The Battle of Jenkins Turnpike, 1864

I've added a few new units to the American Civil War collection over the past few weeks so it was about time they saw some action.

This past Tuesday morning I hosted a game using the Pickett's Charge rules for Martyn using the collection. 

I was searching for some scenarios on line, but struggled to find anything, so just worked up a couple of one thousand point forces using the guide at the back of the rules. 

Martyn chose the Confederates and I took the Union.

The Confederates were off to a good start taking the initiative for several turns and preventing my Union forces from getting jump on them. Soon a mass of grey coated troops well screened by skirmishers were taking their toll on my line.

On my left my troops holding the elbow of the wall were forced back in disarray and the brigade commander on that side dithered for far too long and the Confederates were able to capitalize on this.

The calamity on my left was some what balanced on my right, the regiment of Zouaves supported by a unit of skirmishers on my right really held there own against the much greater number of Confederates supported by a screen of skirmishers. 

Eventually the, Union commanders were able to get their reserves into place and the line was steadied.

After about four hours play it was time to wrap up, although neither side had had any brigades broken, the Union forces had lost a battery and two regiments of foot while the Confederates had plenty of casualties spread across their units but has lost no units, we called a win for the Sesesh!