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Here are some screenies I took:
Again, the map is a work of art!

LP: I was reading about the battle, and it said there was two hedgerows and a cotton field that the federal troops charged across, that is what I thought was missing.

Again, the map is a work of art!

LP: I was reading about the battle, and it said there was two hedgerows and a cotton field that the federal troops charged across, that is what I thought was missing.

Thanks Hancock!

Interesting about the hedgerows and cotton field.. Those could have been in the open area in front of the fort. I'll have to get out my Secessionville book and see if Patrick Brenan mentions more details about that. If so, I'll get it in an update eventually, along with the bridge from the main land. Thanks again.

Nice work!

Fired up the game as the union player and took the fort after slowly outflanking it and posting a battery to blast the rebs from the left rear. Then the frontal assault. Those rebel 24 lb howitzers are deadly at close range.

Really liked the sky color, the water and the marshes. Was this battle fought at sunrise?

Regards, CJ.

Nice work!

Fired up the game as the union player and took the fort after slowly outflanking it and posting a battery to blast the rebs from the left rear. Then the frontal assault. Those rebel 24 lb howitzers are deadly at close range.

Really liked the sky color, the water and the marshes. Was this battle fought at sunrise?

Regards, CJ.

It was a predawn attack by the Federals.

Beautiful map! Thanks!

Now all we need is a new game function to adjust for the uselessness of my soaking wet powder after being dropped neck deep in the Goat Island swamps.

More likely sunset. Isn't the bright sky in the west ? I can just see the sun going down behind the tree. They probably landed pre-dawn then took all day to extricate themselves from the swamp and get their powder dry.

More likely sunset. Isn't the bright sky in the west ? I can just see the sun going down behind the tree. They probably landed pre-dawn then took all day to extricate themselves from the swamp and get their powder dry.

It's definitely sunrise not sunset. The Federals were entrenched at Grimball's Landing near the southern flank of the Confederates, not in a swamp. The swamps were on the mainland approaches to the Tower so had to be gone through to attack. It's interesting to note that the commander of the attack did so contrary to direct orders and was court-martialed afterwards.

Benham was a drunk, court-martialed, and he was hated by everyone except his own mother... :laugh:

And yet he still went on to be a successful engineer in the Army of the Potomac.

So, I'm guessing they found a place where he actually knew what was going on, instead of a Combat Command where he obviously didn't. :laugh:

Jack B)

No he just can't do it right. Seems Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham (C.O. of the Tennessee Division, Army of Tennessee) was the best combat drunk. The best, I am bored with a siege/inactivity drunk would be Grant. If I am not mistaken Benham graduated #1 or #2 in his class at West Point, he must not have found his penchant for the bottle yet.

But hands down, the best field commander to pull on the jug is J.C. "Mad One" "Sarge" Edwards. Give that man some Jameson and a Confederate Cavalry regiment and look out....Because you have just been routed.