1862 Valley Campaign OOB Series for Mad Minute Games’ Take Command 2nd Manassas These OOBs were made using the Updated Community Mod Pack v1.2, mostly because it supports cavalry divisions. These OOBs use several CMP classes (i.e., C_Corps_TJACKSON, ArtBrig_Captain, C_ArtBrig_Captain, and CavDiv_Colonel, etc.). OB_Winchester (v) uses artillery brigades on both sides, and that is only possible with the CMP. If you are not using the CMP, the game will crash to desktop. I have another set of files that will run with the stock (unmodified) game. I will endeavor get a non-CMP set up in awahile. I have to re-organize the cavalry divisions first. PM me at MMG forums (Tacloban) if you want instructions on how make the OOBs playable without the CMP. I have slowly concocted a set of nine OOBs representing several of the relatively small battles that made up the 1862 Valley Campaign, often referred to as “Jackson’s Valley Campaign” since it essentially defined his legend. Six of the OOBs are semi-historical, that is, as historically accurate as I could make them with a reasonable amount of research and within the command structure of the game. Three OOBs are historical variants. These OOBs, indicated with a (v) on the end of the file name, are reasonable variations on the military situations of the 1862 Valley campaign. Just put these files into your “Open Play” folder and use them in (guess?) Open Play The OOBs are 1. Kernstown, February 23rd : Welcome to the War - Jackson’s only tactical defeat 2. McDowell, March 23rd : A very small (Jackson has no artillery or cavalry), but very nasty scrap on an Allegheny mountainside; The zenith of the Edward Johnson’s Army of the Northwest. 2a. McDowell XL Not a true variant since these additional regiments were all in the McDowell area, they just weren't commited during the battle of the 23rd. 3. Winchester, May 25th Jackson’s 22 regiments catch up with Banks’ 8. Jackson’s regiments are so depleted from straggling that the two sides are almost equal in terms of manpower. This OOB includes Front Royal on the 23rd and a cavalry engagement at Middletown on the 24th. 3a: Winchester (v) Jackson’s corps - April/May variety - against Banks’ V Corps (Williams, Shields, and Hatch). The historical variant is that Banks had kept his corps together at Front Royal/Winchester in late May. I couldn’t find much on the makeup of Shield’s division of that time, so I used a combination of the Kernstown and Port Republic OOBs for Shields. 4. Cross Keys, June 8th Fremont attacks Ewell, sort of. The Maryland Line was prominent in this battle. I experimented with having a Maryland Line, a division of the 1st Maryland, Baltimore Light Battery, and Co. A of 1st Maryland cavalry, but the one-regiment division didn't work too well in terms of movement and deployment. 5. Port Republic, June 9th Brutal scrum on the plain and in the woods. The troops that raided Port Republic on the morning of the 8th are included. Jackson commits his regiments in piecemeal fashion, saved only by Taylor’s Louisianans. 5a: Port Republic (v) This variant assumes that Fremont and Shields forces in the Port Republic area on June 8th & 9th had linked up to fight Jackson. This is essentially a combination of the semi-historical Cross Keys and Port Republic OOBs. It includes the small rear-guard action near Harrisonburg on June 6th (Ashby and Wyndham are present). 5b: Port Republic (v2) Same as 5a except Shield’s Division is complete; Ferry and Kimball’s brigades are included. Jackson’s in a heap-a-trouble now. (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Especially playing as the South, these OOBs are designed more or less to be played as overall commander. The bulk of the cavalry for each side is organized into its own division. I have some historical motivation for doing it this way. Although Jackson admired Ashby, he struggled with him (and lost) for control over “his” cavalry. Most divisions have some small cavalry detachments, really only useful for scouting. In terms of troop strength, some of the OOBs are decidedly one-sided. All though the opposing sides are both relatively small forces, there is a heck (careful, Ol’ Jack might hear you!) of a lot of artillery in some of these OOBs. This is all historical, as far as I can tell. The total manpower figures for each side in these OOBs are: 1. Kernstown, February 23rd: CSA 3,777 - USA 6,315 2. McDowell, March 23rd: CSA 3,997 - USA 2,907 2a. McDowell (v): CSA 5,993 - USA 4,394 3. Winchester, May 25th: CSA 10,420 - USA 6,451 3a: Winchester (v): CSA 12,184 - USA 15,043 4. Cross Keys, June 8th: CSA 8,534 - USA 6,315 5. Port Republic, June 9th: CSA 8,901 - USA 3,583 5a: Port Republic (v): CSA 10,632 - USA 17,144 5b: Port Republic (v2): CSA 11,996 - USA 20,534 ****************************************************************** Certain historical compromises were necessary to complete these OOBs I made a decent effort to be historically accurate. I bought and read books, scanned the Official Report on the War of the Rebellion, and, most significantly, asked the grognards at the MMG forum. You will notice that I had to take some historical liberties in order to utilize the TC2M OOB structure. With respect to the Port Republic / Cross Keys OOBs, the two federal forces (Fremont and Shields) were under different military districts with no common commander, save perhaps Halleck or Lincoln. I took the liberty of using General McDowell in overall command of the Union forces. This is not accurate as McDowell was in charge of Shields but not Fremont. Including Shields himself is also historical license because he never got to the battlefield. Fremont was a military boob, and Shields was not at his best during the campaign. If I put the whole Union force under one of them, neither would have a chance of being challenging as the enemy. Similarly, Jackson commanded his own division, and that of Ewell’s. So if Jackson is in overall command, who should be in charge of his old division? I have decided that Jackson’s cartographer, Jedediah Hotchkiss (a civilian, for crying out loud!), will lead Jackson’s division. Historically, Jackson did call on Hotchkiss to lead some of his units into position for battle, most notably at McDowell and in the woods at Port Republic. He seemed to be trusted by Jackson. Dabney was a blowhard, and Jackson’s other famous military aides, Sandie Pendleton and Kyd Douglas, were too young to lead a division. Also, I have the 21st Virginia Infantry under John M. Patton at (yes, George’s great uncle) Cross Keys and under Allen at Port Republic even though, at the time of those battles they away were on escort duty, delivering prisoners to the rear camps. They were too important to leave out. I have had a difficult time researching Historical regimental strengths. Especially in a campaign such as the 1862 Valley with so much arduous marching, both sides’ unit strengths were very fluid from day to day. I included accurate counts wherever I could. Some strengths are estimates from published sources, and a few are semi-educated guesses. Information on a unit’s weapons, especially small arms, was even more obscure to me. Same rule applies, wherever I could, I included as accurate information as possible. I tried to get a feel for the distribution of rifles to muskets and rifled cannons to smoothbore cannons within each army. Remember this is early war and even most of the northern troops did not have rifles yet. Please feel free to use this as you wish. It is certainbly not perfect and also not exactly historical, as I could not get complete info, such as troop strength, weapons, and ammo supply, on all the units. But it is pretty close. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Much of my information came from the following sources: Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants, Vol 1. Charles Scribner & Sons. 1942. (A must read, all 3 volumes, Chapter 24 is the best assessment of Jackson’s generalship, or of any famous general for that matter, that I have read.) Gallagher, Gary W. (Ed.). The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. UNC Press. 2003 This book has an entire chapter just on the 12th Georgia that NEVER ONCE indicates troop strength or weapons. Krick, Robert K. Conquering the Valley Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. LSU Press. 1996. This book focuses on the four day time frame, June 6 – 9, 1862. Very detailed and a good read. Good OOB for both sides, but very little in the way of hard numbers and that much is told anecdotally. Martin, David G., Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Da Capo Press 1994. Not much narrative, but OOB’s for the major engagements of the campaign. I think he got most of his strength data from Darryl Collins, or vice versa. Tanner, Robert G. Stonewall in the Valley. Stackpole Books. 1996. This book is light on the Union side, but it covers the whole campaign and presents multiple confederate OBs for various phases of the campaign. Just a few recommended websites: http://www.pathsofthecivilwar.com/PathsoftheCivilWar/ (good OOBs here) http://www.wvcivilwar.com/fedregts.shtml West Virginia Regiments (other states - Ohio, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland - also have good civil war history sites.) Two searchable online versions of the Official Record. (pretty fun reading, the generals on both sides were not very good at hiding their political biases) http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ANU4519-0015 http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/index.cfm http://www.civilwararchive.com/regim.htm (Unit Histories) http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/crossport.html (A fun photographic tour of the battlefields) http://www.stonewall.hut.ru/ (A little gem of a website from Russia! Lots of good info on the 1862 Valley campaign) And of course, last but not least: Mr. Shulte’s http://www.brettschulte.net/index.html Acknowledgement: After combing through these and much more, I was still stuck. I didn’t have nearly enough data to finish the OOB. Luckily, the nice knowledgeable, friendly, God-fearing, intelligent, sensitive, artistic, gallant, forth-(Well you know what I mean.) people at the MMG forums bailed me out. Especially one feller, goes by the name of Red Harvest, really dug deeply into his archives and gave me info that really helped me to get to the next level. Our correspondences in the MMG are here: http://www.madminutegames.com/MadMinuteBB/viewtopic.php?t=5272 This will sound arrogant, but I sincerely thank Adam and Norb for building such a wonderful game in their "spare" time. Sad that I have to state this but: I am not responsible for any damage to your computer components, or to your reputation, due to downloading the enclosed files. These files have been scanned by McAfee and by Spyware Doctor. Please try this OOB out and let me know of any comments or suggestions you may have. Thanks for reading and have fun. Tacloban October 2006