Perryville in Boyle County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Army of the Ohio
Major General Don Carlos Buell
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
Rousseau’s 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 fight in which Parsons' Battery near here was overwhelmed. The three Brigades grudingly gave ground until they finally halted the attack in the evening.
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 1919.
Location. 37° 40.512′ N, 84° 58.237′ W. Marker is in Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County. Marker 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.
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); The Battle of Perryville (within shouting distance of this marker); Perryville and the Emancipation Proclamation (within shouting distance of this marker); Soldiers' Reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation (within shouting distance of this marker); Squire Henry P. Bottom (within shouting distance of this marker); Confederate Cemetery (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Perryville.
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.)
Credits. This page was last revised on February 27, 2021. It was originally submitted on August 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 1,502 times since then and 18 times this year. 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.