Battle of Perryville
The Dead
The battle of Perryville began on October 8, 1862. Perryville battlefield is one of the bloodiest battles in the cival war. The battle was fought between the Union army of Ohio and the confederate army of Mississippi . Perryville's homes and farms were left in rubble after the battle. The main force of the Union army had buried most of their dead in long trenches, But most of the confederate were still unburied a week after the battle. Union soldiers finnaly forced local residents to help them lay the dead in shallow trenches carved in the soil.