Gettysburg is in Civy War twice: as a single free battle for the fishhook, and as a three-day campaign on John B. Bachelder's 1876 survey, with brigades and divisions placed where he put them.
Four scenarios, each playable from either side. Every battle runs five minutes on the clock against a Green, Regular or Veteran enemy: the attacker has to break the line before nightfall, the defender has to hold.
The whole battle on one field. As the Union, hold Cemetery Hill, Meade's headquarters and Little Round Top and turn back Lee's assault. As the Confederacy, strike the line, turn a flank and drive the Federals off Cemetery Ridge before they dig in for good.
Buford's two cavalry brigades, Gamble's and Devin's, are dismounted on the ridges west of town against Heth's division on the Chambersburg Pike. As the Union, hold Cemetery Hill until nightfall while the I Corps and Barlow's and Schurz's divisions of the XI Corps come up. As the Confederacy, take it first: Rodes comes down from Oak Hill and Early from the northeast.
Sickles has pushed the III Corps out to the Peach Orchard. Hood and McLaws strike the Union left through Devil's Den and the Wheatfield while Ewell presses Culp's Hill. Vincent's brigade and the 20th Maine hold Little Round Top, and Sedgwick's VI Corps arrives after a thirty-mile night march. As the Union, hold the ridge and Little Round Top; as the Confederacy, break a flank.
Garnett, Kemper and Armistead of Pickett's division, with Pettigrew and Trimble, step off Seminary Ridge for the copse of trees. Gibbon's and Hays's divisions hold the Angle and the stone wall, Stannard's Vermonters wait to wheel onto the flank, and Gregg and Custer face Stuart's cavalry to the east. As the Union, hold the Angle; as the Confederacy, break it.
In June 1863 Lee marched into Pennsylvania. The Army of the Potomac followed under George G. Meade, in command only a few days when the armies met at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.
On July 1 Heth's division ran into Buford's cavalry west of town. The Union I and XI Corps were driven back through the streets, but held Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill. On July 2 Lee attacked both ends of the Union fishhook; Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard and Little Round Top all saw desperate fighting, and the line bent without breaking. On July 3, after a bombardment by some 170 guns, about 12,500 men crossed open ground against the Union center. Pickett's division lost about 60 percent of its men and all three of its brigade commanders.
Lee retreated to Virginia on July 4, the same day Vicksburg surrendered, and never mounted another offensive on that scale. About 23,000 men were lost on each side.
Mostly free. The Gettysburg battle and Day 1 are free. Day 2 and Day 3 are part of the Historical Campaigns, a one-time purchase that also unlocks Antietam's Sunken Road and Burnside's Bridge and Shiloh's second day.
Thirteen battles, the Drill Field and the Field Manual are free. The Historical Campaigns, Grant's Campaigns and The Western Campaigns are optional one-time purchases that restore on every device signed in to the same Apple ID.
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