Micro Table Battles - Part Thirteen.

The confederate soldiers spent much of the rest of that morning and afternoon, gathering wounded and dying men, the dead were also collected, and burial parties of captured Union troops set about the task of interring the casualties of both sides. Surgeons worked on the wounded in a medical tent, set up the purpose.
It was late afternoon before the wagons carrying the severely wounded could be loaded, it had been decided that they would follow the column north, rather than head south. Generals Archer and Davis had decided to break out the northern entrance to the valley. They would then move north west, in the hope of discovering the Army of General Lee, which they knew to be west of their current position.


Map of the next table.

The head of the Confederate column passes through the farming community of Garton.

It was decided that they would make camp just north of the town.

As it will be a new table and a new day, June 7th, a roll for reinforcements was made.

Nothing for the rebels, but a good haul for the Union.

1st Division commander Brigadier General Barlow had been horrified to learn that two of his three brigades had been lost, and that the enemy, apparently as strong as ever, was still moving north. His remaining brigade was quartered here in the large town of Newdale, guarding the northern entrance to the Crooked Valley.
He had been forced to telegraph his boss with news of the situation, and requesting reinforcements from 2nd Division, which was currently located some eight miles east of Newdale. The reply had been positive, a detachment of cavalry, a battery of artillery and two battalions of infantry from 2nd Division, would arrive at Newdale around nightfall.
The 107th Ohio and a steady trickle of survivors from various battalions, led by Ade Ames also arrived at Newdale just before dark.



Table 8, this is where the rebel force made camp for the night.

Artillery positions at the ready and pickets posted.

Dawn breaks, today will see another struggle for control of the valley.


When doing the research for these forces, I used the OOB from Gettysburg, I thought Barlow's 1st Division was made up of three brigades, but in fact it was only two, that of Ames and von Gilsa. As this is a parallel universe, I took the liberty of transferring a brigade from 2nd Division to his command to give him the third needed to keep this story flowing.

The two forces will collide on table 9, but more of that in the next post.