Map Preview: Antietam [Millers Cornfield]

[Hinkel]

As some of you might know, our next episode will feature the "Battle of Antietam" on September 17th, 1862.
Antietam will feature new maps, new units, new weapons, new armies and much more!

One of the best mappers, like "Karantukki", are working on different battlegrounds of that bloodiest day in the american history!
Today, I would like to present some screenshots of his latest work, which will feature the "Millers Cornfield".

The Antietam battlefield




Millers Farm




The Cornfield 1

"As we appeared at the edge of the corn, a long line of men in butternut and gray rose up from the ground. Simultaneously, the hostile battle lines opened a tremendous fire upon each other. Men, I cannot say fell; they were knocked out of the ranks by the dozens. But we jumped over the fence, and pushed on, loading, firing, and shouting as we advanced." Major Rufus R. Dawes, 6th Wisconsin




The Cornfield 2

General Hooker's men would march confidently through these fields towards the Dunker Church through tall fields of ripe corn. As they emerged from the southern end of Farmer Miller's fields, the sturdy veterans of CSA General Stonewall Jackson waited for them with rifles at the ready.




The West Woods

As the morning phase of the battle progressed and the attacks of Union Generals Hooker then Mansfield died away, Union Major General Edwin V. Sumner led his men across the battlefield towards the Confederates in the west woods. Unaware of the approaching southern reinforcements, upon entering the woods, his men would be caught in a crossfire, suffering mightily at the hands of stalwart troops led by Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.




The North Woods area

[KArantukki]

Yeah, my map

[MackCW]

 

Wow nice work...gonna be fun lbs to be had dere.

[Gokiller]

Looking good.