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Drewenkiewicz, John and Poole, AdamWARGAMING IN HISTORY Vol. 3: ACW Five Battles Includes Gettysburg; Brandy Station, Barlow's Knoll, Sickles' Folly, and Pickett's Charge. Illustrated throughout in color. This series is now well understood as one of the major classics of wargaming history. As with the two previous volumes, Gettysburg provides a detailed study of the actual battle and then uses the military challenges of important phases of the battle to create a series of wargames. In this case Fire & Fury Regimental rules are used and the scale, because of the volume of troops involved, is 15mm. The result gives much food for thought, especially the significance of artillery on the second day.1 vol, 160 pgs 2011 UK, KEN TROTMAN NEW-dj, back in print ......$60.00 ..see our WARGAMING
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McWilliams, BobWARGAMER #32: Napoleon at Lutzen GAME: Napoleon at Lutzen. Counters Unpunched. Magazine Features: * Lutzen - Historical background and Designer Notes * Paying the Toll on Hell's Highway - A winning strategy for Hell's Highway (VG) * Just One More Jump... - Game Review of Arnhem Bridge (Attactix) * Rommel in the Desert (GameP/Columbia) - Game Review and Designer's Response * A Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Wargaming - Carrier Force (SSI), After Pearl (Superware), and TSKFRC 58 (Jagdstaffel) * Games Rating Chart * Brigade Level Games of the Civil War - Comparative analysis of: Fury in the West, Gettysburg '77, Forward to Richmond, and Pickett's Charge * and more1 vol, 64 pgs 1984 US, THE WARGAMER MAGAZINE AS NEW-softcover unpunched, (1) copy each available ......$10.00 rct ..see our WARGAMING
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Brown, DavidPICKETT'S CHARGE Pickett's Charge is designed for Divisional and larger battles in the American Civil War, with the Regiment being the smallest maneuver element, the Brigade the lowest tactical command. A typical club night action involving several Brigades per side and a full day or weekend handling a Corps or two with ease. Includes rules for using both 15mm and 28mm figures, suggestions for organizing your armies with a point system, a guide to rating force, and an introductory scenario.1 vol, 82 pgs 2022 UK, TOO FAT LARDIES NEW-pb ......$40.00 ..see our WARGAMING RULES
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Hardy, MichaelGENERAL LEE'S IMMORTALS: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Two decades after the end of the Civil War, former Confederate officer Riddick Gatlin bewailed the lack of a history of North Carolina's Branch-Lane Brigade, within which he had served, complaining 'Who has ever written a line to tell of the sacrifices, the suffering and the ending of these more than immortal men?' Includes 88 images and 12 maps. Comprehensive history of the unit, including that infamous day at Chancellorsville when its members mistakenly shot Stonewall Jackson. Two months later they were in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, and thereafter throughout the titanic battles of 1864. In the meantime we learn of the camp-life and the hard winters of Lee's army. Yet when Lee finally surrendered at Appomattox, the Branch-Lane Brigade was still with him, no longer victors but yet unbowed.1 vol, 408 pgs 2018 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-softcover, available early October 2018 ......$19.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Hessler, JamesGETTYSBURG'S PEACH ORCHARD: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the Commanding Ground Along the Emmitsburg Road Hessler and Isenberg, both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides, combine the military aspects of the July 2, 1863 fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard. General Sickles's questionable advance forced Longstreet's artillery and infantry to fight for every inch of ground on the way to Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate attack crushed the Peach Orchard salient and other parts of the Union line and threatened the left flank of Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac. The command decisions made on and around the Sherfy property influenced actions on every part of the battlefield. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as Pickett's Charge.1 vol, 408 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available mid April 2023 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Hessler, James GETTYSBURG'S PEACH ORCHARD: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the Commanding Ground Along the Emmitsburg Road Hessler and Isenberg, both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides, combine the military aspects of the July 2, 1863 fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard. General Sickles's questionable advance forced Longstreet's artillery and infantry to fight for every inch of ground on the way to Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate attack crushed the Peach Orchard salient and other parts of the Union line and threatened the left flank of Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac. The command decisions made on and around the Sherfy property influenced actions on every part of the battlefield. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as Pickett's Charge.1 vol, 408 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb ......$25.00 discount: :15% inc ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Knight, CharlesFROM ARLINGTON TO APPOMATTOX: Robert E. Lee's Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865 This is not another Lee biography, but it is every bit as valuable as one, and perhaps more so. Focusing on where he was, who he was with, and what he was doing day by day offers an entirely different appreciation for Lee. Readers will come away with a fresh sense of his struggles, both personal and professional, and discover many things about Lee for the first time using his own correspondence and papers from his family, his staff, his lieutenants, and the men of his army. Lost in all of the military histories of the war, and even in most of the Lee biographies, is what the general was doing when he was out of history's public eye. We know Lee rode out to meet the survivors of Pickett's Charge and accept blame for the defeat, that he tried to lead the Texas Brigade in a counterattack to save the day at the Wilderness, and took a tearful ride from Wilmer McLean's house at Appomattox. But what of the other days? Where was Lee and what was he doing when the spotlight of history failed to illuminate him?1 vol, 576 pgs 2021 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available late June 2021 ......$40.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Tucker, Phillip ThomasBARKSDALE'S CHARGE: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner-from persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebel despair. But Pickett's Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never had a chance in the first place. The Confederacy's real 'high tide' at Gettysburg had come the afternoon before, during the swirling conflagration when Longstreet's corps first entered the battle, when the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Barksdale's Mississippi brigade, which launched what one (Union) observer called the 'grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man.' Barksdale's brigade was already renowned in the Army of Northern Virginia for its stand-alone fights at Fredericksburg. On the second day of Gettysburg it was just champing at the bit to go in. The Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. Hood's crack division was launched first, seizing Devil's Den, climbing Little Round Top, and hammering in the wheatfield. Then Longstreet began to launch McLaws' division, and finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead. The Mississippians, with their white-haired commander on horseback at their head, utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals desperately struggled to find units to stem the Rebel tide. One of Barksdale's regiments, the 21st Mississippi, veered off from the brigade in the chaos, rampaging across the field, overrunning Union battery after battery. The collapsing Federals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught. Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the day's fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units on their heights took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels, on a day that decided the fate of the nation. Barksdale's Charge describes the exact moment when the Confederacy reached its zenith, and the soldiers of the Northern states just barely succeeded in retaining their perfect Union. 1 vol, 384 pgs 2012 NEW-dj, available mid May 2013 ......$33.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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