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.
North Anna
River Crossings
May 24, 1864 · 4 p.m.
As the Union, break the Confederate V: take the Ox Ford bluff or Hanover Junction. Hancock's three divisions are across on the left, Warren is across on the right with Wright's Sixth Corps behind him, Burnside faces the ford, and Ledlie's brigade has just crossed at Quarles Mill. Your army is split by the river. Feed the corps over together and hit one arm hard before Lee can shift men across the short side.
As the Confederacy, hold the V and keep the Ox Ford bluff and the railroad at Hanover Junction. Hill's corps holds the left arm, with Mahone's division and Perry's Florida brigade nearest the point; Anderson's corps holds the point and Ewell's the right arm, with Breckinridge's men behind. You can move from one arm to the other in an hour. Hold the works and let them come to you.
The battle
After the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, Grant kept moving south around Lee's right, and on May 23, 1864 his army reached the North Anna River, twenty-five miles north of Richmond. Hancock stormed the redoubt at the Chesterfield bridge, and Warren crossed upstream at Jericho Mill and beat off A. P. Hill's evening attack. Lee seemed to be falling back. Instead, overnight he drew his army into an inverted V with its point on the bluff at Ox Ford, leaving Grant's two wings on either side of it with the river between them.
On May 24 Grant's wings felt the V and found it too strong. On the west face of the point, James Ledlie, drunk, threw his brigade of Massachusetts regiments and regulars at Mahone's works near Ox Ford in a thunderstorm, and Harris's Mississippians drove them back to the river. On the east arm Gibbon's division pushed in the skirmishers and stopped at the main line. Lee was bedridden with dysentery and had no corps commander he trusted to strike, so the counterstroke he wanted never came.
Over the four days at the river the Union lost about 2,600 men and the Confederates about 1,800 to 2,000. Perry's Florida brigade, led since the Wilderness by Colonel David Lang, held the west arm in Mahone's division. On the night of May 26 Grant recrossed the river and marched around Lee's right toward Cold Harbor.
Free or paid
Paid: part of River Crossings, a one-time purchase that unlocks Dam No. 1, Fredericksburg, North Anna and Natural Bridge (Ball's Bluff, the first, is free). The map is the survey of the North Anna battlefields made for the Army of the Potomac under J. C. Duane by C. W. Howell, printed about 1865.
Fourteen battles, the Drill Field and the Field Manual are free. The Historical Campaigns, Grant's Campaigns, The Western Campaigns and River Crossings are optional one-time purchases that restore on every device signed in to the same Apple ID.