An order to take the rifle pits at the foot of a ridge, and four divisions that kept going to the top. Missionary Ridge is part of Grant's Campaigns in Civy War.
One scenario, 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.
Missionary Ridge
Grant's Campaigns
November 25, 1863 · 3:40 p.m.
As the Union, take the rifle pits at the foot of the ridge, then the crest. Thomas's four divisions go forward at the six-gun signal from Orchard Knob: Baird's, with Turchin's and Van Derveer's brigades; Wood's, with Willich's and Hazen's; Sheridan's, with Wagner's and Harker's; and Johnson's. Nobody has said what to do after the pits.
As the Confederacy, hold Missionary Ridge. Breckinridge's men are spread thin, half in the rifle pits below and half on top, among them Manigault's and Deas's brigades, Lewis's Orphan Brigade and Strahl's and Stovall's. The crest works were dug on the true summit, where they cannot see down the slope in front. Hold the pits, then the crest and Bragg's headquarters.
The battle
After Chickamauga, Bragg's army besieged the Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga from the heights above the town. Grant arrived in October to find the army starving, opened the 'Cracker Line' to feed it, and gathered reinforcements. On November 24 Hooker took Lookout Mountain; the next day Sherman was stalled against Cleburne at the north end of Missionary Ridge.
To draw troops off Sherman, Grant ordered Thomas's men to take the rifle pits at the base of the ridge. They took them in minutes, found them a death trap under fire from above, and kept going up the slope without orders. Watching from Orchard Knob, Grant demanded to know who had ordered the men up; Thomas said he had not. Regiments raced each other to the summit, the Confederate center gave way, and Bragg's army fled into Georgia.
Chattanooga, the railroad gateway to the Deep South, was saved and the road to Atlanta lay open. Within four months Lincoln gave Grant command of every Union army.
Free or paid
Paid: part of Grant's Campaigns, a one-time purchase of six battles from Champion Hill to Appomattox (Fort Donelson, the first, is free). The map is a period survey of the part of Missionary Ridge where Baird's and Wood's divisions attacked, from the Library of Congress.
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.