Field Trip Flyer—Trip Overview

Field Trip Flyer—Guides, Cost, Hotel and Banquet Details

Battle Topics (from Flyer)

Tour Highlights (from Flyer)

Other Trip Guides and Guests

Crawford House Historical Marker

Crawford house served as Confederate Gen'l Braxton Bragg's HQ, while its spring was one of the few viable water sources
available during the drought-stricken autumn of 1862.

Guides at Crawford House

In the late 1830s, a line of buildings next to the Chaplin River
formed the basis of the village of Perryville.
Now called "Merchants' Row,"
these buildings still stand

Main Street Perryville Board Member Robbie Mays,

Perryville Merchants' Row

MRRT Group gathered
on Perryville Merchants' Row

Back of Merchants' Row
on the Chaplin River

Karrick-Parks House

The Karrick-Parks House in Perryville was used as a hospital to treat the wounded after the Battle of Perryville.

Harriet Karrick, a widow who lived there with eight children, left before the battle.

She returned a few days later to find her fence burned, her well almost dry and soldiers everywhere.

Perryville 1st Settlement Marker. (The area around this cave was the site of Perryville's original settlement, Harbison's Station. Named for its founder, James Harbison, the station was settled in the 1770s)

Bottom House

Henry P. Bottom was a landed Squire of what is now Boyle County, Kentucky.

The majority of the furious fighting took place on his property.

Bottom was a slaveholder, and it was Henry and his slaves who, a few days after the battle, buried the Confederate dead in two mass graves on what is now the Perryville Battlefield State Park.

His home was situated virtually in the middle of some of the hardest fighting that took place
on October 8, 1862.

Bottom House Seen from
the Perryville Battlefield

Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who fought at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units.

Informational Board commemorating the Artillery Duel
at Loomis Heights.

Kurt Holman,
Perryville Battlefield Park Manager.

Wagon Ride

Perryville Battlefield Park
Entrance.

Perryville Battlefield Park
Visitor Center.

Confederate Cemetery

Dye House & Grounds: Approx. 120 acres.
Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner's HQ during the Battle of Perryville.
Used as a field hospital after the battle

Stuart Sanders, Author

Hankla-Walker House

Ron Hankla (Owner)
at Hankla-Walker House

Wagon Ride to Goodnight Cemetery

Goodnight Cemetery—a private cemetery.
This monument erected by the United States in Goodnight Cemetery to mark the burial place of an unascertained number of Confederate soldiers said to have died while prisoners of war at the Goodnight farmhouse from wounds received at the battle of Perryville October 8, 1862.

Their graves cannot now be identified, and their names are unknown.

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