The Battle of Perryville/Chaplin Hills (Kentucky): Major General Don Carlos Buell, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Ohio, defeats the Army of Tennessee, commanded by Major General Braxton Bragg. Bragg is forced retreat back to Tennessee, and abandons his recently installed pro-Confederate government in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Over 1,300 Americans are killed.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 172.
Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate _Invasion_of_Kentucky
American Civil War, 1862
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar3.htm
Battle of Perryville – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
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