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The Battle of Perryville, also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills, was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky, as the culmination of the Confederate Heartland Offensive (Kentucky Campaign) during the American Civil War.
The battle was fought on October 8, 1862, between the U.S. Army of the Ohio, commanded by U.S. Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, and the Confederate Army of Mississippi, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg. The battle was a tactical victory for the Confederates but a strategic victory for the United States because Bragg withdrew his army from Kentucky ...
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised January 10, 2008), unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, University Press of Kentucky, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0.
William Rufus Terrill (April 21, 1834 – October 8, 1862) was a United States Army soldier and general who was killed in action at the Battle of Perryville during the American Civil War. His Confederate brother James was also killed during the same war, making the Terrills one of the few sets of American brothers killed in action while ...
At the Battle of Perryville on 8 October 1862, the 20th Louisiana Infantry was part of Brigadier General Daniel Weisiger Adams's brigade, Anderson's division, Major General William J. Hardee's Left Wing, Bragg's Army of Mississippi. The regiment numbered 360 men and suffered losses of 1 killed, approximately 15 wounded, and 16 missing.
The ledger is attributed to a regimental surgeon who treated hundreds of wounded soldiers from the Battle of Perryville. Hospital ledger tied to KY Civil War battle sold on eBay. Buyer donates it ...
Battle of Perryville: Attack on Sheridan, 4 pm. Note: The 36th Illinois is mismarked 35 IL. On 4 September 1862, the newly formed 88th Illinois was ordered to report to Louisville, Kentucky. [8] The regiment camped at Jeffersonville, Indiana, where it received its weapons on 11 September.