Altar of Freedom, Seven Pines

This was just a small re-orientation game for Altar of Freedom, ahead of running the Gibraltar of the West campaign. This game was straight out of All Quiet on the Pontiac, the Seven Pines scenario. 

Longstreet’s massively powerful Anderson’s Division barrelled through Seven Pines, sweeping Couch’s Division (Union IV Corps) before them. Keynes attempted to pivot Casey’s Division onto the left flank of Anderson’s Division, but Anderson merely split his Division, with one half chasing what was left of Couch’s Division back through their own HQ, while the other faced down the re-deploying Casey’s Division. 

However, Anderson’s Divisional artillery rolled up on the now exposed flank of Casey’s Division, causing them to fallback to the hill just North of Savage Station. Heintzelman (Union III Corps), on the Union right flank, was attempting to stabilise a front near Dr.Trent, awaiting Union reinforcements, but harassing fire from Hill’s Confederate Divisional artillery drove them back. This collapsed the Union bridgehead over the Chickahomany River to an unviable sized, so come nightfall, the Union army withdrew.