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While officially Murray and Calloway County were declared neutral during the Civil War, there was a large following of the Confederate States of America late in the war.

There were not a lot of large conflicts that took place in the town of Murray, but the citizens did see some guerrilla warfare.

In the spring of 1862 the general of the Union forces stationed in Paducah, Kentucky made his way to the Tennessee River, taking whatever property he wanted from the Murray townspeople.

On more than one occasion, the town of Murray was burned.

Once, the town was burned due to raids on its citizens by guerrillas who took every valuable they could get their hands on.

On another occasion, a diary by Josh Ellison states that in the winter of 1864 a squad of soldiers from Paducah burned the east side of the court square on Friday night, and on Monday they burned the north side of the court square.