All Things Must End

At last, after nearly two weeks of intermittent gaming, the battle is lost and won. Unfortunately all that gunpowder and the dust kicked  up from the troop movements and all that dice rolling seems to have made it very difficult for the photographer to take a sharp photo. (That's my story anyway...) 

The day was getting on but at last the time was ripe and General Douglas ordered his army forward. A shortage of couriers (or low rolling) was still making it hard to move everything at once so the attack went in en echelon.  

After a hard fight, the Rebel artillery was silenced and the Highlanders broke through the rifle pits. 

With the line breached and evening rapidly approaching, General Lannigan ordered his army to fall back to the woods for a last stand. If they could hold off the next attack, the army might be able to escape in good order as night fell.
(in technical turns there were 3 turns to go and the Rebels needed to lose 4 or 5 more units to have their morale break otherwise they could claim a draw. The problem was that they had multiple units only 1 hit away from breaking!)

It was not to be. The Dominion cavalry, rested and reinforced, charged like fiends with the Highlanders racing to keep up and the Rebel line collapsed. Casualties had been heavy on both sides and General Douglas ordered his army to let the enemy go. 

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If anyone is curious about the rules they may be found here: Model Major General. Very few of the proposed changes stuck, and those that did are all fairly minor tweaks or changes in language, so its still basically the old Square Brigadier, just "upsized" and thus promoted in rank.