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Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.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 following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] [2] during the battle and return of casualties. [3] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
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.
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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.
Peninsula campaign order of battle: Union; Battle of Perryville order of battle: Confederate; Battle of Perryville order of battle: Union;
Battle of Perryville order of battle: Union; U. Union Monument in Perryville; Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville