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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7C_perryvile-and-the-emancipation-proclamation_Perryville-KY.html
In mid-1862, President Abraham Lincoln wrestled with the idea of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. With Confederate armies pressing into Maryland and Kentucky, Lincoln realized that he could not issue the Proclamation until the Union secured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV77_michigan-at-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
(side 1)Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units. The most heavily engaged of these were Coldwater's Loomis Battery (Battery A of the First Michi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV76_illinois-soldiers-at-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV75_russell-house_Perryville-KY.html
On the knoll, it was a key position on the Union left flank under Maj. Gen. McCook in Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862. The scene of desperate fighting, it changed hands twice and was hit many times. After the battle it was used as a hospital.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV4F_crawford-house_Danville-KY.html
Used by Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg as headquarters during the Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862. Crawford Spring, back of the house, furnished vital water supply to CSA troops on the drought stricken battlefield.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV46_battle-of-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
(left panel)The battle was brought on by Confederate Lieut. Gen. Braxton Bragg as a delaying action to insure safe withdrawal of a huge wagon train of supplies and to enable him to effect a junction with the army of Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5Y_the-battle-of-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
The battle which climaxed the major Confederate invasion of Kentucky was fought on these hills west of Perryville.
A sharp clash occurred on October 7 in order to gain possession of the only water supply in the vicinity. The opposing armies to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5R_army-of-the-ohio_Perryville-KY.html
First Army CorpsMajor General Alexander McD McCook
Tenth DivisionBrigadier General James S. Jackson
Thirty-Third BrigadeBrigadier General William R. Terrill80th, 123rd Illinois and 105th Ohio Infantry Regiments and detachments 7th, 32nd Kent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5P_union-monument_Perryville-KY.html
To the valiant soldiers of the Army of the United States, who bravely and heroically fell in the Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862. This monument in grateful memory of their loyal service and noble sacrifice has been erected by the reunited rep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5B_perryville-battlefield_Perryville-KY.html
Perryville Battlefieldhas been designated aRegistered NationalHistoric LandmarkUnder the provisions of theHistoric Sites Act of August 21, 1935this site possesses exceptional valuein commemorating and illustratingthe history of the United States
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