| 词条 | Confederate Monument of Morganfield |
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| name = Confederate Monument of Morganfield | nrhp_type = | image = Confederate Monument of Morganfield from north.jpg | caption = | location = Morganfield, Kentucky | locmapin = Kentucky#USA | area = | built = 1870 | architect = | architecture = | added = July 17, 1997 | refnum = 97000666[1] | mpsub = Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS }} The Confederate Monument of Morganfield, Kentucky is a monument to Confederate soldiers from surrounding Union County, Kentucky, of which Morganfield is the county seat. It is in the northernmost corner of the City Cemetery/Odd Fellows Cemetery just outside downtown Morganfield. During the War "Union" County was mostly a Confederate-sympathizing county. The county produced 657 soldiers for the Confederacy, but only 187 for the Union, although 131 African-Americans joined the Union forces in 1864. In July 1862, Union forces at Caseyville, Kentucky threatened to arrest everyone in the town of treason, eventually freeing all but nineteen citizens. A skirmish in Morganfield on September 1, 1862, resulted in a Confederate victory.[2][3][4] The monument consists of a limestone base supporting a white marble obelisk. Inscribed on the monument were the names of sixty-four soldiers who had died in battle, and stated that "Union County mourns the loss of:". Due to its age, much of its text is now illegible.[2] Nathan Bedford Forrest led the first troops to enter the county during the War on a scouting expedition in November 1861. In 1864 there was much guerrilla activity in the area.[5]On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument of Morganfield 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.[6] GalleryNotes1. ^{{NRISref|2007a}} {{commonscat|Confederate Monument of Morganfield}}{{American Civil War monuments in Kentucky}}2. ^1 Civil War in Kentucky 3. ^Morganfield War marker, see gallery 4. ^Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.908. 5. ^Morganfield marker 6. ^{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935|url={{NRHP url|id=64500229}} |format=pdf|date=January 8, 1997 |author=Joseph E. Brent |publisher=National Park Service}} 4 : Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS|National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Kentucky|Obelisks in the United States|Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Kentucky |
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