Pegram was leading the forefront of a Confederate invasion of central Kentucky.

[7] On March 30, 1863, about 1⁠1/2⁠ miles from Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, Pegram's cavalry was overtaken by a Union force of 1,250 men under the command of Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore.