WinSPCW Scenario Testing - Antietam, morning, September 17, 1862

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I estimate that the brigades of Phelps, Gibbon, and Patrick have easily lost half their numbers. In an earlier post, I confused Hoffman's brigade with one of Meade's detached brigades. Regardless, his is the only intact brigade in Doubleday's division. Despite Phelps's successes, hard-won with even more bayonets and rifle butts, the division is too mauled and the rebs still in too much strength in the woods to continue the assault. With so many losses, I decide to call off the attack and establish a line in the North Woods.


At the cornfield, the fighting continues to be a brutal slugfest. Maneuver is almost impossible, as earch move forward initiates a hail of musketry and cannon fire, but Ricketts keeps his regiments fighting and giving it just as hard to the rebs. The Pennsylvania Reserves have checked Ewell, and backed by artillery, they establish a line in the East Woods, straddling Mumma Lane, and begin exchanging volleys with Ewell's Georgia regiments. End of turn 4.