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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.
Portions of the battlefield of Perryville are preserved by the state of Kentucky as Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. [76] Also the Perryville Historic District covering downtown Perryville includes buildings which had roles in the battle, including the Elmwood mansion which was pressed into use as a field hospital during the battle. [77]
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 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Elmwood (Perryville, Kentucky) P. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site;
The Confederate Monument in Perryville is a historic monument located by the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, in the vicinity of Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County, Kentucky, USA. It was built in 1902, forty years after the Battle of Perryville, the bloodiest battle in Kentucky history, on October 8, 1862. In ...
The Union Monument in Perryville is an historic monument located by the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, in the vicinity of Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County, Kentucky. It was built in 1928, sixty-six years after the Battle of Perryville, the bloodiest battle in Kentucky history, on October 8, 1862. There ...
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.
Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Perryville 37°40′30″N 84°58′17″W / 37.675°N 84.971389°W / 37.675; -84.971389 ( Union Monument in Perryville