We played a ad-hoc Fire & Fury meeting engagement, using units from the Gettysburg Order of Battle. The rebel trash had a slight numerical superiority in cavalry, the number of guns was equal, giving the Union a slight edge in that department. If you haven't already figured it out I was Union. The objective was to take and hold one of the small hills in the center of the table. I had Meredith's and Cutler's bdes, an 8 and a 10 stand E units. I was facing McLaws division: a 11, 8, and two 7 stand units, all but one 7 were E. Fortunately I had the close support of 4 batteries for most of the game, while the 4 confederate batteries on our half of the table deployed further back. I reached the objective first, and deployed my bdes in supported line, the Iron bde to the left, Cutler to the right, and the batteries further back; between my right, and the remaining 5 bdes of, Reynolds' corp. Kershaw's bde, supported by Barksdale, charged the Iron bde, 19 stands to 8. Semmes attack Cutler, but Wofford failed to go in, giving Cuttier the edge. The Iron bde failed to inflict any musketry casualties, and was forced back in disorder. Semmes was ripped apart by the fire from the 4 batteries, and was forced back beyond Wofford, with the loss of two stands. In order to clear the way for the artillery to fire enfilade into Kershaw and Barksdale, I charged Cutler into Wofford, knocking them back into Semmes. Both of whom rallied, and forced Cutler back on the hill. Kershaw & Mclaws were steadily forcing Meredith back, while taking artillery in the rear. On my right things were looking very grim, the rebels were about to make a break thru charge into the rear of a unit. That would make the right untenable, and my grand battery would be threatened. Fortunately the unit was only forced back a short distance, and we were able to form a new line on the right, and the I corp artillery was still able to support the center. Kershaw & McLaws had forced Meredith so far back, they were temporarily out of the battle, so the artillery was able to turned andsupport Cutler. This had the effect of taking Semmes & Wofford out of the battle. Meredith to his hardest lumps of a hard day at this point, and the sadly depleted Iron brigade fell further back; but considering the odds it fough against, it performed very well. Dispite only holding only half the objective, I would consider it a Union victory. We held the right, and pushed them back on the left. The one rebel break thru, penetrated too far, and was easily isolated. Back to Dispatch Jan. 99 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com