The Elmwood Inn in Perryville, Kentucky is a historic building which served as a mansion, a battlefield hospital in 1862, as an academy during 1891–1925, and later as a restaurant and as a tea house,
The John Burton Mansion, later known as Elmwood Academy
Battle of Perryville
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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 O
Elmwood (Perryville, Kentucky)
…Elmwood Inn Fine Teas company. Built in 1842 by local merchant John Burton, the Greek Revival mansion was used as a makeshift hospital during the 1862 Battle of Perryville in the American Civil War. The handsome building served as a boarding school, the Elmwood Academy, from 1896 until 1924 under the care of headmaster…
The Battle of Perryville as depicted in Harper's Weekly
Kentucky-Tennessee, 1862
Western Theater: Movements April–August 1862
Western Theater: Confederate invasion of Kentucky (August–October 1862)