Perryville in Boyle County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Army of the Ohio
Major General Don Carlos Buell
Photographed by Bradley Owen, October 17, 2019
1. Army of the Ohio Marker
First Army Corps
Major General Alexander McD McCook
Tenth Division
Brigadier General James S. Jackson
Thirty-Third Brigade
Brigadier General William R. Terrill
80th, 123rd Illinois and 105th Ohio Infantry Regiments
and detachments 7th, 32nd Kentucky
3rd Tennessee Infantry
Parsons' Improvised United States Battery
Thirty-Fourth Brigade
Colonel George Webster
80th Indiana, 50th, 98th, 121st Ohio Infantry Regiments
Harris' 19th Indiana Infantry
Third Division
Brigadier General Lovell H. Rousseau
Twenty-Eighth Brigade
Colonel John C. Starkweather
24th Illinois, 79th Pennsylvania,
1st, 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiments
Bush's 4th Indiana and Stone's 1st Kentucky Batteries
Rousseaus Ninth and
Seventeenth Brigades
and unattached units
Were generally aligned farther to the right, although
some units, notably the 2nd and 33rd Ohio
Infantry Regiments of the Ninth Brigade,
fought here with Jackson's Division
October 8, 1862
Terrill's Starkweather's and Webster's Brigades, forming generally from left to right in these fields, were assailed by Cheatham's Confederate Division at about 2 o'clock P.M. The Brigades gave way after a ferocious and sanguinary
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Losses in Jackson's Division:
Killed - 187, Wounded - 682, Missing - 237.
Generals Jackson and Terrill and Colonel Webster were killed.
Losses in Starkweather's Brigade:
Killed - 120, Wounded - 477, and Missing - 109.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. A significant historical month for this entry is October 1862.
Location. 37° 40.512′ N, 84° 58.237′ W. Marker is in Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County. It is on Park Road, on the left. Marker is in Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, at the end of Park Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Perryville KY 40468, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Union Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Perryville Battlefield (within shouting distance of this marker); Perryville Confederate Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Soldiers' Reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation (within shouting distance of this marker); Perryville and the Emancipation Proclamation (within shouting distance of this marker); Squire Henry P. Bottom (within shouting distance of this
Photographed by Bernard Fisher, August 18, 2011
2. Dedication Plaque (rear of monument)
of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky
by the
Civil War Soldiers Memorial Foundation
Kent Masterson Brown, Chairman
March 27, 1988
Another marker is no longer nearby. The Battle of Perryville (was within shouting distance of this marker but has been permanently removed).
Also see . . .
1. Perryville. CWSAC Battle Summaries website. (Submitted on August 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.)
2. The Battle of Perryville. (Submitted on August 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.)
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 26, 2003
3. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
The Army of the Ohio Marker is in Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, at the end of Park Road.
Photographed by Bernard Fisher, August 18, 2011
4. Army of the Ohio Monument
Credits. This page was last revised on April 22, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 1,834 times since then and 36 times this year. Last updated on April 21, 2025, by Mike McKeown of Baltimore, Maryland. Photos: 1. submitted on November 22, 2019, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. 2. submitted on August 22, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia. 3. submitted on August 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 4. submitted on August 22, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
