Why certain armies retreat

[dragoon47]

The plan at first manassas was to feint twice at the center and swing round for the main assault at the flank correct?

At least that's how I remember the Union strategy to be.

EDIT: Didn't notice the picture, where'd you get that from anyway?

A better example of a clusterf*** is Shiloh. Of the books I've read I believe 2 of them described the armies as "two mobs of armed boys" by the way that the battle went. I'm influenced twoards that point of view even more based on how it actually went, starting off with the surprise attack on Sherman and Prentiss, the defense of the Sunken Road, Johnston getting killed, Prentiss forced to surrender his entire division...now I want to read another book on it!

Murfreesboro is definetly one of the best examples of two armies with the same plan too.

Oh btw, I think I'm ready to move to a PBEM game now, just dusted off the case and started playing again, downloading the new patch now.

[arsan]

EDIT: Didn't notice the picture, where'd you get that from anyway?

From google
Doing a an image search about "Bull run map" or something like that

[dragoon47]

Google is always full of win !