The check on Forbes ' authority at Perryville was Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, chairman of the Federal Hospitalization Board, who represented controlling interests in the valuable hospital supplies.

It was at one time the biggest town in the county ; a vote was taken to move the county seat from Perryville to Bigelow, Bigelow won the vote, but the move was never made.

The town was founded in 1854, and was also known as Perryville.

The precursor to modern-day Perryville was Harbeson's Station, a fort alongside the Chaplin River, settled during the final stages of the American Revolution.

In 1961, Perryville and the surrounding area was made part of a National Historic Landmark area.

In 1973, the entire town of Perryville, because of the contribution the village has made toward American history, was put on the National Register of Historic Places.

Union General James S. Jackson, a Hopkinsville attorney before the war, was killed in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in October 1862.

Generally untouched by the American Civil War ( the nearest conflict was the Battle of Perryville, away ), the city grew significantly after the war.

Before incorporation ( 1882 ), the settlement was known as Lower Ferry ( circa 1695 ), Susquehanna ( circa 18th century ), and was finally named Perryville after Mary Perry, the wife of John Bateman.

During the 19th century, Perryville was the midway station for the Wilmington to Baltimore Rail Line.

During the American Civil War, the railway line between Perryville and Baltimore was destroyed.

A new state-of-the-art Perryville Branch of the Cecil County Public Library was opened during 2008.

The main line passed below Port Deposit, which was finally connected by a branch line in 1866, passing up the Susquehanna River from Perryville.

The town there was named after Perry by being called Perryville.

At one time Perryville was the capitol of the Choctaw Nation and County Seat of Tobucksy County.

During the War Between the States the Choctaw allied with the Confederate States of America ( CSA ) as the war reached Indian Territory a depot providing supplies to Confederate Forces in Indian Territory was set up at Perryville.

Major General James G. Blunt ( Union ) finding the Confederate supplies and realizing that Perryville was a major supply depot for Confederate forces ordered the town burned.

The Perryville branch of the railroad ( TMRC ) was known as the " Pea Vine ".

The previous county seat was in Perryville ( now English ) near present day Coalwood.

There they set up two churches, the first York Chapel, near present day Longtown, about southeast of Perryville, and in 1836 a second in Perryville itself.

As Nation " cleaned out " a number of local spots, it is believed that Perryville became the first location in the United States to exercise Local Option laws.

During 2010 Perryville opened the first casino in Maryland ( Hollywood Casino Perryville ).

He won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River.

He signed up as a private in the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and his regiment marched off to war first at Cheat Mountain, next in the Shenandoah Valley, then at Shiloh and Perryville.

* April-The first railroad car ferry in the U. S., the Susquehanna enters service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.

In April 1836 the first railroad car ferry in the U. S., the Susquehanna entered service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.

On 8 October 1862, Colonel Heg led his regiment into its first action at the Battle of Perryville.

Most of these settled in the uplands around Perryville in a place called the Barrens because of its open land.

They settled on the lands that were near the present city of Perryville.

Wood, who would become a Union Army general opposing Buckner at the Battle of Perryville and the Battle of Chickamauga during the Civil War.

* John Rodgers ( 1728 – 1791 ), colonel during the Revolutionary War and owner of Rodgers Tavern, Perryville, Maryland

However, the Battle of Perryville eventually forced the faculty to suspend classes for 13 days, the College's only cancellation during the Civil War.

Bragg's subordinate generals were near mutinous with their dissatisfaction of Bragg's command during his Kentucky campaign ( Battle of Perryville ) and Stones River.

After Shiloh he was appointed major general of volunteers and commanded the II Corps in the Army of the Ohio during the Perryville Campaign although his corps was only lightly engaged in the fighting.

Price, born in Perryville, Texas, served with the U. S. Marines from 1944 – 1946, and began singing for KRBC in Abilene, Texas during 1948.

ASP-Yuma, a 250-bed adult male prison which opened in 1987 became a part of the Perryville Complex in October 1992 until November 1995 when it became its own prison complex Arizona State Prison Complex-Yuma.

The battle Thomas foresaw occurred in October 1862, when the Army repulsed Gen. Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky at the Battle of Perryville.

During the 17th century, Lord Baltimore granted George Talbot of land which included the Perryville area.

During the Revolutionary War, Perryville served as a staging area for the Continental Army.

Hearing of the railroad plans to extend through Indian Territory and knowing that rich deposits of coal were in an area north of the town of Perryville, McAlester convinced Reynolds and Hannaford that Bucklucksy would be a more suitable and profitable location for the trading post.

The community was known by three different names: the name Young's Settlement was chosen, probably in honor of the Michael Young family ; Perryville, possibly for Perry Young, who was Michael Young's son ; and Hogeye.

Congressman Chandler signs autographs for students visiting from Perryville, Kentucky.

In 1981 three units of the Perryville Complex, San Pedro, Santa Cruz, and San Juan, for minimum and medium custody male inmates was opened.

Wounded slightly at Shiloh, Davis suffered a more severe wound at Perryville ; after recovering from the latter casualty he took on very active service as a courier for Coleman's Scouts.

When Amtrak commenced nationwide operations on May 1, 1971, the Broadway Limited continued to use the all-PRR route, with a split at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for trains to Washington, DC via Perryville, Maryland along the former Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, Columbia and Port Deposit Railway and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad until November 30, 1975.

His troops were successful in checking the last of the Confederate attacks and driving a Confederate brigade back through Perryville, but Gilbert was criticized for his slow action in battle and he was widely despised by the men in his corps for his actions as a martinet.

The locomotives were for use on its Penn Line between Perryville and Washington, DC.