The Battle of Perryville
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Stuart Sanders, author of Perryville Under Fire, joins us to talk about how the battle affected the Civil War and the people of Perryville.
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Great information about Battle of Perryville. It would be great if Stuart Sanders would make an audio tour to listen to while doing the walking tour at the battlefield. We’ll check out his book.
That’s a great idea! Glad your enjoyed it and you’ll enjoy the book too!
I'm a descendent of John Kilgore who was at the battle of Perryville
Let’s Start With His Obit:
“An old battle-scarred veteran passed suddenly to his reward yesterday in the person of John Kilgore.
He had been living with his son, William B. Kilgore in the First Ward, and got up in the morning in good spirits and ate his usual breakfast. Half an hour later he was dead. Apoplexy seized him and the old man, past 75 years of age, yielded an easy victim.
He was a character in his day and was known by everybody. He talked of the Civil War almost constantly. He was not out in the service long, but he was there long enough to prove that his courage was undaunted in the cause.
He went out with the 98th Regiment of the Ohio Voluntary Infantry in the summer of ’62 and was assigned to Company G. In October of that year in the battle of Chapline Hill, near Perryville, Ky., John Kilgore received 24 bullet wounds and one shell wound.
He lay in the hospital till the spring of ’63 when he received an honorable discharge and came home to get along the best he could, carrying in different parts of his body, as he believed, 14 bullets that were never found, and he died in the belief that he carried these to the grave with him.”
And here’s a bit from another newspaper report:
“John Kilgore, of Co. G, was wounded five times, in the face and body four times. He continued to load and fire with the greatest coolness after he had been hit four times, and shot away all his ammunition.”
Learned a lot- thanks ( Grew up in Lexington- folks from Ohio originally)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! More to come on Sunday!
Was stationed in Danville years ago and have been to Perryville a few times. I was born exactly 100 years after the battle. It is a great battlefield to visit.
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