American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Gentlemen of the AotM,

As most of you know... the Army of the Mississippi has been engaged in an IntraArmy Tournament, which we refer to as the "King of the Hill" Tourney. The web page for the tournament is located here:

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Round Two of the Tournament is now completed and a number of Officer's are already many turns into their matches for Round Three. Here is the KotH - Round One Winner's Ribbon, which has been awarded to all of the following Officer's.

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<b><center>Fld Lt Tom Wight</center>
<center>Col Gregory Barnard</center>
<center>Lt Col Greg Davis</center>
<center>Lt Col Rich Walker</center>
<center>Major General Tom DeHoff</center>
<center>General Roger Hulinsky</center>
<center>Brig. General Mike Burns</center>
<center>Lt. General Kennon Whitehead</center></b>

Congratulations, gents! Keep up the fight! <salute>

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen,

I've just received news of some more promotions from the WTC Headquarters. The AotM has two more officers who have been promoted to Captain! That makes a total of four new Captains in the AotM for the month! Wow!

This time both of our newly promoted Officers are from the IV Corps! Lt Col DeStefano... would you please wrangle up Mike Wells and Tom Wight? Thank you, Sir! <salute>

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<center><b>CAPTAIN MIKE WELLS</b></center>

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<center><b>CAPTAIN TOM WIGHT</b></center>

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Gents... Congratulations on your promotions to Captain. I hope I'll have the pleasure of pinning the rank of Major on both of you shortly!

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen <salute>

Captains Wells and Wight, my congratulations on your promotions! It has indeed been a good month for the Army of the Mississippi, and unfortunately for the Yankees I believe our future will be even brighter. Well done gentlemen!

Nicodemus has volunteered to spring for the first round of drinks, as he found General Hulinsky's private stock while snooping around. A toast to the Army of the Mississippi!

Lt Col Neal Hebert
2nd Division, I Corps, AotM
"Gator Alley"
Adjutant, VMI

Gentlemen,

In the process of working on my Army Report for the month of October... I discovered a number of AotM Officer's whose recent promotions had yet to be announced. Tonight our promotions come from III Corps and IV Corps! Lt General Laabs and Lt Col DeStefano... would you please wrangle up Stewart Stiles, Herb Nagel, Earle Cook and Ian Travers? Thank you, gentlemen! <salute>

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<center><b>MAJOR STEWART STILES</b></center>

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<center><b>LT COLONEL HERB NAGEL</b></center>

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<center><b>LT COLONEL EARLE COOK</b></center>

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<center><b>MAJOR IAN TRAVERS</b></center>

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Gentlemen... Congratulations on your promotions! In fact, this is the second promotion for Stewart Stiles for the month as he was promoted to Captain and then again to Major. Shucks, I doubt he even got his Captain's rank sewed on his uniform before his next promotion arrived! Good job, Sir!

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen <salute>

With all of these promotions I fear we may be celebrating more than fighting!

Lt Col Nagel, Lt Col Cook and Major Travers I offer my congratulations on your promotions! Continued to success to each of you, although as I'm currently engaged against Lt Col Nagel in the KotH not too much success [:D]

Lt Col Neal Hebert
2nd Division, I Corps, AotM
"Gator Alley"
Adjutant, VMI

Gentlemen,

Good Morning! Would you like to share a cup of captured Yank coffee?

Major General Paul Kenney and I captured it from Major General David Groce's personal stash in a battle that we were involved in last week. The coffee was wrapped in a heavy piece of paper and I noticed some strange markings on it as I was pouring the coffee into the pot.

What do you make of it?

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It rather looks like a map of the western portion of Virginia and on into Ohio. Very strange...

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen,

The following Officer's have earned AotM Battle Citations for Victories against the Yanks in the month of October.

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<center><b>Major General Paul Kenney</b></center>

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<center>A Major Victory in 09Sep16094.</center>

<center><b>Colonel Robert Hardee</b></center>

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<center>For two Major Victories in 09Feb15155 & 09Sep16135.</center>

<center><b>Lt Col Nick DeStefano</b></center>

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<center>A Major Victory in 09Oct16159.</center>

Gentlemen, congratulations on your victories! I've posted your "Battle Citations" to the AotM web page.

Keep up the fight!

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen,

Each month the Army of the Mississippi awards the AotM "Citation for Gallantry" to the Officer who has the most completed victory turns versus Union opponents. This month our award winner is Colonel Robert Hardee who completed 90 turns in the two Major Victories he won this month! Congratulations, Sir! <salute>

Here is your ribbon, which has been posted to the AotM web page!

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And your Proof of Citation certificate.

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Congratulations on your achievement, Sir!

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Gentlemen <salute>

My congratulations to Colonel Hardee on his being awarded the Citation for Gallantry, as well as his two battle citations. Rob, my compliments for the fine manner in which you've represented the 2nd Division, I Corps. You do our division proud!

My congratulations also to Major General Kenney and Lieutenant Colonel DeStefano for their achievements on the battlefield. The Army of the Mississippi is stepping up the pressure and not to be taken lightly.

Keep up the fire!

Lt Col Neal Hebert
2nd Division, I Corps, AotM
"Gator Alley"
Adjutant, VMI

General Hulinsky <salute>

Sir, what might this map of Ohio and the western part of Virginia mean? I realize there may be northern spies snooping around, however Nicodemus has a very good nose for this type of vermin.

My regards,

Lt Col Neal Hebert
2nd Division, I Corps, AotM
"Gator Alley"
Adjutant, VMI

Gentlemen,

The following Officer's have earned AotM Maneuver Citations for maneuver games within the AotM in the month of October.

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<center><b>Lt General Lawrence Bertolino</b></center>

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<center>For 09Oct16157.</center>

<center><b>General Roger Hulinsky</b></center>

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<center>For 09Oct16157.</center>

<center><b>Brig. General Carlo Bonferroni</b></center>

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<center>For 09Apr15418.</center>

<center><b>Colonel Roberto Morresi</b></center>

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<center>For 09Apr15418.</center>

<center><b>Lt Col Rich Walker</b></center>

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<center>For 09Aug15936.</center>

<center><b>Brig. General Owen Evans</b></center>

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<center>For 09Aug15936.</center>

<center><b>Major General John Lindley</b></center>

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<center>For 09Oct16240.</center>

<center><b>Major General Bert Daniel</b></center>

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<center>For 09Aug16013.</center>

<center><b>Lt. General Kennon Whitehead</b></center>

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<center>For 09Aug16013.</center>

<center><b>Lt Colonel Neal Hebert</b></center>

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<center>For 09Oct16161.</center>

<center><b>Captain Tom Wight</b></center>

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<center>For 09Oct16161.</center>


A significant number of these maneuvers represent matches played in the KotH Tournament which has now entered Round Three of competition. <salute>

Congratulations, gentlemen!

General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America

Looks like some rebs spies have been looking in on our homes whilst we have been in the field crushing the rebellion beneath the heels of our boots!



"General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains."
-Major General George Meade, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, July 2, 1863

Lt. General Rusty Hodgkiss
VIII AoS
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Oh heck... I thought I'd concealed all the notations on the map! Why does this always happen to me? [:(]

Rusty... are those the actual birthplaces of those Yankee Generals? Or did you make them up? Heck, you're almost in West Virginia!

BTW... I noticed you didn't mark the hometowns of the Stoops and Pelini families? What's up with that? [;)]

Luckily, things have been set straight in Tenessee...sorry General Hulinsky...Pat put me up to it.



"General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains."
-Major General George Meade, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, July 2, 1863

Lt. General Rusty Hodgkiss
VIII AoS
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They are the actual hometowns. Sheridan was born in NY but grew up in Ohio. Custer's childhood home is about a 30 minute drive from my house. (I am right on the Ohio River, so yeah, almost WVa.) Rosecrans ended up buying a home, and eventually died, in Redondo Beach, right down the street from Pat.

BTW...congrats on the big win vs the Sooners!

"General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains."
-Major General George Meade, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, July 2, 1863

Lt. General Rusty Hodgkiss
VIII AoS
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