[H] Meeting Engagement Spotsylvania 8 May 1864 [+AI] (208-640508) - WDS Campaign Overland
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| Turns: | 236 |
| Type: | Custom |
| First Side: | CSA |
| Second Side: | Union |
(beta--30 min turns) After fighting to stalemate in the Wilderness, Grant turns right onto the Brock Road instead of retreating as Joe Hooker had done the year before, and Grant's soldiers cheer. For many of them, the road leads them to their deaths, but they know it is the beginning of the end of this bloody war. We see a race between Warren's Fifth Corps driving down the Brock Road through Todd's Tavern; and the Confederate First Corps, coming east from Shady Grove Church. Anderson is ahead of schedule. Initially directed to move out at 3 AM, Anderson moves sooner because he finds no place to bivouac in the burning Wilderness, with its thousands of dead and wounded men littering the forest and perishing in the flames. The Yanks, on the other hand, jam the roads, and Sheridan's cavalry blocks the Fifth Corps' movement. Meanwhile, Wilson's lone yankee cavalry division is nearing Spotsylvania from the northeast, with nobody to oppose the seizure of this most important objective. Stuart's Confederate cavalry must trade space for time, fighting a stubborn delaying action until Anderson arrives. Five days of unremitting combat begin....now!
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