Battle of Perryville, Kentucky Page7
This page courtesy of Dave Smith
    

From the H.P. Bottom House, pictures perry0032.jpg and perry0033.jpg

The set of pictures perry0034.jpg through perry0049.jpg were taken on a walk from the H.P. Bottom House, east along the Mackville Pike, and following Bull Run Creek south several hundred yards before crossing into the “V” formed by the convergence of the two streams. The goal was to get as close to Peters Hill as possible. The view shed, I would note, like so many on the Perryville Battlefield, is very cool from that perspective.

    

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The H.P. Bottom House. The house is not tilted – the camera was

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From the H.P. Bottom House front yard, looking west at Loomis's Heights. Loomis's Union Battery was on the Heights, to the right of the Mackville Pike, which runs west through the center of the picture
   

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Looking east, from the east side of Doctor's Creek, at the current-day barn where Slocumb's Confederate Battery (the Washington Artillery) fired early in the battle

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Looking from the base of Bull Run Creek, at the intermediate hill, beyond which Peters Hill lies. The ground in front of you was the ground that Dan Adams's Confederate Brigade traveled on their way to flanking Lytle's Union position on Loomis's Heights. The Doctors Creek tree line is on the right

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