102 Sailor's Creek I, April 6th, 1865 - WDS Campaign Petersburg

Sailor's Creek could also be known as the penultimate battle of the Civil War. Having abandoned the defense of Petersburg and Richmond, General Robert E Lee was attempting to move the remnants of his army west, in the hopes of joining with General Joseph Johnston's Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. If successful, Lee hoped to continue the war until the North became too weary and sued for peace. Divided into a three part battle, this portion of the Sailor's Creek battle is known as the battle for Lockett's Farm. Here Gordon's Confederate 2nd Corps was tasked with the mission to see the army's wagon train safely moved across the double bridge at the lower portion of Sailor's Creek, and rejoined with the main army in retreat. In pursuit was Humphreys's II Corps. It seems that only darkness and Gordon can now save the wagons from falling into Union hands. In order to simulate the Union mission of capturing the supply wagon before darkness can prevent their escape, they have been fixed in place. The win, the Union must capture the supply wagons. NOTE: Several of the Confederates regiments (a common Civil War practice) have been consolidated to enhance their fighting ability. Also, as this scenario is supply wagon centric, they are been emplaced to prevent movement. DESIGN NOTE: The Confederate wagons are emplaced in order to simulate that historically, most of the wagons were lost when the double bridges collasped under the strain of heavy wagon movement.