Perryville

Some people say it was a disaster, probably in the middle.

But the only major battle is the Battle of Perryville, which is technically a loss.

Tactically, the Confederacy has the advantage at the end of the day, but the Union is going to get a ton of reinforcements the second day.

And Bragg decides to retreat, leaving the Union in control of the battlefield.

But he then meets the Union Army in central Tennessee at the Battle of Murfreesboro, also called the Battle of Stones River.

Different names for the same battle.

And there, again, first day, like at Perryville, he has great success the first day.

The second day, he loses momentum and is forced to retreat.

In playing the puzzle, you might know, what's Lee going to do next? What's Joe Johnston going to do next? What's my general...

Don Carlos Buell going to do there at Perryville, a key victory in Kentucky that if we lose Perryville, we'll lose Kentucky, Kentucky will become Confederate, and we'll lose the whole game.

Mm-hmm.

Information was just as essential then as it is now.

Both Gladstone and Russell advocated joint action, not only from Great Britain and France, but Russia, Prussia, and Austria as well.

Many have thought that the defeats at Antietam, Perryville, Kentucky, and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation killed all hopes of European mediation, but it appears that actually mediation was not dead at all.

The timing for it was simply...

It just wasn't the right time.