The Battle of Perryville with Chris Kolakowski
New for October 2026
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36m
Daz is joined by historian and author Christopher Kolakowski to discuss the Battle of Perryville.
The Battle of Perryville was fought on October 8, 1862. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi initially won a tactical victory against primarily a single corps of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Union Army of the Ohio. The battle is considered a strategic Union victory, sometimes called the Battle for Kentucky, since Bragg withdrew to Tennessee soon thereafter.
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