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ARTICLES RELATED TO Battle of Perryville - Casualties | | | |  Battle of Perryville - Casualties: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Perryville - BattleOn October 1, Buell left Louisville with Major General George Henry Thomas as his second in command. While 20,000 men under Brigadier General Joshua Sill moved toward Frankfort, the Army of the Ohio, with 58,000 troops under Buell and Thomas, advanced toward Bragg's army in Bardstown on three separate roads:
1st Corps - Major General Alexander McDowell McCook - on the left, along the Mackville Road
2nd Corps - Major General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden - on the right, along the Lebanon Road
3rd Corps - Major General Charles Champion Gilbert - i ...
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| | | | Battle of Perryville - Casualties: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Perryville - The retreat The Confederate forces held their ground until Bragg, finally realizing that the main body of the Union army was in the area, gave the order around midnight to retreat. Buell did not know his opponent had abandoned the field until Crittendon's 2nd Corps moved into Perryville at 10:30 the next morning. He did not begin to follow after them until the following day, October 10. Bragg united his forces with Smith's at Harrodsburg, and the Union and Confederate armies, now of comparable size, shadow boxed with one an ...
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| | | | Battle of Perryville - Casualties: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Perryville - The Kentucky Campaign of 1862 Situated between the Southern states of Tennessee and Virginia and the Northern states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, the border state of Kentucky was coveted by both sides of the conflict because of its central location. So much so, in fact, that in September 1861, Kentucky-born President Abraham Lincoln wrote in a private letter, “I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”
Opposing viewpoints within the state vied for control during the early part of the war, and while the state never seceded from th ...
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