"During the Civil War, the area now called Dumont Hill near Scottsville, Kentucky, was sequentially used as a transient camp for several thousand Union soldiers beginning in 1862. Almost all of them came from the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. No major battles were staged in the area, but diseases claimed the lives of 57 of those Midwestern men who camped there. Eleven other soldiers died in Scottsville after the last encampment on Dumont Hill. Of the total of sixty-eight soldiers who died, sixty-three were laid to rest in the Scottsville Burial Ground. Following the war, the National Cemetery System was developed, and the remains from the Scottsville Burial Ground was later lost to time ... its hallowed ground forgotten. In The burial ground historian and author Glen Conner provides detailed information on the men who died at Dumont Hill, Scottsville, or in Allen County. He located where their remains now lie and identified the location of the Scottsville Burial Ground"--Jacket flap.