page_title: Murray, Kentucky
section_title: The Civil War era
hierarchical_section_title: Murray, Kentucky / History / The Civil War era
caption_attribution_description: English: Confederate Monument in Murray in Murray This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 97000711
context_page_description: Murray is a home rule-class city in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of Calloway County and the 19th-largest city in Kentucky. The city's population was 17,741 during the 2010 U.S. census, and its micropolitan area's population is 37,191. Calloway County is a college town and is the home of Murray State University.
context_section_description: Kentucky did not officially secede from the Union during the Civil War, instead declaring its neutrality, but both Murray and Calloway County were strongly pro-Confederate.  No major battles were fought near the town, but guerrilla warfare sometimes took place nearby. In the spring of 1862, a Union force stationed in Paducah marched across the county to the Tennessee River, taking anything it wanted from the inhabitants without paying.  Also, parts of Murray were burned on several occasions. Once, part of the town was burned by the Union Army in retaliation for its presumed support for the Confederate guerrillas.  A diary kept by Josh Ellison of Murray tells that one night during the winter of 1864-65, a detachment of Union soldiers from Paducah torched every buildings on the east side of the court square, three days later burning all those north of the square.
  An estimated 800 men from the area joined in the Confederate Army, either as infantry in the Kentucky Orphan Brigade or in the cavalry, while about 200 sided with the Union.  Calloway County's Confederate veterans are honored by monument on the northeast side of the court house square.  Donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it is the only Confederate monument in the South that does not face true north.  There are several tales about the reason for this, but nowadays no one really knows.
caption: Monument honoring the Confederate soldiers on the northeast corner of the Murray court square
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