Both Harper’s Ferry and Leesburg fall without a fight and my troops revert to defense.
I’ll be disbanding a total of 15 first line infantry regiments 6 militia regiments and 3 artillery regiments at a cost of 63 VP and 1 NM. That makes up for the stuff the Confederates lost when their Army of the Shenandoah dissolved.
From what my recon lets me see, there is now about 3500 CV of confederate forces within 1 or 2 regions of my lines. I’ll have about 4000 CV left in the area after this disbandment (more as recent militia builds arrive), so I think I can easily keep things static in the east this year. Even if the confederates have another 1000+ CV in the FOW near Richmond I should be ok.
Meagher is aboard Farragut’s fleet and is given orders to distant unload at Fort Morgan 1 day south with assault at all costs orders. I’m hoping the marine regiment in the unit helps negate the amphibious assault penalties enough to let me take it by storm from sea.
Nothing happens in Kentucky and I order my fleets to move even deeper into its territory down the Donelson Narrows and Henry Ferry river regions.
Woods’ division has recovered some of its hits so I have it rejoin Grant and order Grant to cross to Lake TN. It’s a 14 day march so an attack probably won’t occur this turn.
In Missouri Polk’s Corp has appeared just west of Jefferson City. Hurlbut’s 10th division defends behind level 4 forts with a CV of 210 vs. Polk’s CV of 276. I’m hopeful he’ll do better than Hays did this turn. McCulloch attacked Hays and defeated him, thankfully no NM was lost. The city remains in the hands of a single militia regiment that spawned, so Hays should have time to get to Rolla to refit.
With only 67 supplies and 43 ammo in stocks at Springfield right now, its capture won’t be a huge boon to the confederates. Jefferson City and Rolla however both have very large supply stocks on hand, so I decide to adjust my defenses to deal with these two new strong confederate threats.
I start by ordering Lyons to Jefferson City. He’s having little effect in stamping out the Indian raiders and there’s really nothing vital out there. Next Sumner leaves the defense of Leavenworth to Caldwell’s division and also gets moved to Jefferson City.
That’ll give me a two division stack with no command penalties there. Milroy leaves Saint Louis and goes to Rolla where he too will command a two division stack with no penalties. That leaves three under strength divisions defending Saint Louis, so I rail in Franklin from Cincinnati to give them a two star commander as well.
West of Jefferson City, Lexington and Leavenworth both have a single small division on defense.
In the Indian Territories at Fort Arbuckle, Hindman leaves my two cavalry regiments unmolested and moves northwest to Fort Cobb. A single regiment spawned on defense and he set siege.
I spend all available funds on replacement chits this turn.
Jim
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