Fredericksburg Bloody Big Battles

A Fredericksburg scenario for Bloody Big Battles, and a big multiplayer game!

The Club President's glorious 15mm figures were on Divisional bases.

Dave "Don't throw two ones" Longstreet

 Shaun "Breeze block wall" Jackson

Vs

Dave "Benjamin" Franklin

Steven "Gordon" Sumner

Mike "Toyah" Willcox

Army of the Potomac 

Right Grand Division

Edwin V. Sumner

II Corps – Darius Couch

1 Hancock; 2 Howard; 3 French

IX Corps – Orlando Willcox

1 Burns; 2 Sturgis; 3 Getty

Center Grand Division

Joseph Hooker

III Corps – George Stoneman

1 Birney; 2 Sickles; 3 Whipple

V Corps – Daniel Butterfield

1 Griffin; 2 Sykes; 3 Humphreys

Left Grand Division

William B. Franklin

I Corps – John Reynolds

1 Doubleday; 2 Gibbon; 3 Meade

VI Corps – William F. Smith

1 Brooks; 2 Howe; 3 Newton

Reserve

Franz Sigel

XI Corps

1 McLean; 2 Steinwehr

Army of Northern Virginia

I Corps

James Longstreet

McLaws; Anderson; Pickett; Hood

Ransom's Division was also present/attached

II Corps

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

D.H. Hill; A.P. Hill; Early; Taliaferro

Cavalry Division

J.E.B. Stuart

Hampton; Fitz Lee; Rooney Lee; W.H.F. Lee; W. E. Jones

Reserve Artillery

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The Game.

Big table Great looking terrain
Sorry about the handbag, it wasn't mine!

But seriously!  Great looking terrain for BBB

Longstreet deploys

Jackson deploys to Longstreet's right.

And the Yanks cross the Rappahannock River.

And JEB Stuart, well dressed man if the Year 1862, skedaddles out with a masterly evade 

Meanwhile back at Fredericksburg the Union watch the heights before finally advancing 

They walk in front of the Confederate defences.

And a flank assault builds for Jackson's position

Longstreet is shown an open flank!

And the Confederate rules are punishing

The attack in front of Longstreet builds 

They are looking for the historical gap.  Unfortunately Longstreet fed a brigade towards Jackson to plug it.

Some good shooting drives back the right flank attack.

Longstreet's line suffers from those Union guns.

That flank attack stalls

JEB Stuart rides around the open flank.

And at the closing stages the Union are rocked 

Can they extract a retreat from the jaws of defeat?

Find out next week.