{"title":"Black Powder Epic Battles American Civil War Wave Three","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"epic-battles-american-civil-war-confederate-command","title":"Epic Battles: American Civil War Confederate Command","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert E. Lee:\u003c\/strong\u003e The son of ‘Light Horse Harry’ Lee, an officer who served in a previous rebellion, Robert Edward Lee graduated top in his class at West Point at the start of his military career. He was an accomplished officer and had served across the country and provided staunch service during the Mexican War. When Virginia seceded Lee felt bound to his native state and resigned his commission in the Regular Army, offering his services to Virginia and the fledgling Confederacy. Famously, Lee was offered command of the Union forces about to head south, but felt honour bound and declined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the next four years he proved to be one of the greatest battlefield commanders and tacticians of his age. He invaded the North late in ’62 and held McClellan again at Sharpsburg (Antietam). On the strategic defensive in early ’63 he defeated The Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville in May where Jackson fell. On the offensive in June he led his army into Pennsylvania and the climactic battle of Gettysburg where he was checked by Meade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the defensive, Lee was initially able to match and hold Grant as he bore down on the Confederacy in ’64 and ’65, but eventually no amount of tactical genius could offset the numerical and technical superiority of the Union. With his lines around Petersburg breeched Lee abandoned the city and Richmond and struck out west trying to avoid the circling Union armies. Eventually Lee was compelled to surrender himself and his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that this figure has a brand-new pose and differs from the ACW pre-order exclusive figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jackson is one of most able Confederate commanders and is only eclipsed, perhaps, by Lee. Thomas Jonathan \"Stonewall\" Jackson was an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute when war broke out and offered his services to his native state, Virginia. At First Manassas he won immortality when his brigade held its ground in the face of a heavy Union assault. A fellow officer, noting Jackson’s brigade and trying to rally his own men, called out: “Look, there stands Jackson – like a stone wall!” The name stuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJackson was placed in command of the Confederate forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley and promptly lead his Union opponents a merry chase. By a series of forced marches with his infantry, or “foot cavalry” as they became known due to their speed, he was able to surprise and defeat all the Union forces sent against him in isolation. His antics were largely aided by the fact that he had a much better map of the Valley than his opponents – reputedly 10 ft long! At Antietam his corps held all of McClellan’s uncoordinated assaults despite heavy losses and at Fredericksburg his troops performed the same duty. In May of 1863 he and Lee masterminded a flank assault that broke Hooker’s will and drove the Army of the Potomac north. It was at the moment of his greatest success that he was accidentally shot by his own men on the evening of the 2nd May while reconnoitering the Union lines ready for a renewal of the action. Carried from the field, his left arm was amputated but complications ensued and he died on the 10th May 1863.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included is a HQ standard Bearer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pack contains 3 mounted command figures in metal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40422797279403,"sku":"315114015","price":11.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/0801\/2971\/products\/315114016_BPEpicBattlesConfederateCommanders01.jpg?v=1627071109"},{"product_id":"epic-battles-american-civil-war-union-command","title":"Epic Battles: American Civil War Union Command","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUlysses S. Grant:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ulysses Simpson Grant, or more accurately Hiram Ulysses Grant (he was registered incorrectly at West Point) was a total failure. He failed in several business ventures; when president his administration was rocked by scandals; he lost most of his wealth after the war in further failed ventures and only gained back some funds by publishing his memoirs. Grant – the failure. However, there was one enterprise at which Grant excelled – War!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrant had served in the Mexican War but then left the army to pursue a career in business. When war came in 1861 he promptly rejoined offering his services to the cause of Union. Initially serving as a brigade commander in 1862 he was promoted to major general and secured Kentucky and most of Tennessee for the Union. At Shiloh in 1862 he was surprised by Johnston’s Confederates but, completely unfazed by the initial setbacks, launched a counter-attack and won the battle. In July 1863 Grant outmanoeuvred and defeated the Confederate forces defending Vicksburg and captured the city in July, in effect splitting the Confederacy, the navy already having secured passage of the Mississippi river. Grant was not present at Chickamauga, but was in command at the victory of Chattanooga\/Missionary Ridge. In light of his successes Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General and commander of all of the Union armies. Grant then came East to oversee the campaign against Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Although Meade remained in command of the Army of the Potomac Grant went along with it, effectively using Meade’s own headquarters and staff as a post office for issuing his own orders. The battles against Lee in 1864 have gone down in history as some of the most savage of the war. Grant was often held by Lee but, again unfazed, he refused to acknowledge defeat and simply shifted his entire army “to the left”, forcing Lee to follow him to the next bloody encounter. Eventually Grant trapped Lee in a siege at Petersburg, a campaign of attrition then ensued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhilst sat outside Petersburg Grant oversaw other operations against the Confederacy, most notably those conducted by Sherman and Sheridan. In April ’65 Grant finally broke through Lee’s defences, captured Petersburg and then Richmond – the long sought after prize of the past four years. 68 June 26th 1862 – The Battle of Mechanicsville, Virginia Lee was finally cornered at Appomattox and compelled to surrender what remained of his army to a generous Grant. Denounced by many as a “butcher” for his losses during the battles against Lee Grant is still undoubtedly one of the great commanders of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Meade:\u003c\/strong\u003e George Gordon Meade is best known for his defeat of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. With a military background honed by experience in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, Meade served as a Union General in the American Civil War. From initially commanding a brigade in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles, to meeting great success as a division commander, particularly at the Battle of Fredericksburg, he eventually rose to command the Army of the Potomac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis command came only three days before the crucial Battle of Gettysburg, and he only arrived in the field after the first day of action on July 1. The Army of the Potomac used favourable ground and positioning to repel a series of large-scale assaults over the next two days. Robert E. Lee's Army of North Virginia, unable to overcome these defences was forced to retreat, ending his hope of invading the North. Though hailed as a great victory, it was undermined by the perceived ineffectiveness of Meade's pursuit of the retreat, which prevented Lee's total destruction. In the latter years of the war his influence was overshadowed by that of general-in-chief, Ulysses S. 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Some batteries were also designated as light, or horse, artillery. These provided the faster gun teams but their actual guns were of the same types as their “foot” colleagues. Their speed was achieved by having better horses in the limber teams if at all possible, but most obviously, by mounting the gun crews on horses. Such batteries were thus able to keep pace with the cavalry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese limbers are designed to supplement the plastic cannons found in the kits for both union and confederate infantry brigades, as well as the hefty number found in the starter box. 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