The Battle of Perryville.The Battle of Perryville The Battle of Perryville, also known as Battle at Perryville and Battle of Chaplin Hills, was an important but largely neglected encounter in the American Civil War. It was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky. Robert P. Broadwater McFarland & Company PO Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com 078642303X $39.95 1-800-253-2187 The Battle Of Perryville: Culmination Of The Failed Kentucky Campaign is a historic study of the South's ill-fated campaign to bring the fence-sitting border state of Kentucky into the Confederacy Confederacy, name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861–65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. . The many mistakes of the campaign convinced Kentuckians that the Confederacy was incapable of defending them against the Union; among the severe losses for the South was the brutal battle of Perryville. Inexperience Inexperience See also Innocence, Naïveté. Bowes, Major Edward (1874–1946) originator and master of ceremonies of the Amateur Hour on radio. [Am. on both sides and the South's failure to act as a whole turned what could have been a victory into a retreat, and consigned Confederate General Braxton Bragg to be forever remembered as mediocre me·di·o·cre adj. Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary. See Synonyms at average. [French médiocre, from Latin mediocris : medius, middle; see medhyo- . The Battle Of Perryville draws upon letters, diaries, and regimental histories to relate the whole story, with black-and-white photographs, maps, and illustrations. An index allows for easy reference in this captivatingly Adv. 1. captivatingly - in a bewitching manner; "she was bewitchingly beautiful" bewitchingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly written historical account. |
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