[Consim-l] Re: Stonewall at Cedar Mountain

[Markus Stumptner]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, bieksza at erols.com wrote:
> My solitaire notebooks are only meant to jog my own memory, so
> the descriptions are not as clear as they could be.  To clarify the
> situation, the division in question had two brigades, one in a good
> defensive position in the front lines and the other well to the rear.  In
> order to bring up the rear brigade an "advance" order would be
> necessary, but because the order applied to the entire division the
> front brigade would have to advance at least one hex forward --
> hence "sticking its neck out."

Ah, now I see! Good point.


> But an enemy cavalry unit occupied that hex.  So once Ewell was in
> the vicinity he had to switch to an "attack" order.  Had his chit been
> pulled first there would have been no problem.  Instead the cavalry
> chit was pulled, and rather than get clobbered it skedaddled to the
> other side of Cedar Mountain.
>
> Thus when Ewell's chit was pulled, the division had an "attack" order
> but it was physically unable to reach any enemy units.  Thus the
> "attack" would have converted to an "advance," requiring the
> division to head northward.

So if the order definition were phrased in terms of close enemy units 
instead of the leader, presumably the direction would not have been 
changed?  This is a good effect to ponder, as I may be in a situation 
where I may have something to do with a descendant of that system in the 
future.

Markus

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