Chancellorsville

The next game will be based on the Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863. To set the scene here are a few more Brady photographs recently unearthed in the Federal archives.

The Orange Turnpike - looking west towards Chancellorsville

Furnace Road - looking northeast towards Chancellorsville

Catharine Furnace - looking northwest towards Hazel Grove

The Orange Plank Road - looking north towards Wilderness Church

The table - looking west (click on the image for a closer look)

Crane's Station - The Battlefield

Here is the table layout for the soon to be fought Battle of Crane's Station, a hypothetical battle set during the Peninsula campaign of 1862. The Union forces led by George McClellan (the "Young Napoleon") are moving south to a new base of operations on the James River. The Rebels under Bobby Lee are attempting to stop them. It should be noted that this scenario has been devised by the Confederates which is why there is a suggestion in the previous post that McClellan's army is trying "to escape from the Peninsula". This is untrue, the Army of The Potomac is merely engaged in a routine change of base...

A birds-eye view of the battlefield (to see the map click here) 

The view from Beckettville (looking northwest) 

The Carter House (looking southwest) 

The Church on Westpoint Turnpike 

The view from The Sawmill looking north 

A train gets up steam ready to head north from Crane's Station

The battlefield is ready, all we need now are troops and the generals!

Reconnaissance #1

Union troops moving south on the Haymarket Road (towards Elington).