History:This portrait was painted by the subject's daughter. Anna Maria Zollicoffer's signer and the date of execution are present in the lower left corner. It is an upper torso view of a man dressed in a 2-star Confederate General uniform. The portrait hung in the Confederate Home and when that building was dismantled, it was given by the family to the Tennessee State Library December 17, 1936.
Notes:Born in Maury County, Tennessee, Felix K. Zollicoffer attended Jackson College, in Columbia, Tennessee. He worked as a printer in Knoxville,Tennessee,, Huntsville, Alabama and Columbia, Tennessee. He fought in the Seminole War in 1836, and edited several newspapers in his home state. He served as the state comptroller and in the state legislature. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was Brigadier General commanding 10,000 troops in East Tennessee. He was the first Confederate general killed in the War, after encountering enemy troops at Fishing Creek, Kentucky.
