Battle of Perryville Small 320×209 Medium 640×417 Large 1024×668 Download Tiff Original 2400×1565 | (2.4 MB) Description The Battle of Perryville, also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills, was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky as the culmination of the Confederate Heartland Offensive during the Civil War. Keywords Battle of Chaplin Hills, Battle of Perryville, Civil War Galleries 1861-1865 Civil War Land Battles, Kentucky Source: Charles Carleton Coffin Drum-Beat of the Nation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915)