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The Battle of Perryville

(#210) from Kentucky Life Program 210 (1996)

A tour of the site of Kentucky’s largest Civil War battle, at Perryville in Boyle County. Historian Kent Masterson Brown discusses the strategic importance of the October 1862 engagement, which drove the Confederate Army from Kentucky and ended its attempt to recapture the state.

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