Blue-Belly Rundown by Barksdale

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Barksdale: Rebels
Athena: Yankees

The goal is to have the blue-bellies on the run by '62. Playing April '61 GC version 1.10.
I'll be using the follwing settings:


To speed things along I'll only be showing battle outcomes and key movements, with commentary, ofcourse. That is no economic or recruitment screenshots.

Time to get the bulge on.

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Not much going this first month of the war. Jefferson Davis decides to put an embargo on the white gold!


Davis is expecting a quick war. So this measure is only to boost the morale of the newly formed Confederate States of America.

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Confederate forces storm Ft. Sumter before the relief force arrives!


The next day Virginia Volunteers route a Yankee detachment at Harper's Ferry!


A stunning success for the Southern cause! Hurrah!

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Again not much to do in this first month of the struggle for independence.
Here is a stragic lvl shot of the situation in Virginia.


What are those wily volunteers from Winchester up to in Harper's Ferry?

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In order to slow down the Yankee invaders a series of Cavalry raids have been ordered.

The first is directed at a depot and railhead in WV.


The second's goal is the depot at Cairo IL.


It's rumoured that more Volunteers from throughout the Old Dominion have been ordered to Richmond immediately.

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Cowardly blue-bellies turn back in the face of danger!


Both raiding parties succeed in reaching their destination and proceed to carry out their destruction of Yankee supplies.



Yeehaw!

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Defenders of Manassas are overwhelmed by the Federalist invaders!


The Yankee Ft.Sumter garrison reinforcemnts have also seized Charleston!

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Spurred on by the tyrant in Washington, Federalists violate MO neutrality, and kill her citizens who stand up to defend her.


Lincoln will pay for this treachery!

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Again defenders of their home's are cut down by the ruthless blue-bellies.


The Sumter reinforcements who took Charleston are engaged!

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The situation in Virginia. Jackson and JJ have been ordered to abandon the valley and conduct a strategic retreat to Charlottesville to await future developments.

Holmes corps has been ordered to reinforce Magruder's outpost at Fredericksburg.


The situation in the west. Troops are ordered to concentrate around Corinth and Nashville until the blue-belly's show themselves. Polk's HQ is still at Memphis.


Price orders Missouri recruits to concentrate at Springfield.

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South Carolina troops route the remaining Yankee's and take back Charleston!


In Memphis Lyon leads a suicide assault against Polk's entrenched troops. Lincoln must have issued these lads hallucinagins.



Forces led by JJ are inexplicably defeated around Charlottesville. The yankees must have run out of hallucinagins and issued steroids in their place.

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Lincoln calls for more volunteers to surpress his former citizens! All this accomplishes, however, is a deeper devotion to the Southern cause!


In Virginia it appears JJ's detachment has become beseiged in Charlottesville by a smaller force. They are ordered prepare a sortie and drive away the aggressors. Bory moves his army HQ toward the rail junction at Gordonsville.


In MS and TN a small Federal force is scoping out Forts H & D. Polk's command remains static in Memphis as forces continue to funnel to Corinth and Nashville.


In Missouri Price is ordered to kick back, chill out, and await reinforcements.

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McDowell and his NVA superhuman soldiers smash into Holme's corps at Fredericksburg. Bory moves his HQ units in support. After a combined 40,000American casualties the battle ends in a stalemate.

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In Virginia, after a terrible battle against the superhuman northerners, it appears Holme's corps was forced to retreat. Holme's corps is ordered to rush to Richmond by rail. JJ and Jackson are ordered to board the rails at Charlottesville and get to Richmond in support. Bory's HQ group does the same.


The Federal zealots, after ruthlessly violating KY neutrality are spotted in Gallatin TN, under McClellan, just north of the Cumberland. Polk is dispatched to Nashville to protect the capital.


Price's promised reinforcements are beginning to make their way north into Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri. Not enough strength for an offensive quite yet, however.

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McDowell and the NVA lunge at Richmond before Jackson's corps is able to move up in support. Bory will hold at all costs anxiously awaiting the arrival of a fresh corps.


Foolishly, many Missouri recruits are ordered to assemble at Bloomington, which was recently liberated by state milita, rather than within the safety of Price's lines in Springfield. They must have got a hold of some of Lyon's hallucinagins and were quickly routed.

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With Jackson's corps one day away from the capital and more units moving up from the Carolina's the situation still looks bleak. Suffolk has been seized and there is a large force under Heintzelman south of the James River.


In Tennesse Polk gathers more forces at Nashville expecting to move out in the coming weeks against the expected Federal offensive.



Price continues to lay low in Missouri.

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Norfolk is stormed!


As is Lynchburg!


Artillery en route to aid in the defense of Richmond is captured!

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Bory can't believe his luck. McDowell's NVA has moved south of the James. JJ 's best guess is that they are searching for more steroids and hallucingens.
Quickly he gives 4 divisions to Jackson's with instructions to make for Washington. JJ and Bory will stay in Richmond with the other half of the army and dig in.


In Tennessee Polk is finally given the thumbs up to make a move and throw the blue-bellies out of the state.


Price and McCulloch continue to build up strength in the West.

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Norfolk falls to the Yankee invader!


Fort's H & D fall before Polk's relief force arrives!



Jackson seizes Alexandria and looks across the Potomac and is able to see the unfinished Capital building in the distance. Not even pondering why McDowell's NVA is not around he issues the orders to advance on the Yankee citadel and remove the tyrant, Lincoln, from power.

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Jackson positions his men for the final trust at Lincoln's treacherous seat of government. In Richmond, Bory and JJ keep digging in, anxiously awaiting news from Washington. All this while McDowell's NVA sits in Norfolk. The NVA must have found some of those hallucinagens...


Despite Polk's earlier repulse he manages to trap the new Federal defenders inside forts H & D. His issues assault orders to retake the forts.


With the arrival of the Watie and his Cherokee warriors the Missouri offensive is ready to start.

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The Suffolk Massacre. While Jackson is approaching Washington, McDowell's drug crazed NVA butchers the militia called out to defend their homes.


Battle for Washington. Jackson knows that the Divine Providence guided this Army of Virginians here and assured them victory in their noble cause.



Battle of Springfield. Price's men aren't left out of the action just yet as they whip a Federal force under Sumner.

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With Jackson's victorious divisions occupying Washington Lincoln finally agrees to peace. Jefferson Davis' terms: "All we ask is to be left alone"
As word spreads across the now two countries Southerner's rejoice while the blue-bellies hang their heads in despair. The war is over.