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If Abraham Lincoln was correct when he wrote a friend in September 1861 that losing Kentucky was nearly the same as losing the whole war, then why has it taken nearly a century and a half to write a definitive book on the defining battle for that state? Perryville was that battle, and only a minority of Americans recognize the name. Compared with Shiloh, Gettysburg, or Antietam, Perryville has been overlooked. Even the federal government permitted the Bluegrass State to establish its own park at the site rather than include Perryville in the national system. For all that time, there has been principally a single book devoted to the event. Kenneth Hafendorfer, Perryville: Battle for Kentucky (1981, 1991) remained the standard work until now. Modern studies of the entire Kentucky campaign of 1862 have been more forthcoming. Examples include James Lee McDonough, War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville (1994), and Earl J. Hess, Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River (2000). But, with appearance of Kenneth W. Noe's seminal study and supplemented by more general works on Civil War Kentucky as a whole, we may say that Perryville finally has received its due. Still, what is there about Noe's book on Perryville that commands our attention?
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