Battle of Perryville | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Battle of Perryville


00:02:19 1 Background
00:02:27 1.1 Military situation
00:02:36 1.2 Kentucky Campaign of 1862
00:09:17 1.3 Prelude to battle
00:09:54 1.3.1 Geography and location
00:10:39 1.3.2 Disposition of armies
00:12:52 2 Opposing forces
00:13:02 2.1 Union
00:15:00 2.2 Confederate
00:15:36 3 Battle
00:15:44 3.1 Morning actions
00:19:09 3.2 Attack from the Confederate right
00:25:54 3.3 Attack from the Confederate center
00:27:21 3.4 Attack from the Confederate left
00:32:19 3.5 Dixville Crossroads
00:36:22 4 Aftermath
00:36:31 4.1 Casualties
00:37:22 4.2 Reactions and effects
00:40:02 4.3 Subsequent events
00:40:44 5 Battlefield preservation
00:41:21 6 See also



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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 initially won a tactical victory against primarily a single corps of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Union Army of the Ohio. The battle is considered a strategic Union victory, sometimes called the Battle for Kentucky, since Bragg withdrew to Tennessee soon thereafter. The Union retained control of the critical border state of Kentucky for the remainder of the war.
On October 7, Buell's army, in pursuit of Bragg, converged on the small crossroads town of Perryville in three columns. Union forces first skirmished with Confederate cavalry on the Springfield Pike before the fighting became more general, on Peters Hill, when the Confederate infantry arrived. Both sides were desperate to get access to fresh water. The next day, at dawn, fighting began again around Peters Hill as a Union division advanced up the pike, halting just before the Confederate line. After noon, a Confederate division struck the Union left flank—the I Corps of Maj. Gen. Alexander M. McCook—and forced it to fall back. When more Confederate divisions joined the fray, the Union line made a stubborn stand, counterattacked, but finally fell back with some units routed.Buell, several miles behind the action, was unaware that a major battle was taking place and did not send any reserves to the front until late in the afternoon. The Union troops on the left flank, reinforced by two brigades, stabilized their line, and the Confederate attack sputtered to a halt. Later, three Confederate regiments assaulted the Union division on the Springfield Pike but were repulsed and fell back into Perryville. Union troops pursued, and skirmishing occurred in the streets until dark. By that time, Union reinforcements were threatening the Confederate left flank. Bragg, short of men and supplies, withdrew during the night, and continued the Confederate retreat by way of Cumberland Gap into East Tennessee.Considering the casualties relative to the engaged strengths of the armies, the Battle of Perryville was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. It was the largest battle fought in the state of Kentucky.