Battle of Perryville

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf battle
gptkbp:aftermath Union_forces_maintained_control_of_Kentucky
gptkbp:casualties Union: 4,211
Confederacy: 3,396
gptkbp:celebrates gptkb:Perryville_Battlefield_State_Historic_Site
annual reenactments
gptkbp:climate rainy and muddy
gptkbp:combatants gptkb:Confederacy
Union
gptkbp:commander Confederacy:_General_Braxton_Bragg
Union:_Major_General_Don_Carlos_Buell
gptkbp:date October 8, 1862
gptkbp:followedBy Battle of Stones River
gptkbp:historicalContext part_of_the_Kentucky_Campaign
gptkbp:historicalFigures gptkb:Philip_Sheridan
gptkb:William_J._Hardee
gptkb:Simon_Bolivar_Buckner
gptkb:Stephen_D._Lee
gptkb:Wade_Hampton
gptkb:James_B._McPherson
gptkb:Daniel_S._Donelson
gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkb:John_C._Breckinridge
gptkb:Robert_E._Lee
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
gptkb:George_B._McClellan
gptkb:John_Bell_Hood
gptkb:Joseph_E._Johnston
gptkb:Richard_Taylor
gptkb:William_Tecumseh_Sherman
gptkb:George_H._Thomas
gptkb:James_Longstreet
gptkb:George_Meade
gptkb:John_B._Hood
gptkb:J.E.B._Stuart
gptkb:Don_Carlos_Buell
gptkb:Leonidas_Polk
gptkb:Ambrose_Burnside
gptkb:Braxton_Bragg
gptkb:Clement_A._Evans
gptkb:Robert_Ransom_Jr.
gptkb:John_A._Logan
John C. Pemberton
gptkbp:historicalSignificance one of the bloodiest battles in Kentucky
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Battle of Perryville
gptkbp:landscape hilly and wooded
gptkbp:location gptkb:Perryville,_Kentucky
gptkbp:militaryRank defensive positions
gptkbp:notableBattle Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Vicksburg
gptkbp:outcome halted_Confederate_advance_into_Kentucky
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Battle_of_Munfordville
gptkbp:primaryMission gptkb:Official_Records_of_the_War_of_the_Rebellion
gptkbp:result Union victory
gptkbp:significance strategic victory for Union
gptkbp:strategicGoals control_of_Kentucky
gptkbp:tactics flanking maneuvers