Staff ride handbook for the Battle of Perryville, 8 October 1862 / Robert S. Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Robert S., 1965- author.

Contributor:

Combat Studies Institute (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perryville, Battle of (Kentucky : 1862).

Perryville, Battle of, Perryville, Ky., 1862.

Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site (Ky.)--Guidebooks.

Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site (Ky.).

Perryville (Ky.)--Guidebooks.

Perryville (Ky.).

Kentucky--Perryville.

Kentucky--Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Pickel Partners Publishing, 2013.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet from the CGSC web site. Address as of 4/3/06: http://www.cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/cameron.pdf; current access is available via PURL.

Summary:

Illustrated with 9 figures and 11 maps of the campaign and engagements at Perryville. The battle of Perryville symbolized the high-water mark of the Confederacy in the western theater of operations. In Aug. 1862 General Braxton Bragg and Major General (MG) Edmund Kirby Smith led separate armies into Kentucky to wrest the state from the Union and install a Confederate governor. They initially met success and captured the state capital, simultaneously shifting the war in the west from northern Mississippi and Alabama to Kentucky. In response the North raised additional forces to protect Cincinnati and Louisville while MG Don Carlos Buell halted his offensive against Chattanooga and marched his Army of the Ohio back to Kentucky. On 8 Oct. 1862 Buell's army clashed with Bragg's at Perryville. The Confederates achieved a tactical success in a hard-fought engagement that generated more than 7, 000 casualties. Of the regiments engaged, 10 suffered losses between 40 and 60 percent. However, outnumbered by three to one, Bragg's army could not sustain its victory and withdrew. Within days of the battle, all of the invading Southern forces retired from the state. Kentucky remained firmly in the Union and secure from Confederate invasion for the war's duration. Despite its importance to the course of the war in the west, Perryville does not benefit from the high visibility accorded the better-known Civil War sites such as Manassas, Gettysburg, Antietam, and Chickamauga. Although more than 70, 000 Union and Confederate soldiers deployed in and around Perryville, understanding of the battle and its significance to the overall course of the war remains poor. For staff ride purposes this unfamiliarity can be a benefit. It forces the participants to study and think about the situation facing their Civil War counterparts without the preconceived notions that surround the more popular sites.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on April 3, 2006).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782895312

1782895310

OCLC:

65429661