Campaigns

AGEOD's American Civil War offers three types of game play based on the anticipated length of time required to play (or number of turns). A short game, lasing 1 to 10 turns, is referred to as scenario. If the game is between 11 turns and up to 30 turns it is called a Campaign. Games more than 30 turns, are considered Grand Campaigns.

Scenarios

Seeing the Elephant (Bull Run 1861 Battle Scenario) -- The First Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia. Unseasoned Union Army troops (35,000 men) under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell advanced across Bull Run against the equally unseasoned Confederate Army (32,500 men) under Brigadier Generals Joseph E. Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard. Despite the Union's early successes, its forces were routed and forced to retreat.

Bloody April (Shiloh 1862 Battle Scenario) -- The Battle of Shiloh was fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union Army of Major General Ulysses S. Grant and came very close to defeating the Union Forces. However, reinforcements from General Buell arrived in the evening and turned the tide the next morning, when he and Grant launched a counterattack along the entire line. The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union invasion of northern Mississippi.

Thunder at the Crossroads (Gettysburg 1863 Battle Scenario) -- The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 ‐ July 3, 1863), fought in, and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is frequently cited as the turning point of the war. Union Major General George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia. Between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were casualties in the three-day battle. In November of 1863, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the fallen and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address.

Campaigns

• 1861: The Civil War (April - Full 2 Theater Campaign)
• 1861: The Coming Fury (July - 2 Theater Campaign)
• 1862: Struggle for the Heartland (2 Theater Campaign)
• 1863: Triumph & Defeat (2 Theater Campaign)
• 1864: Bloody Roads South (2 Theater Campaign)
• 1861: The Civil War (April - Full 2 Theater Campaign)

Grand Campaigns

• 1861: The Civil War (April - Full 2 Theater Campaign)
• 1861: The Coming Fury (July - 2 Theater Campaign)
• 1862: Struggle for the Heartland (2 Theater Campaign)
• 1863: Triumph & Defeat (2 Theater Campaign)
• 1864: Bloody Roads South (2 Theater Campaign)