Perryville, KY Reenactment Battle (1 Viewer)

[Terp152]

Went to Perryville, KY to watch the 150th anniversary reenactment battle yesterday. Commemorates the tactical victory by Braxton Bragg over DC Buell's army with over 7,000 combined casualties. Tactical victory for the South, but strategic victory for the North. Bragg was forced to withdraw, like so many of his "victories" and marked the permanent loss of Kentucky to the the Union. Beautiful fall day for the outting. Wonderful job by the reenactors. Chris

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Enjoyed viewing the pics. Thanks for posting. !

 

[GICOP]

Great pictures Chris, reminds me of my time in SOSCAN many years ago

http://www.soskan.co.uk/index.html

Cheers

Martyn

 

[lancer]

Looks like you had a fine day for it, Chris. One thing for sure, Bragg was the North's secret weapon. He HAD to be. How else does one explain his performances? Thanks for posting the shots. -- Al

 

[TomB]

Went to Perryville, KY to watch the 150th anniversary reenactment battle yesterday. Commemorates the tactical victory by Braxton Bragg over DC Buell's army with over 7,000 combined casualties. Tactical victory for the South, but strategic victory for the North. Bragg was forced to withdraw, like so many of his "victories" and marked the permanent loss of Kentucky to the the Union. Beautiful fall day for the outting. Wonderful job by the reenactors. Chris

Great pictures and a nice bit of history about the ACW which I am not too clued up on but find very interesting....the pic I find interesting is the one with the South at the bottom of the hill and the Union on the crest....did it really happen that way ?...TomB

 

[Terp152]

Great pictures and a nice bit of history about the ACW which I am not too clued up on but find very interesting....the pic I find interesting is the one with the South at the bottom of the hill and the Union on the crest....did it really happen that way ?...TomB

Hi Tom, glad you enjoyed the pics. There are many 150th anniversary battles coming in the next couple of yrs. Hope to get to Gettysburg next yr! I don't think the actual Perryville battle was fought on the hill depicted. It was mostly farm land and a cross roads. But it made for a dramatic setting. There are hundreds of Confederate soldiers buried under the statue. Chris

Great pictures Chris, reminds me of my time in SOSCAN many years ago

http://www.soskan.co.uk/index.html

Cheers

Martyn

Martyn, I knew there ACW reenactment units in the UK but had no idea they were so well done. Thanks for the link, I enjoyed looking at the pics on the site. Have to hear what your experiences were. I grew up wanting to get into ACW reenacting but when the time came, well, I just couldn't bear those wool uniforms in the hot weather. :rolleyes2: I did do WWII for a few yrs.

Enjoyed viewing the pics. Thanks for posting. !

Glad you enjoyed the pics PA.

Looks like you had a fine day for it, Chris. One thing for sure, Bragg was the North's secret weapon. He HAD to be. How else does one explain his performances? Thanks for posting the shots. -- Al

Al, I think you may be right concerning Bragg. :wink2: Chris

 

[UKReb]

Chris

A superb set of pictures-I especially like this one as a few of those Reb re-enactors sure ain't just lived on a diet of corn-husks and black eyed peas ^&grin

Don't know about your thoughts Chris but I have always believed that the Kentucky campaign (of which Perryville was part) and Sterling Price's Confederate offensive into Mississippi plus Lee's first Maryland campaign all being executed in the period of August-early October 1862 was the real Confederate High Tide rather than Gettysburg the following year. Many will disagree with me I know but this was the only time the Rebs had an almost co-ordinated advance in three areas during the whole of the war. Sure it all ended in tears for the Rebs with defeats at Perryville; Corinth and Antietam but if they had managed to pull off victories in these three areas it would most certainly have grabbed the attention of France and Britain.

For me Gettysburg was a last hurrah from a Confederacy that had already lost the war and not "The High Tide" connotation placed on it by most historians.

Bob

 

[Terp152]

Chris

A superb set of pictures-I especially like this one as a few of those Reb re-enactors sure ain't just lived on a diet of corn-husks and black eyed peas ^&grin

Don't know about your thoughts Chris but I have always believed that the Kentucky campaign (of which Perryville was part) and Sterling Price's Confederate offensive into Mississippi plus Lee's first Maryland campaign all being executed in the period of August-early October 1862 was the real Confederate High Tide rather than Gettysburg the following year. Many will disagree with me I know but this was the only time the Rebs had an almost co-ordinated advance in three areas during the whole of the war. Sure it all ended in tears for the Rebs with defeats at Perryville; Corinth and Antietam but if they had managed to pull off victories in these three areas it would most certainly have grabbed the attention of France and Britain.

For me Gettysburg was a last hurrah from a Confederacy that had already lost the war and not "The High Tide" connotation placed on it by most historians.

Bob

Bob, have to agree, the war was lost by Gettysburg, especially in the West. I think the South lost the war at Shiloh, the real chance to cripple the comination of Union armies before they began to "steam roll" the weaker Confederate forces.

I think the proper title to the photo below is "Why the South lost the war." Chris

 

[mestell]

Great photos of the event Chris. I too agree with Bob's (UK Reb) perspective on the war . . . by Gettysburg the South was already defeated, they just didn't want to recognize that. My wife's GG uncle John Aires Entsminger (Pvt, Co E, 52nd VA Inf) who fought at Culp's Hill on July 3. After Gettysburg, while on pickett duty on the Rapidan River, John wrote home to his brother (my wife's GG Grandfather) that the war was lost and that him killing another Yankee or him getting killed by a Yankee would not change its outcome.

In any regard great looking series of photos . . . brings back fond memories when I re-enacted and the two times that I particiapated in the Perryville event. Seems to me that the Confederates are getting older and more "portly" looking these days :wink2:

:smile2: Mike

 

[Terp152]

Hi Mike
"Seems to me that the Confederates are getting older and more "portly" looking these days "

Well, 150 yrs of campaigning will age you. :smile2:

Chris

 

[Harper (aka Spitfrnd)]

.....In any regard great looking series of photos . . . brings back fond memories when I re-enacted and the two times that I particiapated in the Perryville event. Seems to me that the Confederates are getting older and more "portly" looking these days :wink2:

:smile2: Mike

No doubt but I wouldn't exactly say that the Yankees look all that trim. It would seem that neither army is living off campaign rations.