Confederate Monument in Glasgow
Confederate Monument in Glasgow | ||
MPS Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS | | |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000717[1] | |
|---|---|---|
| Added to NRHP | July 17, 1997 | |
The Confederate Monument in
Glasgow saw much action in 1862. John Hunt Morgan twice raided through the city. The most notable was Christmas Eve, when some of Morgan's men under Captain Thomas Quirk sought to celebrate the holiday at a tavern in Glasgow, which the Union 2nd Michigan Cavalry also did, leading to a skirmish. Two Union and Three Confederate soldiers were killed, and the Union cavalry retreated to Cave City, leaving Glasgow in Morgan's hands. Braxton Bragg went through the town on his way to capturing Kentucky's capital of Frankfort and the Battle of Perryville.[4]
The President of the Confederacy,
Battle of Stone's River, and three were from the Battle of Chickamauga; both battles were fought in Tennessee, not Kentucky.[4] It was remembering this valor of his fellow Confederate soldiers who hailed from Barren County that Nelson County native John A. Murray had the Confederate Monument in Glasgow built, with the help of a ladies association.[5]
On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty different monuments to the
Multiple Property Submission. Twenty-three of these monuments, including Glasgow's, had cast soldiers as part of the memorial, and Glasgow's is one of ten such soldier monuments in Kentucky that is on a courthouse lawn.[6]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#97000717)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Civil War in Kentucky
- ^ Brent, Joseph E. (January 8, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935" (pdf). National Park Service.
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- ^ Johnson, Polk. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, pp. 1418.
- ^ Brent pp. F-1.
