| Rating: |
7.58 (18) |
| Games Played: |
20 |
| SM: |
1 |
| Turns: |
12 |
| Type: |
Custom |
| First Side: |
CSA |
| Second Side: |
Union |
(HISTORICAL) Confederate Major General Sterling Price, ordered by General Bragg to join him in his Kentucky Campaign and despairing of ever getting cooperation from Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, struck north at the Union garrison and depot at Iuka, Mississippi. Price realized it would not be feasible to join Bragg with large Union garrisons on his flank and rear but he felt he must do something to satisfy Bragg's orders. Chasing away the small garrison, Price entered Iuka on Sept. 14th, his famished troops gorging themselves on captured stores. On the 17th, West Tennessee department commander Major General U.S. Grant, seeing an opportunity to crush Price at Iuka, ordered a two pronged attack. The left wing, under Maj. Gen. E.O.C. Ord, would take the divisions of Ross, McArthur and Davies and advance southeast to Iuka via Burnsville. Meanwhile, Rosecrans, with the divisions of Hamilton and Stanley, would attack Iuka from the south. Ord was to advance upon hearing the guns of Rosecrans' force. Blaming an acoustic shadow for his ignorance of Rosecrans' attack, Ord, who faced the bulk of Price's army, failed to advance on the 19th, leaving Rosecrans to fight alone.
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