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Perryville Links
- Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site (Kentucky State Park)
- Roster by Company, 11th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A. The rosters were compiled from various sources by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry (nephew of Col. Chenault) in 1907.
- Virginia Yankee at Perryville—On the night of October 7, 1862, the eve of the Battle of Perryville, three Union officers sat around a campfire earnestly discussing the odds of being wounded in battle. Brigadier Generals James Jackson and William Terrill and Colonel George Webster decided to their satisfaction that the chances were actually quite slim, given the thousands of men involved in any battle. By the next afternoon, all three would be dead, cut down in the massive Confederate attack on the Union left flank at Perryville.
- Geology and the Civil War shows how topography and geology affected the war, including the Battle of Perryville.
- Introduction to Danville, Perryville, and Boyle County, Kentucky
Other Kentucky Civil War Links
- Kentucky Civil War Map of Battles and battle descriptions
- Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Civil War in Southeast Kentucky, by Holly Timm, is a historical essay which includes a bibliography of primary sources.
- Kentucky Civil War section from the University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Government Publications Division
- Civil War Sites Preservation Program of the Kentucky Heritage Council
- Battle for the Bluegrass from thehistorynet.com
- Munfordville, Kentucky proudly preserves its Civil War heritage—including, some say, a wartime ghost.
- Railroads and the Civil War at the Bullitt County history site
- Camp Wildcat Battlefield is located in northern Laurel County, Kentucky. The Battle of Wildcat Mountain was fought from the early afternoon of October 20 to the night of October 21, 1861.
- Slavery, the Civil War, and Post-War Black History at The Internet Club
- Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
- Lexington, Kentucky Civil War Heritage from the Lexington tourism board
- Fort Duffield, West Point, Kentucky
- The Battle of Sacramento details a battle fought in McLean County on December 28, 1861 that marked Nathan Bedford Forrest’s first combat.
General Civil War Links
- The Civil War from PBS is the companion site to the Ken Burns documentary series.
- Selected Civil War photographs from the Library of Congress
- Women of the American Civil War is part of the excellent American Civil War site.
- America’s Civil War magazine from thehistorynet.com
- Civil War losses—More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of America’s other wars combined.
- Shotgun’s Home of the American Civil War includes his favorite Civil War links.
- Civil War Heritage Web Ring
- The American Civil War Homepage is a comprehensive link page.
Other KET Resources
- Kentucky Life Program 210 The Blue and the Gray at Perryville
- Kentucky Life Program 516 The Battle of Mill Springs
Kentucky Government Resources
The Civil War Discovery Trail is a national preservation and heritage tourism project developed by the Civil War Trust in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, and state and community historic organizations. For a free booklet about the trail, call toll-free, (800) CW-TRUST.
- Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Junior Historical Society
- The Manuscripts and Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University include Civil War documents in the Lewis-Starling Collection (not online).
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