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PERRYVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 185 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERRYVILLE , a See also:

town of See also:Boyle See also:county, See also:Kentucky, U.S.A., about lo m. W. of See also:Danville. Pop. (1910), 407. Here on the 8th of See also:October 1863 See also:General Braxton See also:Bragg, in command of the Confederate See also:army of the See also:Mississippi of about 16,000 men, with which he had invaded Kentucky, faced about in his slow See also:retreat across the See also:state and gave See also:battle to the See also:Union army of the See also:Ohio of about 40,000 (of whom only about 22,000 were actually engaged) commanded by See also:Major-General See also:Don See also:Carlos See also:Buell. Bragg's See also:order to attack was disregarded by Major-General See also:Leonidas See also:Polk, who preferred adopting the " defensive-offensive" rather than engage all of Buell's force. Bragg himself came on the See also:field about to a.m. and repeated his orders for an attack, but it was 2 p.m. before there was an actual engagement. Then after much delay on Polk's See also:part the Confederate army joined battle with See also:McCook's See also:corps. The Confederate lines were broken and driven back through Perryville, where caissons, See also:ammunition wagons and 140 See also:officers and men were captured. Darkness had now come on, and in the See also:night Bragg withdrew. His losses were reported as 510 killed, 2635 wounded and 251 missing. The Union loss was 845 killed, 2851 wounded and 515 captured or missing.

The battle was See also:

drawn tactically, but strategically it was a Union victory and it virtually closed Bragg's unsuccessful Kentucky See also:campaign, which is sometimes called the Perryville campaign.

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