Marshall is a town in Madison County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 777 at the 2020 census, down from 872 in 2010. It is …Marshall is a town in Madison County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 777 at the 2020 census, down from 872 in 2010. It is the county seat of Madison County. During the Civil War, Marshall, as the seat of Confederate administration for Madison County, was the scene of conflict with the largely pro-Union rural population. On May 13, 1861, the election day for delegates to the state convention on secession from the Union, a man shot and killed the pro-secession county sheriff after a dispute in which the sheriff had shot the man's son.
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