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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. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg 's Army of Mississippi [b] initially won a tactical ...
October 15, 1966. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site is a 745-acre (3.01 km 2) park near Perryville, Kentucky. The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves ' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust.
Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 2001. ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0
The Perryville Battlefield is preserved as a state park, and is the site of a reenactment of the battle every year. [7] In 1961, Perryville and the surrounding area was made part of a National Historic Landmark area. In 1973, the entire town of Perryville, because of the contribution the village has made toward American history, was put on the ...
The Battle of Perryville battlefield as depicted in Harper's Weekly, November 1, 1862. By October 7, Polk's forces had fallen back to the town of Perryville. The dry summer of 1862 had left water in short supply, and when the Union troops learned of water in Perryville's Doctor's Creek, they began to move on the Confederate position.
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.
2007-12-31 23:39 Hlj 3243×5000× (1905412 bytes) Map of the [[Battle of Perryville]] of the American Civil War, drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS3 by Hal Jespersen ...
Kentucky-Tennessee, 1862 Western Theater: movements October–December 1862 (Stones River Campaign). After the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky on October 8, 1862, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi withdrew to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where it was joined by Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's army of 10,000 on October 10.