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Jennifer,
It is highly unlikely that you will find a list of the casualties at the Battle of Perryville. Numbers of casualties, yes, but not names.
The most direct route to find who/what you are seeking is to request his Compiled Military Service Record from the National Archives. To do this, you will need his name, Regiment Number, and Company Alphabetic identifier.
You can use the National Park Service to find this information:
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
I found this on another website:
"Most of the Confederates were buried where they fell. However, the Confederates who died on Henry P. Bottom's farm (which encompassed most of the battlefield) were buried in two mass graves on his property. This mass grave is now the Confederate Cemetery at the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. Some Confederates who died of wounds or disease are buried in Harrodsburg and Danville. The Union dead were first buried in regimental plots, but these troops were moved to the short-lived Perryville National Cemetery. Finally, these soldiers were interred in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, in Jessamine County, Kentucky. Of the more than 1,000 Union soldiers initially buried at Perryville, only 300 of them had their identification intact by the time they got to Camp Nelson. By World War I, the U.S. Army adopted what we now call "dog tags" to help identify dead soldiers. Since these were not used in the Civil War, many of the troops killed at Perryville are unknown soldiers."
Me again. If his family had him shipped home for burial, he is probably in a private cemetery or a cemetery affiliated with a church near to where he lived before the war.
I've found that local newspapers are good sources for tracking down burial sites. If you know where he lived and, if the town had a newspaper that was published in the mid 1800s, you may be able to find him that way. Back then, small to mid-sized towns would read the news from the city newspapers and extract and republish any information that was relevant to their area. In these newspapers you can find lists of men killed, wounded or missing in action from the battles. Either the local public library of the local historic society should be able to help you find any newspapers that existed back then.
Hope this helps,
Alice
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