Go Grant! Southerners should have got an Anglican minister to command I guess :D
Battle of Perryville fought today in Kentucky in 1862
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I’ve actually visited the Battlegrounds since it’s not too far from where I live. The reenactments are pretty well done and quite a community that is very involved. Nice place to visit if you are in the area.
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I remembered you lived there.
I have always loved this battle and even have a Brigade Series battle of it.
I was in Florence at this time last year, so could not post of it. I promised I would not miss it twice!
The Western Army of Tennessee is a favourite of mine and this is the first of its battles. -
@wittmann:
I remembered you lived there.
I have always loved this battle and even have a Brigade Series battle of it.
I was in Florence at this time last year, so could not post of it. I promised I would not miss it twice!
The Western Army of Tennessee is a favourite of mine and this is the first of its battles.Florence Y’all! :-D
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Just visited Perryville today with the wife. The confederate mass grave was very reflectivity sad.
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@ABWorsham:
Just visited Perryville today with the wife. The confederate mass grave was very reflectivity sad.
Glad you got to see it. Was only a small battle by Western standards, but both sides did a good job of killing each other.
If Bragg and Kirby Smith had have cooperated and joined their two three Division armies, instead of childishly and jeslously squabbling, the state may have gone the other way. The capital was at their mercy, undefended, but they allowed Buell to occupy it and all the good work was for ought.
It was a well thought out, but badly executed campaign.
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I wonder how Kirby Smith would have done leading the combined confederate forces, his defeat of Union forces at Richmond Ky, was complete. Capturing 5000 POWs. Shelby Foote, described the battle as the only “Cannae” of the war.
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I had forgotten which of the two had won that battle, so thank you for the reminder.
I am sad for the Kentucky Brigade who never got to see its state and fight and die there at Perryville. Can’t remember where they were left behind and whose stupid idea it was to not use that fine Brigade in its own state. -
What was the South trying to do in this campaign?
I know this is one of their farther tours into enemy territory, but seems no point.
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@Imperious:
What was the South trying to do in this campaign?
I know this is one of their farther tours into enemy territory, but seems no point.
Bring Kentucky into the Confederacy, recruit numbers into the ranks and to plunder supplies along with relieving pressure off the badly turn Tennessee campaigns.
Little supplies could be found, Kentucky was suffering from a harsh drought.
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OK.
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@Imperious:
OK.
The South didn’t have the numbers to pull off this campaign, but with what Confederacy sent into Kentucky the South fought well.
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I’ll visit Shiloh tomorrow.
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Nice!
Think of me when you are standing by where AS Johnston died through blood loss. He is undoubtedly one of the war’s great enigmas and what ifs.
Forrest came to the fore at this battle and one of my favourite generals was present too: Patrick R Cleburne, commanding a Brigade.
Hope the weather is not to bad.
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