-Dedicated to Civil War episodes, battles, people and ships
that also appear in GMT’s Rebel Raiders
on the High Seas, my next game.
April 26, 1863
Historical Event: On this day “Fighting Joe” Hooker began his
much anticipated turning movement in a campaign that would lead to his epic and
classic humiliation at Chancellorsville.
That the march got off to a bad start, with torrential rains turning the
Virginia “roads” into muddy goo was seen by many as a bad omen – and right they
were!
Game Connection: No strategy survives first contact with
the weather, as card 59 “Mud-Bound” which the Confederate player can use to
frustrate and so educate his Union opponent shows.
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