Salem's Church - May 3, 1863

Early in the game. The Union is advancing on the Confederate position. The CSA has two regiments positioned forward of the two brigades. They had managed to bring all of one up and where in the process of of bringing the second up. (Which began the game in column partially off the board.)

The Union continued to bring two of their brigades up on their right while appling pressure in the middle. (The south side of the board [bottom of the picture] was covered with heavy forest that was hard to move thru.) The Union was able to push the single CSA regiment off the fence.

The second CSA brigade had managed to get deployed behind the main CSA line of resistance. The USA brigades of the right continued to move forward.

(Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures of the middle part of the game.)

The USA then pushed part of the lead brigade on the right hand side forward, losing one regiment in the process. The CSA, sensing a chance to hurt the USA, counter-attacked when it got a long run of initatives. Unfortunately, this only exposed the CSA to devestating counter-attack from the USA as the second brigade came up on the right hand side and the brigade in the center got its act back together.

The last picture shows the CSA units trying to get back under cover in the woods to await the arrival of the last CSA brigade. (All the units on the left hand side of the board between the edge and the road are dead regiments.)

The game was a Union victory, but not a crushing one. (The CSA was real good at damaging the USA units, just not destroying them.)