#Battle of Perryville

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1862 – At the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, “Little Phil” Sheridan is one of the key officers leading Union soldiers against the Confederate forces of Braxton Bragg.

Phil Sheridan’s parents John and Mary Meenagh Sheridan had emigrated from Co Cavan. Sheridan’s diminutive stature of five feet five inches earned him the nickname “Little Phil”. In his memoirs, Sheridan writes: “My parents, John and Mary Sheridan, came to America in 1830, having been induced by the representations of my father’s uncle, Thomas Gainor, then living in Albany, NY, to try their…

[southernprideyall2]

8 October 1862

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of Union General William R. Terrill, dated 1861—a year before his death in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.8 (before 1960)

316 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald"). 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska. 1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tatar rule over Moscow 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War. 1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal. 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria. 1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence. 1829 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials. 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident. 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville. 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out. 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators. 1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. 1918 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. 1939 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland. 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. 1943 – World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete. 1944 – World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen. 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. 1956 – The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.

[dixiedrudge]

Sergeant York - Today In Southern History

8 October 1918   On this date in 1918… During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Cpl. Alvin York single-handedly silenced German machine guns and captured 132 German prisoners.  For his actions, York was promoted to sergeant and became the most decorated American soldier of WWI. Other Years: 1862 – Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. 1944 –  Cpt. Bobbie Brown of Dublin, Georgia received the Medal of…

[blueridgeparkway-sept2024]

Day 3, Wed Sept 4: Hurricane (Charleston) to Huntington WV; to Boonesboro, Springfield, Bardstown and Elizabethville, Kentucky. 525 kms.

Started the day in Hurricane WV midway between Charleston and Huntington. The latter is the home of Marshall University of We Are Marshall fame. In 1970, a plane crash killed 70 members of the Marshall football team and staff and inspired the movie. Gone but not forgotten, the entire town of 46,800 is still covered in the team colors and festooned with The Herd and We Are Marshall slogans.

For much of the day, I will be riding along the Ohio River as it forms the border between Ohio and both WV and Kentucky, which means as I ride along in one state, I can literally look across the river at the other.

I waxed eloquent on WV yesterday, and today, it's Kentucky's turn. Kentucky actually hived off of Virginia in 1792. Today, with a pop of circa 4.5 million, it currently ranks 28th amongst the states in terms of prosperity.

It is indeed a fascinating state of verdant eastern Appalachian mountains, rich farmland (corn, soybeans and tobacco), ranch lands (cattle and horses), rustic old barns and mobile homes, sprawling farms and ranches, and historic homes and buildings. It is absolutely a fascinating state through which to ride.

Throw in its Civil War history with forts and epic battles, including the battles of Barbourville and Perryville, and the Civil War Fort above the town of Boonesboro (established in 1775 by Daniel Boone), all of through which I rode.

And the fact that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and living in Springfield, through which I rode today, when he was elected president.

Also, on my itinerary today was Bardstown, home of the Womens Civil War Museum and the designated bourbon capital of the world.

As far as stunning memories of the day, I would have to include the miles of low stone walls that lined so many of the farms. I could just imagine Union soldiers huddled behind them as Confederate soldiers charged them with guns firing and bayonet drawn.

On the other end of the fence equation were the miles and miles of classic wooden fences behind which stood sprawling ranch style homes and pastures full of beautiful horses of undoubtedly Kentucky Derby caliber.

And of course, the ubiquitous Baptist churches. Throw a stone in Kentucky, and you will very likely hit a Baptist church.

Yes, overall, Kentucky, you certainly made a mark today. I will definitely be back.

[lightdancer1]

The Battle of Antietam matters not least for the precise context of what followed it:

Antietam is one of those cases where a battle matters not for what the bloodshed in it actually did, which was extremely little, but for the political context around it and as such is a good example of why Clausewitz is the war theorist to read if one must read anyone. Specifically in 1862 in the fall after almost collapsing the so-called Confederacy reached its high tide where independence seemed to loom for it. Then at Perryville it crashed and burned in a classic case of what would happen with Bragg's dysfunctional army exposed to real battlefield conditions in the West, and in the East Lee's grander scheme to fight in Pennsylvania exploded when Special Orders no. 191 were picked up by two US soldiers, drawing his army and McClellan's into what is still the bloodiest single day in US history.

McClellan's sole battle he oversaw, it was a horrendously mismanaged sequence of piecemeal attacks that devoured lives by the thousands to lead Lee's bloodied army to retreat across the Potomac. In this half-victory Lincoln decided the time was now right to release the Emancipation Proclamation not as a display of weakness but strength, and a profound shift in how the war would subsequently be fought. From that point the tide of the US Army would be one of encroaching liberation, and the war of unification one of a revolutionary and increasingly remorseless total war of liberation.

[writer59january13]

Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious

Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two months later, on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Union-occupied Fort Sumter off the South Carolina coast. Starting but not completely reading a book... tantamount to being sacrilegious, especially when storied subject matter deals with heated issue as slavery, which essentially succinctly describes war between the states (purportedly started April 12, 1861 – and reputedly ended April 9, 1865) allegedly triggered at 4:30 ante meridian on April 12, 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event used to signify the beginning of the Civil War. Self imposed onerous obligation understanding difficult to comprehend thought provoking printed material subsequently generated system of the down overload mine (myopic) eyes see the words, but their meaning doth not compute, especially when an author chooses to write

in a bewildering, style, thus "Abort, Retry, Fail?" (or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?") an error message found in DOS operating systems, which prompts the end-user for a course of action arises within sixty plus shades of gray matter within me mind. At present my fascination and interest with American history temporarily appeased, whence yours truly envisions himself a Yankee in the Antebellum North thirstily drinking information detailing one figurative chapter concerning, detailing, giving The Civil War breadth, scope, width, et cetera a narrative spanning Fort Sumter to Perryville painstakingly written by the late Shelby Dade Foote. An overactive imagination of mine easily populated with sights, smells, and sounds linkedin to that rebellion (as ascribed by Abraham Lincoln) witnessing the secession of South Carolina followed by the secession of six more states— Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas– and the threat of secession by four more— Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. Though the internecine fighting weathered the test of eighty seven years since July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, voted unanimously to declare independence as the "United States of America". Two days later, on July 4, Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress not initially formed to declare independence. Bloody battlegrounds minted hard core military men, which soldiers when not fighting sang sentimental tunes about distant love—the popular “Lorena” and “Aura Lee” (which in the twentieth century became “Love Me Tender”) and “The Yellow Rose of Texas”— and songs of loss such as “The Vacant Chair.” Other tunes commemorated victory— “Marching Through Georgia” considered a vibrant evocation of Sherman's ... March to the Sea. Some even sprouted from prison life, such as "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Soldiers marched to the rollicking “Eatin’ Goober Peas;” they vented their war-weariness with “Hard Times; ” they sang about their life in “Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground; ” they were buried to the soulful strains of “Taps,” written for the dead of both sides in the Seven Days’ Battles. When the guns stopped, the survivors returned to the haunting notes of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”

[stephendowell]

Illinois 38th Infantry

My paternal grandfather’s great-uncle, Eli H. Dowell, was in the 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company K, of the Union Army during the American Civil War. His unit took place in many actions in what was considered “the war in the west”, including the major battles of Perryville, Stones River (Murfreesboro), and Chickamauga. Chronology of the regiment’s movements during the war: 38th…

[visuals-to-turn-u-on]

Work Selected for 2022 Kentucky Governor's Derby Exhibition

My photograph, Privy was selected to be part of the 2022 Governor’s Derby Exhibition arranged through the Kentucky Arts Council. On exhibit in the Capitol Rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol from May 7 through June 1, 2022, the exhibition is part of the ongoing series of activities that celebrate the iconic Kentucky Derby. Privy (2016, Perryville, Kentucky) (c) Steve Hoffman The photograph…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1862 – At the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, “Little Phil” Sheridan is one of the key officers leading Union soldiers against the Confederate forces of Braxton Bragg.

#OTD in 1862 – At the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, “Little Phil” Sheridan is one of the key officers leading Union soldiers against the Confederate forces of Braxton Bragg.

Phil Sheridan’s parents John and Mary Meenagh Sheridan had emigrated from Co Cavan. Sheridan’s diminutive stature of five feet five inches earned him the nickname “Little Phil”. In his memoirs, Sheridan writes: “My parents, John and Mary Sheridan, came to America in 1830, having been induced by the representations of my father’s uncle, Thomas Gainor, then living in Albany, NY, to try their…

[ndakota2a]

Other Submission ©️ Steve Hoffman While the previous post shows the selected photograph to the 2019 Governor's Derby Exhibition, this post shows the other photo I submitted, titled, Faded Glory (Battle of Perryville 2016).

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.8 (before 1940)

314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald"). 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska. 1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War. 1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal. 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria. 1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence. 1829 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials. 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident. 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville. 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out. 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators. 1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. 1918 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. 1939 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.

[dixiedrudge]

Patrick Cleburne at Shiloh or How to Learn Your Trade on the Fly, Part I

Help Dixie Defeat Big-Tech Censorship! Spread the Word! Like, Share, Re-Post, and Subscribe! There’s a lot more to see at our main page, Dixie Drudge! (Emerging Civil War) – Few Civil War commanders enjoy the high reputation of Patrick Cleburne. It is hard to find a battle where he did not excel, and his record reads as a roll-call of the Army of Tennessee’s career: Richmond, Perryville, Stones…

[katiethxrne]

Writing meme - 4, 6, 14

4.

Excerpt from my short story Weathervane.

Daphne once reigned supreme in the Pit.

She’d appear in the battling throng with a primal cry in her throat, elbow rapiers flashing out into ribs. While stray hands explored the expanse of her thighs and back with guitar-strung violence, their sweat slicking her arms and bare waist. They’d sweep her off her feet, and smash her into the earth with a savage joy.

Daphne would lay there, a mud-splattered angel, the bodies above her swaying and surging, as the shadows of their arms blocking the stars and moon. They fought a war above her, while her head spun and giggles sputtered from her bloodied mouth, pain growing from her neck and ribs, expanded down her spine, tears tingling the back of her throat, and scratching beneath eyelashes. The cuts on her palms opened, and where the blood touched the grass mushrooms began to grow.

For that moment, she was weightless and free, as trees and stars gleamed down while voices reaching her ears.

Their bellowing: “Open the fucking Pit!” repetitive, panicked, concerned. Hands yanked Daphne to her feet, dusting her off, patting her for broken bones, wiping away her blood with sacred liquor-stained palms, touching up her braids, and tugging off mushrooms now growing from her palms. She’d let herself be carried off into their winds, the last of the seeds sewn into her blood where they’d grow into her marrow.

The night would eventually break and dawn rise, with the party moving inside to shared beds and couch space.

Daphne would wake up the next afternoon, tongue heavy with stale beer, crawling from Trash House to the bus stop, legs swinging on cracked plastic, her nametag plastered to a blue Wal-Mart vest. Daphne’s skin tattooed with black, blue, and purple flowers budding along her shoulders and hips forming a garden on the expanse of her earthen skin.

Picking out mushrooms sprouting from behind her ears and dust away pollen on her shirt Daphne would sit head pressed to the glass, looking out onto the prairie.

Perryville was built around the river’s edge, hot springs, and copper deposits. They’d cut out old-growth trees, burying ponds in favor of lawns, basements built for seasonal tornados, and preparations for a Nuclear War that would never come. They’d torn out everything that made the land beautiful — scaring game, turning over fertile soil to sterilization, erecting brimstone churches, and brick storefronts.

Daphne, like everyone else in Perryville, rotting in her own unfulfilled promise. Just like every decaying house and Rockefeller family built in worship of a collapsing American.

It was a type of justice, Daphne would think, that Perryville is eaten alive by its own landscape, falling apart before the hostile ghosts. She enjoyed every closed storefront and foreclosure sign, and smiled when another U-haul left the town's borders.

Justice.

Daphne sat, the bus rolling under her feet, hitting every pothole and asphalt crack. Eyes fixated on golden grasses waving, beckoning her legs to run, to enjoy the angle of the sun on her nose. Closing her eyes from the scene, Daphne waited for her stop, rusting. She was rooted here, in this land, and waited for the day she'd wake up to the town in flames.

6.

I actually like writing tons of drabbles and snippets of random characters and pieces from my character's life. They sorta just live in my drafts, cause most aren't even plot it's just Slice Of Life writing. It can get kinda boring for anyone else I think for me to just extrapolate on some random werewolf party or Katie getting into stupid Auror shit, it's just for me and my character/writing development for my dumbass kid. I have a lot for Justin actually, and plenty for the Rangers. But I think if I posted every dumb drabble and snippet it would be Too Much.

14.

When it comes to my writing I actually took some advice from the Imagineering documentary on Disney+ about the 4 Levels of Detail of how these park designers made the Disneyland parks feel real. They go from the top to the tiniest design detail of how a door knocker would feel to a park goes. I think of this whenever I write my scenes - how a person can get immersed in the detail and design level of my writing, of my characters, to the point of it feels real and lived in. I want my writing to feel lived in, alive, and knowable. Create a knowable world, a knowable character.

So I think about how my characters would move within such a detailed space. Their physicality within the space they are currently inhabiting, or what's happening around them. I actively write my characters thinking in one shape or another in my longer para's, whether they have a memory or an internal narration. When it comes to my shorter replies I tend to focus more on dialogue, keeping the characters moving and talking, while also noting things happening around the space or how they are physically trying to interact with the other character.

I enjoy writing with a lot of imagery, using the five senses where I can to round out a reader's experience with the world. I want readers to see what I'm seeing and to know what I know. I don't think I even succeed half the time, but I want to try.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

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Last Song: In The Woods Somewhere by Hozier

Currently reading: I'm in the middle of Perryville: This Grand Havock of Battle, A Long Long Way, and Love Stories: Sex between Men Before Homosexuality

Currently watching: Time Team (always) and Le Bureau

Currently craving: Pesto pasta. Mmmm

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