Thursday, 13 February 2025

The Longstreet Campaign

The Longstreet Campaign

The Union

Colonel Floyd "Parson" Farthingdale 
11th Massachusetts 
12th Massachusetts 
13th Massachusetts
Whigg's Blackhats 15th Massachusetts
All 10 base units

Floyd is an ardent abolitionist and Minister of the 5th Lutheran Fire Eaters.  He fights holding a copy of the King James Bible.  A proud son of Massachusetts

The Confederacy

Colonel Quincy Whitmore
San Antonio Academy Regiment 
12 bases
6th Texas 8 bases
7th Texas 10 bases
9th Texas 10 bases

A professor at the San Antonio Academy where he taught Latin, he has had a varied and storied career.  Still enrolled a Captain in the Texas Rangers he is rumoured to have been an Officer in the Prussian army at Waterloo, and a Sea Captain.  He rules his troops with the same willow switch he used to beat his young students when they failed to conjugate Latin.

Colonel Gaston Auguste Parker 
1st Louisiana Fire Zouaves 6 bases
2nd Louisiana Fire Zouaves 6 bases
6th Louisiana 10 bases
8th Louisiana 10 bases
10th Carolina 8 bases

Famed on Bourbon Street the last bastion of decadency in the States, Colonel Parker is from "old money" in Louisiana.  Known for brandishing a silver plated Remington revolver, he raised and equipped his Zouaves, and perhaps for this, and not his Bourbon street adventures, he is known as "Red Pants Parker."

Colonel J.E.B Quilp
1st Virginia Light Horse
1st Carolina Cavaliers
3rd Louisiana Dragoons
1st Richmond Light Horse Battery

Colonel Quilp was formerly a Head of Sciences at Harvard, and is a close personal friend of Professor Bunsen.  He is a total hypochondriac who employs the somewhat creepy Doctor Lecter as his personal physician.


1861 - Manassas
1862 - The Peninsula 
1862 - The Seven Days
1862 - Northern Virginia
1862 - Maryland
1862 - Fredericksburg
1863 - Chancellorsville
1863 - Gettysburg
1864 - The Wilderness



Nine battles are fought, each representing part of a larger engagement.  Campaign cards are used between the battles to steer the games.  The Union Brigade will face either of the Confederate ones, and at Gettysburg and will face both together.

The scenario games above will be slotted into the historical context of the current battle, and will be generated randomly.

Losses may be replaced, depending on the campaign cards and the Officers will be promoted during the war.  

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