Perryville

Town in Boyle County, central Kentucky, USA, on the Chaplin River, 58 km/36 mi southwest of Lexington; population (1990) 800. On 8 October 1862 it was the scene of the largest battle in Kentucky of the American Civil War. A deadly standoff between Braxton Bragg's Confederate troops and Don Carlos Buell's Union forces, it resulted in 7,500 casualties. The battle was the South's last serious attempt to gain control of Kentucky.

Perryville is also the birthplace of novelist and poet Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881–1941).