Perryville: The Battle for Kentucky
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Presented by Chris Kolakowski
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln said "I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game." Over ten weeks in the late summer and early fall of 1862, Confederate armies invaded the Bluegrass State in a campaign culminating in the Battle of Perryville on October 8. This talk will examine this critical campaign and battle and assess its place in the Civil War.
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Very good presentation thank you
This is a very good narrative of the Civil War at Perryville. I was impressed with your details. Thank you for sharing this.
My 3X Great Grandfather was John Cornelius Curtright, Captain of Co. E, 41st GA Infantry, Troup Light Guard. He was shot through the abdomen early in the fight while the 41st GA was attempting to take Parson's Battery on the Federal left. Carried off the field and taken to Harrodsburg, he died in a private home the next day and was buried there. Exhumed after WW1, he was reinterred in his hometown of Lagrange, GA. I have his handwritten commission into the Confederate Army, as well as his initial orders to report to Camp McDonald at Big Shanty, GA (Kennessaw).
Salute from Alabama to your ancestor
My Great Great grandfather Private William Garner and my Great Great Great uncle Private John Garner both of the 32nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment part of Browns brigade of Stewart's division fought at Perryville
Even Confederate Generals said."Bragg has the uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
great, concise lecture
My first time I learned of this is when I was a Staff Sergeant in the Army at Fort Knox. My Commander took all the Non-Commissioned Officers down to Perryville to study the Battle. I got into my Family Genealogy not long afterwards and found 2 Cousins from Ohio who were at the Battle in General Gilbert's 3rd Army Corps. 3rd Corps took the brunt of the casualties because they were in the Center of the Union Forces west of the town.
1st Corp was still marching South down the Springfield Pike when the initial skirmishes started at Doctors Creek at 7:15 pm on the 8th. Foragers from both sides were looking for water at Doctors Creek, which as mentioned in the video was barely a trickle.
Read "Perryville- This Grand Havoc". It gives details of troop management and battle Timelines.
2nd Corp was marching East on the Lebanon Pike and was the last to War. They didn't get there until the morning of the 9th. Their commander let his exhausted troops sleep thru the night which made Buell furious.
Buell didn't even know the Battle was going on because of an environmental condition called "Halo". All the sound was being carried away from his HQ.
He had fallen off his horse the day before and had a back injury. He never left his tent.
So between Bragg's Impetiousness and Buell's lack of engagement, it was a "Battle Of Incompetence".
Lincoln also said,"As does Kentucky. So goes the nation."
This is from my cousins' research, " I don’t know much about John Kilgore’s life or his Civil War Story, but apparently if I had spent any time around him at all, I would have heard a whole lot about the latter…even though he only actively served for 2- to 2-1/2 months. Or at least that’s the story that’s recorded in his obituary in 1894, and let’s face it, it better be a good story if you’re still telling it 32 years later."
{ My 3rd great Grandfather was John Kilgore, His Son was killed in that battle, and his son-in-law was also there. }
“An old battle-scarred veteran passed suddenly to his reward yesterday in the person of John Kilgore.
He had been living with his son, William B. Kilgore in the First Ward, and got up in the morning in good spirits and ate his usual breakfast. Half an hour later he was dead. Apoplexy seized him and the old man, past 75-years of age, yielded an easy victim.
He was a character in his day and was known by everybody. He talked of the Civil War almost constantly. He was not out in the service long, but he was there long enough to prove that his courage was undaunted in the cause.
He went out with the 98th Regiment of the Ohio Voluntary Infantry in the summer of ’62 and was assigned to company G. In October of that year in the battle of Chapline Hill, near Perryville, Ky., John Kilgore received 24 bullet wounds and one shell wound.
He lay in the hospital till the spring of ’63 when he received an honorable discharge and came home to get along the best he could, carrying in different parts off his body, as he believed, 14 bullets that were never found, and he died in the belief that he carried these to the grave with him.”
I had two cousins from Ohio at Perryville
Boy Scouts Have 2 Trails they do every year. Dry canteen and regular trail. This was two different Northerners solders ways the federal troops went to Perryville battlefield. Did both when I was in the scouts.
The Scouts had a Regional Encampment at Perryville at each of the 6 Reenactments there that I took part in '76-'81
Nice video. Can you please include a link to the map that is shown in the video? Maybe the people in the live audience can read it, but it is very hard to see the map since the camera is not head-on with the screen. The angle makes it hard to see the map.
Actually, I just found it in wikipedia in case anyone else wants to see the map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville#/media/File:ACW_Western_Theater_May_-_October_1862.png
Sir, This is an excellent summary of the Battle. However our name isn't pronounced Har-DEE it is pronounced simply Hardee..ty
I did not read any about this!