The Battle of Mill Springs is over.
Turn 1: The Confederates have two infantry brigades, five cavalry units and six guns. Some extra units are fixed in the south and can't take part in an offensive movement. Heavy rain is falling and the visibility is limited to four hexes for this scenario.
My plan is to send four cavalry units to make contact with the Federals in the center or on the Mill Springs Road. The enemy may think that they are the avant-garde of my infantry division.
But Major General Crittenden will move on the Robertsport Road and if he is undetected, he will try to reach Jamestown Road and turn right to outflank the Federal defenders near the lone objective hex at Logan's Cross Road. With the capture of this 250 points objective and maybe the destruction of one or two batteries, I may gain the major victory.
Mid-game: We made contact with a single Union cavalry unit near the Brick Church on Mill Springs Road. Three of my cavalry units skirmish with the Federals and quickly gain the advantage. One cavalry company is less successful and is destroyed by the Union infantry near Little White Oak Creek, in the center of the map.
MG Crittenden is still undetected and keep his movement to the north.
Turn 20: The Federals must be in the center of the map but they are probably too far from my southern troops to reach them before the end of the scenario. Anyway, I will reinforce the southern group with my three cavalry units; my horsemen turn away and move south.
MG Crittenden is now on Jamestown Road and is coming very close to Logan's Cross Road. The two infantry brigades are now in line and they are ordered to take the hill just west of the objective.
End game: Surprisingly, MG Crittenden never saw a federal soldier in his march to Logan's Cross Road. My infantry takes the undefended objective and deploys to defend it from a last turn desperate assault.
But the Federals will not come... The Confederacy have a Minor Victory. The Union lost 15 infantrymen and 155 cavalrymen. The South lost 81 cavalrymen. Most important: with this victory, Kentucky remains in our possession.
With this result, the Confederacy receives 9 points and the Union 3 points for the 1st HACW.
Updated score:
<font color="red">CSA 33</font id="red">
<font color="limegreen">USA 35</font id="limegreen">
Lt. Col. Harold Lajoie 3/2/I/AoM, CSA.
