Editing Shelbyville, Kentucky (section)

===Civil War===
{{See also|Louisville, Kentucky, in the American Civil War|Kentucky in the American Civil War}}

Late in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], on August 24, 1864, [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] guerillas under local sympathizer [[Captain (C.S.A.)|Capt]].&thinsp;Dave Martin attacked the Shelby County Courthouse, attempting to seize its cache of muskets. The local merchant Thomas McGrath and tailor J.H. Masonheimer fought them off, killing three of Martin's men. A black man named Owen was also killed in the exchange, having been forced to hold the guerillas' horses for them. Martin himself missed the gunfight, as he was held up outside the jail behind the courthouse when the jailer's wife Mrs. Burnett began furiously scolding him for endangering the lives of innocent townspeople including Martin's own wife and children. Following the raid, the trustees required all white male residents over the age of 18 to serve as police guards, erecting a blockhouse at Fifth and Main in front of the courthouse to serve as a headquarters.<ref name=louse/>

In response to the slaughter of 35 [[Union (U.S.)|Union]] cowboys by Confederate guerrillas in Shelby County and to [[William Clarke Quantrill]]'s entrance into Kentucky, [[general (U.S.)|Gen.]] [[John M. Palmer (politician)|John Palmer]] placed 30 members of the Shelby County Home Guard and its captain Edwin Terrell on the federal payroll on April 1, 1865. The men roamed Shelby and its surrounding counties, persecuting Confederate guerrillas and Southern sympathizers. The Shelbyville trustees aimed to encourage them to stay close to the city, though, paying their hotel bills when they were in town. On May 10, Terrell and his men found Quantrill's raiders at a barn outside [[Wakefield, Kentucky|Wakefield]] in [[Spencer County, Kentucky|Spencer Co]]. and fatally shot their leader. The city came out to cheer the men upon their return and the trustees continued paying their room and board for another month after the U.S. Army paid off and disbanded the troupe on May 26.<ref name=louse/> The threat of raiding over, the blockhouse was demolished by September. By that time, Capt. Terrell and his lieutenant Harry Thompson had murdered and robbed an Illinois stock merchant named William R. Johnson. Over the next year, the local jury could not return a verdict. Terrell was transferred to [[Taylorsville, Kentucky|Taylorsville]] to be tried for a separate shooting, but broke jail with two companions on May 26 and returned to Shelbyville to go drinking in its saloons. The town marshal George Caplinger organized a posse and took Terrell by surprise outside the Armstrong Hotel, shooting him in the spine, killing his relative John R. Baker, and fatally wounding bystander Merrett Redding. Taken to Louisville, Terrell avoided trial owing to the gravity of his wound and returned home to [[Harrisonville, Kentucky|Harrisonville]] in October. On the 23rd of that month, Harry Thompson broke jail as well and, according to local lore, [[Gone to Texas|fled to Texas]] and lived out his days as the successful farmer "Henry T. Grazian". The surgery in 1867 to remove the bullet from Terrell's back was unsuccessful, though, and he died soon thereafter, aged 22.<ref name=louse/>