114-650325-Last Campaign - WDS Forgotten Campaigns

(Historical 30 minute turns) Players may want to explore this particular scenario rather than competitively play the entire campaign. This scenario provides context for the Mobile campaigns, both in August 1864 and in March-April 1865. It compresses three weeks of maneuvering and fighting before Mobile surrendered into approximately six days. The war is ending. Lee is about to evacuate Richmond. Mobile, Alabama is held by a handful of troops, and could not threaten the mighty U.S. Army in any meaningful way, but here we are about to embark on the last campaign of the war. MajGen E R S Canby commands the federal troops. Remember Canby? He commanded the U.S. forces at the battle of Valverde, as a mere colonel, more than three long years ago. Why Mobile? Why now? It was said that once the U.S. Army put its hand to the plow it does not rest until the field is plowed. MajGen Dabney Maury, of Virginia, commands the rebel troops and most of his infantry is from the Army of Tennessee, having retreated all the way from Nashville after its total defeat in December 1864. References: Operational Art and the Campaigns for Mobile Bay, 1864-1865;" by Daniel W Jordan III; "Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign" by Chester G Hearn.