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Battle of Perryville
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Battle of Perryville
The
Battle of Perryville
, also known as the
Battle of Chaplin Hills
, was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of
Perryville, Kentucky
, as the culmination of the
Confederate Heartland Offensive
(Kentucky Campaign) during the
American Civil War
.
Confederate
Gen.
Braxton Bragg
's
Army of Mississippi
won a tactical victory against primarily a single corps of Maj. Gen.
Don Carlos Buell
's
Union
Army of the Ohio
. The battle is considered a strategic Union victory, sometimes called the
Battle for Kentucky
, since Bragg withdrew to
Tennessee
soon thereafter. The Union retained control of the critical
border state
of
Kentucky
for the remainder of the war.
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