PERRYVILLE  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• BOYLE
• BOYLE, JOHN J
• BOYLE, ROBERT (1627-1691)

Boyle See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• KENTUCKY

Kentucky, U.S.A., about lo m . W. of See also:

• DANVILLE

Danville . Pop . (1910), 407 . Here on the 8th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1863 See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Braxton See also:

• BRAGG, BRAXTON (1817—1876)

Bragg, in command of the Confederate See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army of the See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi of about 16,000 men, with which he had invaded Kentucky, faced about in his slow See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat across the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state and gave See also:

• BATTLE

battle to the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union army of the See also:

• OHIO

Ohio of about 40,000 (of whom only about 22,000 were actually engaged) commanded by See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major-General See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don See also:

• CARLOS, DON (1545-1568)
• CARLOS, DON (1788-1855)
• CARLOS, DON (CHARLES MARIA DE LOS DOLORES JUAN ISIDOR.E JOSEPH FRANCIS QUIRIN ANTONY MICHAEL GABRIEL RAPHAEL) (1848—1909)

Carlos See also:

• BUELL, DON CARLOS (1818-1898)

Buell . Bragg's See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to attack was disregarded by Major-General See also:

• LEONIDAS

Leonidas See also:

• POLK, JAMES KNOX (179 1849)
• POLK, LEONIDAS (1806-1864)

Polk, who preferred adopting the " defensive-offensive" rather than engage all of Buell's force . Bragg himself came on the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

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

part the Confederate army joined battle with See also:

• MCCOOK, ALEXANDER MCDOWELL (1831-1903)

McCook's See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps . The Confederate lines were broken and driven back through Perryville, where caissons, See also:

• AMMUNITION

ammunition wagons and 140 See also:

• OFFICERS

officers and men were captured . Darkness had now come on, and in the See also:

• NIGHT

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

drawn tactically, but strategically it was a Union victory and it virtually closed Bragg's unsuccessful Kentucky See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign, which is sometimes called the Perryville campaign .