A Little Civil War Action

Sunday’s regular game was and American Civil War event with five players (two Confederate and three Union).
 
The basis of the game was that the two forces are facing each other across a river with heavily wooded banks. The river was crossed by two bridges and was fordable at all points, but wide so would take two fill turns to cross. It was also deep so that those crossing were unable to fire when crossing. Each side has objectives on the opposite side of the table. The Union troops had an option to deploy some forces on our side of the river, beyond our extreme left.

 
I  fought on the Confederate side and between the two of us we commanded four infantry brigades (a total of 23 regiments), a small cavalry brigade (2 regiments) and six batteries fought six Union infantry brigades (30 regiments), three independent cavalry regiments and six batteries.
 
We spread our brigades across the table as best we could. On the left one brigade was in a forward position on the Yankee side of the river, with the second brigade in reserve in the town. The cavalry took post on the extreme left to face any Yankees that deployed on our side of the table. My two brigades were spread along my section of the river with one brigade forward on the river edge and one in reserve. 

The Yankees deployed the bulk of their forces against our left (including one brigade across the river) and advanced rapidly on our forward brigade.
 

Our cavalry, supported by some infantry from the reserve face off against the Yankee 
 

On the opposite flank the Yankees began to cross the river. An initial attempt resulted in a bloody repulse

But an attempt further to our right succeeded 
 

 
In the centre the fight became a confused mess in the woods
 

 
Although an attempt to push some unsupported artillery across the bridge resulted in an expected disaster
 

While on my flank I held off a flanking move by some Yankee cavalry and my artillery repulsed another attack.
 

Soon, however, the Yankees on our extreme left were stirred into action.

 
Despite a valiant effort by our brave defenders on the left, this proved to be the end of us.
 

 
The Yankees won but a reasonable part of my command got away to fight another day.