Back to the Discussion Group, the Kentucky Campaign 1862-- Part 1

We've been doing a bunch of RoadTrippin' Through History on this topic when I started finding out about one of the three major Union leaders in the campaign, one Charles Champion Gilbert, whom I had never heard of.  That led to his brother, who also was breveted to a general,  Samuel A. Gilbert and then, people buried in the same cemeteries they are in.  That was quite a bit of RoadTrippin' but I found out a lot of interesting stuff.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand for the October 2021 discussion group in Crystal Lake at Panera Bread.

I based most of what I had to offer to the discussion on this list of ten facts about the Battle of Perryville from the American Battlefield Trust.

1.  The largest battle fought in Kentucky during the war.

2.   Considered the "High Water Mark" for the Confederacy in the West.

3.  At the time, it was the second bloodiest battle in the Western Theater..  The Battle of Shiloh was the first.

--Old Secesh