The 2004 Bull Run Grudge Match
In 2004 the players known as Danny, Ekrommen, and Shiloh1 played the Bull Run scenario at TowerGames.com. Danny took command of the Confederates while Ekrommen and Shiloh1 took command of the Union forces. Following are two accounts of the battle from the opposing commander in chiefs.
Shiloh1′s point of view of the battle, for the Union
This battle seemed to inch forward, with each army tensely aware of the other, a nervous dance for position and then an explosion of relentless, unmitigated butchery where victory teetered in the balance right up to the final shot.
Our battleplan was to first concentrate our forces, then attack all out. This strategy hinged on a consolidation of the 1st and 2nd divisions on the hill above the Stone Bridge. This required our first division to arrive on the field, the 2nd, to move swiftly to that hill, to be in a position to both safeguard the crossing by the other division and to shell defenders on the east side of Henry Hill.
The enemy pushed his forward brigades far to the north in an apparent attempt to disrupt the 2nd Division’s advance. Instead, Bartow’s brigade walked into a quick encirclement. After receiving fire from all sides, Bartow took the sensible course and surrendered his brigade, preferring life with a loser’s reputation over death with glory. They don’t teach that at war college. .....
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