Pipe Creek

[william1993]

I am going to play this for the first time. I will play the scenario where I have to Hold off the Confederates from the Pipe Creek Line. I got just over 16,000 folks and they got about 21-22,000 folks. Wish me luck. Those Rebs are raunchy!

[Little Powell]

Good luck! You're gonna need it.

[Amish John]

Go get 'em, Bill! Good luck. Let us know how it goes. Pennsylvania yankee here, but I've got relatives in Mississippi.

[william1993]

So far it was going good. I massed 5 batteries on the central line, detached my sharpshooters, and shot Hood's Division to bits. This was in the center. In the area between the center and the left flank, I had Humphrey's Division. They were somewhat devoid of artillery so McLaw's division almost broke my right flank. I had to get an unengaged Division of the First Corps to hold them up. This fight is stil going on but Wofford's and Barksdale's brigades are slaughtered. I feel confident I shall surround them. On the far left flank, two tiny unengaged brigades are chasing Longstreet's Corps artillery, having caught them limbered. McLaws' division came close to ripping my army in two. The tiny regiments, like the ones between 50-150 men, must have known the predicament because they stood on the heights and shot and shot until they were literally shot down in a line. See here. The battle map.




The little area with only a few confederate symbols is where Hood's Division was. The area with all those Union symbols clustering around those confederate symbols is the area where we are trying to contain McLaws. If he was just to outright charge, I think he would break through.