Battle of Perryville

When

8 Oct 1862

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

37.68° N, 84.97° W

Description

1862 battle of the American Civil War

1862 American Civil War battle

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 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.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union Army forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Schlacht bei Perryville, die letzte Schlacht der konföderierten Heartland-Offensive, bringt letztlich keiner Seite einen Vorteil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les confédérés Bragg et Smith échouent à Perryville dans leur tentative de contrôle du Kentucky”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “南北戦争: ペリービルの戦い”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• American Civil War12 Apr 1861 · Civil war