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Battle of Perryville

Confederate Commander

Gen Braxton Bragg

Total Engaged: 16,000

Killed: 510

Wounded: 2,635

Missing or Captured: 251

Total Casualties: 3,396

Confederate Officers

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Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk

Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee

Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne

Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Adams

Brig. Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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October 8, 1862

Near Perryville, Kentucky

Also called Battle of Chaplin Hills

Union Victory

American Battlefield Trust

Perryville (Battle of Chaplin Hills)

10 Facts: Perryville

Literally Covered with the Dead and Dying

The Battle of Perryville: Then & Now

Perryville / Oct 8, 1862

Perryville / Then and Now

Perryville: An Article

Moments in Time: The Battle of Perryville - A Battle in Three Parts

An Ohioan in the Slaughter Pen

Recollections of the Battle of Perryville

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American History Central

Battle of Perryville

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Warfare History Network

Battle of Perryville: Death in the Kentucky Hills

The Battle of Perryville: Death on a Day River

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Essential Civil War Curriculum

The Battle of Perryville and Bragg's Kentucky Campaign

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Civil War Before During After

Battle of Perryville

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Tennessee CSV

An Account of the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky

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Emerging Civil War

The Battle for Kentucky - 160 Years Ago

Placing Perryville

Artillery: Sticking to His Guns - Lt. Charles Parsons at the Battle of Perryville

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Army University Press

Staff Ride Handbook for the Battle of Perryville

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Iron Brigadier

Visiting Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site in Kentucky

Colonel John C. Starkweather's Report or His Brigade at the Battle of Perryville

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Perryville Battlefield

Goodnight Farm and the Battle of Perryville

Homes and Churches of Perryville 1862

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Lancaster at War

The 79th Pennsylvania in the Battle of Perryville: The Fight

Photos from Perryville

In Hot Pursuit: The March to Perryville

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HistoryNet

Carnage in Kentucky's Hills

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The Collector

Battle of Perryville (1862): Bragg's Kentucky Campaign

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Everything Explained Today

Battle of Perryville Explained

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Civil War Atlas

Plate 24-2

Plate 24-4

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Map

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Pictures

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New York Times

October 13, 1862

October ​22, 1862

October 24, 1862

October 29, 1862

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Harper's Weekly

November 1, 1862

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Total Engaged: 61,000

Killed: 845

Wounded: 2,851

Missing or Captured: 515

Total Casualties: 4,211

Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook

Maj. Gen. Charles C. Gilbert

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman

Brig. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau

Brig. Gen. Robert B. Mitchell

Brig. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York; David McKay, 1969. p 642-644

Buell, Don Carlos. "East Tennessee and the Campaign of Perryville." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough

          Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2006. p 31-51

Current, Richard N., ed. "Perryville, Kentucky." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p

          1196-1198

Duke, Basil W. "Morgan's Cavalry During the Bragg Invasion." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles           and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2006. p 26-28

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War A Narrative Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. p 733-738

Gilbert, Charles C. "On the Field of Perryville." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders

          of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,

          2006. p 52-59

Johnston, J. Stoddard. "Kentucky Missouri" Confederate Military History Vol IX. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2008. p 140-146

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America. 2012. p

          589-599

Stanley, Steven. Battle Maps of the Civil War The Western Theater Princeton, NJ: Know Press, 2021. p 24-30

Street, James, Jr. The Struggle for Tennessee Tupelo to Stones River. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1985. p 60-67

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

Wheeler, Joseph. "Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and 

          Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical

          Society, 2006. p 1-25

Wright, J. Montgomery. "Notes of a Staff-Officer at Perryville." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough

          Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume III Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt.

          National Historical Society, 2006. p 60-61

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