It is in the northernmost corner of the City Cemetery/Odd Fellows Cemetery just outside downtown Morganfield.

In July 1862, Union forces at Caseyville, Kentucky threatened to arrest everyone in the town of treason, eventually freeing all but nineteen citizens.

[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:".

[2] Nathan Bedford Forrest led the first troops to enter the county during the War on a scouting expedition in November 1861.