Bibliograph

The Civil War at Perryville, battling for the Bluegrass, Christopher L. Kolakowski

Type

Label

The Civil War at Perryville, battling for the Bluegrass, Christopher L. Kolakowski

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Civil War at Perryville

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Christopher L. Kolakowski

Series statement

The History Press Civil War sesquicentennial series

Sub title

battling for the Bluegrass

Summary

A comprehensive history of the bloody Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, featuring over sixty historic images and maps. Desperate to seize control of Union-held Kentucky, a border state, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862. The incursion viciously culminated at an otherwise quiet Bluegrass crossroads and forever altered the landscape of the war. The Battle of Perryville lasted just one day yet produced nearly eight thousand combined casualties and losses, and some say nary a victor. The Rebel army was forced to retreat, and the United States kept its imperative grasp on Kentucky throughout the war. Famous Confederate diarist Sam Watkins, whose Company Aytch journals were featured as a major narrative thread in Ken Burns' award-winning Civil War documentary series, declared Perryville the hardest fighting that he experienced. Indeed, history would record that Perryville the second bloodiest battle of the Western Theater after Shiloh. Few know this hallowed ground like Christopher L. Kolakowski, former director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, who draws on letters, reports, memoirs and other primary sources to offer the most accessible and engaging account of the Kentucky Campaign yet, featuring over sixty historic images and maps

Target audience

adult

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