Collateral Damage: ‘Squire’ Bottom Founds a Confederate Cemetery

On the morning of October 8, 1862, Union Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio faced east across rolling terrain toward Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s Army of the Mississippi northwest of Perryville in Boyle County, Kentucky. Between the lines of Major General Alexander McCook’s I Corps of Buell’s army and Major General William …

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