Union Monument in Perryville

Union Monument in Perryville
Union Monument in Perryville is located in Kentucky
Union Monument in Perryville
Union Monument in Perryville is located in the United States
Union Monument in Perryville
Nearest cityPerryville, Kentucky
Built1928
MPSCivil War Monuments of Kentucky
NRHP reference No.97000723[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 17, 1997

The Union Monument in Perryville is an historic monument located by the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, in the vicinity of Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County, Kentucky. It was built in 1928, sixty-six years after the Battle of Perryville, the bloodiest battle in Kentucky history, on October 8, 1862. There were 16,000 Union soldiers at the Battle of Perryville, with 4,276 combined killed, captured, wounded, and missing.[2][3]

The monument was created by a decree of the United States Congress on March 3, 1928. It is a granite obelisk, eighteen feet tall, and is one of only seven monuments to the war in Kentucky that honored the Union cause; the vast majority honored the Confederate States of America. Inscriptions are placed on the north and south sides of the monument.[2][4] All but one Union monument in Kentucky was erected by the Federal Government or private funds. The monument at Vanceburg, Kentucky is the only Union structure in Kentucky erected by public submission.

On July 17, 1997, the Union Monument in Perryville was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Three other monuments on this Multiple Property Submission are also in Boyle County. One of them, the Confederate Monument in Perryville, stands between the Union Monument and the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, a few yards away. The Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville is a mile away on private land at the Goodknight Cemetery. Like the Union monument, it was built in 1928, much later than the 1902 construction of the Confederate Monument. The other is in downtown Danville, Kentucky: the Confederate Monument in Danville.[5]

  • Monument on a cloudy day
    Monument on a cloudy day
  • Aura around monument
    Aura around monument
  • Driving circle around the monument
    Driving circle around the monument

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System – (#97000723)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Perryville, Kentucky trailsrus.com
  3. ^ Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, (University Press of Kentucky, 2001) pg.373
  4. ^ Brent, Joseph. Union Monument in Perryville NRHP Nomination Form (Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997)
  5. ^ Joseph E. Brent (January 8, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)