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43 8/11/2026 8:23:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message CSA loses 3SP, JJohnston placed on TRT, turn 3
Union loses 1SP(n3) and retreats to Harpers Ferry VA
42 8/10/2026 8:15:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Message Scratch all that, forgot no general casualties on 3-1 or more odds. To US for further moves
41 8/10/2026 8:13:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 2

2
5


Message from Confederate:
General casualty roll due to modified 10+
First roll will be USA, general death on 1-3
Second will be CSA, general death on 1
40 8/10/2026 8:09:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Message USA get a modified 11, CSA get modified 5. 1 loss on each side
39 8/10/2026 8:08:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Die roll request Request: 6-sided die x 2

6
3


Message from Confederate:
Union Roll (+5) will be first, CSA second (+2)
38 8/9/2026 5:02:00 PM Summer 1861 Union Message Union card 5 (cont.)

Buell w/4SP attack Winchester VA (6MP)

4SP vs 1SP
Medium Battle

CSA +2DRM for general
Union +5DRM(+1 for general, +4 for odds)

Will continue Union movement after battle

Back to CSA to apply any combat card and resolve battle
37 8/9/2026 4:58:00 PM Summer 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #26: 3 / Cotton is King
If played by Union, reduce Confederate SW by 2; if played by Confederate, Confederate immediately receives two SPs in any Blockade Runner port, no more than one SP per port, but more than 1SP per Blockade zone is permitted. If insufficient ports are available, the excess SPs are lost. Remove from deck if event is played.

Message from Union:
Union card 5

Activate Buell w/1SP
Frederick MD (1MP)
DC (2MP) p/u 4SP from AofP(n5), Buell(n5) (2MP)
Frederick MD drop 2SP, Frederick MD(n5), Buell(n3) (3MP)
Harpers Ferry VA(n5)
36 8/9/2026 12:28:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Event #33: 1 / Orphan Brigade
Confederate immediately receives one SP in any friendly or neutral space (no LOC is required) in Kentucky that is free of Union SPs.

Message from Confederate:
SP in Bowling Green KY
35 8/6/2026 10:39:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #76: 2 / Great Sioux Uprising
Remove one Union commanding general at no SW penalty. Penalties for promoting a general with a lower political value still apply. OR remove ANY Union non-commanding general (even second in commands) from the game. Remove from deck if event is played.

Message from Union:
Union card 4

Place Union PC in Westin WV and Franklin WV
34 8/4/2026 7:44:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Event #36: 1 / Elite Units
Place an Elite unit marker in any space with an Army. CSA: Stonewall Bde or Hood’s Tigers. USA: Iron Bde or Wilder’s Bde. Cannot be played if all elite unit markers are in play for that side.

Message from Confederate:
Place Stonewall Brigade with the Army of Northern Virginia
33 8/4/2026 8:03:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #92: 2 / Baltimore Revolts
Confederate may place a friendly PC marker in Baltimore, MD, if the space is vacant.

Message from Union:
Union card 3

Place Union PC in Parkersburg WV and Grafton WV
32 8/2/2026 12:23:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #103: 3 / Seven Days/Chattanooga
Either player may move 2 SPs using Strategic Movement from the same space using rail connections only (10 space maximum) to the same space with a General who is then activated and must attempt to enter a space with at least one or more enemy SPs or fort. OR play this card as an automatic 2 space interception. Intervening space must be friendly controlled and free of enemy SPs. The intervening space may be the one just exited by the moving enemy force. No Generals or SPs may be picked up or dropped off during the intercept.

Message from Confederate:
CSA Fort in Nashville, TN
31 8/2/2026 8:26:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #15: 1 / Mosby's Raiders
Confederate can remove two Union PC Markers in Virginia within 2 spaces of Winchester, VA. The spaces may contain Union generals, SPs or forts.

Message from Union:
Union card 2

Create Union fort in Pittsburgh PA
30 8/1/2026 12:06:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #95: 2 / Strategy Board
Union player may make a naval move with up to three SPs plus one general.

Message from Confederate:
Create Army of Northern Virginia in Manassas under Smith.

* Army of Northern Virginia formed at Manassas with Smith in command, strength 6.
* CSA Strategic Will momentum flipped to DOWN (-3 momentum penalty).
* CSA Strategic Will set to 105 (-2 penalty, -3 momentum penalty).
29 7/30/2026 9:54:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #91: 2 / Letters of Marque
Increase Confederate SW by 1. Remove from deck if event is played.

Message from Union:
Union card 1

Create Union AofTN in Louisville TN w/6SP
Banks commander
Union SW 100- to 98 -2 (senior leader not placed in command of army)
28 7/28/2026 9:39:00 PM Summer 1861 Confederate Message No campaign play by CSA to start, over to the Union
27 7/28/2026 8:04:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message Is the CSA campaigning?
26 7/28/2026 8:03:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Draw Strategy cards 5 cards drawn.

25 7/27/2026 11:09:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Draw Strategy cards 5 cards drawn.

24 7/27/2026 11:08:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Message Stuart and Smith to Manassas
Bragg to Nashville
23 7/27/2026 11:07:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Die roll request Request: 999-sided die x 3

23
987
997


Message from Confederate:
1st die - Manassas VA
2nd die - Manassas VA
3rd die - Nashville, TN

Highest number is Bragg
2nd highest is Smith
3rd is Stuart
22 7/26/2026 8:20:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message Burnside - Pittsburgh PA
Banks - Louisville KY
Buell - Harper's Ferry VA
Halleck - Cairo IL
Pope - AofP
Rosecrans - Frederick MD
McCellan - AofP

21 7/26/2026 8:17:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Die roll request Request: 999-sided die x 7

397
194
396
450
992
189
319


Message from Union:
Union General Placement

1st die - Harper's Ferrary VA
2nd die - Frederick MD
3rd die - Cairo, IL
4th die - Louisville KY
5th die - Pittsburgh PA
6th die - AofP
7th die - AofP

Highest - Burnside
2nd - Banks
3rd - Buell
4th - Halleck
5th - Pope
6th - Rosecrans
7th - McClellan
20 7/24/2026 10:51:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Message * 1 Confederate SP moved Raleigh to Manassas.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Florence to Manassas.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Augusta to Manassas.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Madison to Nashville, TN.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Selma to Nashville.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Jackson, MS to Dover, TN.
* 1 Confederate SP moved Savannah to Strasburg.

19 7/24/2026 7:33:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message Union SM

7SP Indianapolis IN(n0) to Louisville KY(n7)
1SP DC(n7) to Harper's Ferry VA(n3)
2SP DC(n5) to Frederick MD(n3)
1SP Columbus OH(n0) to Pittsburgh PA(n3)
1SP Springfield IL(n0) to Cairo IL(n2)
3SP St Louis MO(n3) to Cairo IL(n5)
5SP DC(0) to AofP(n9)
18 7/23/2026 10:48:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Message Right, sorry.
1 SP each in:
Morehead City NC
Savannah GA
Pensacola FL
Sabine City TX
17 7/23/2026 8:59:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message CSA T2 reinforcements

Await the blockade runners reinforcements, rule 10.54,
16 7/22/2026 11:20:00 AM Summer 1861 Confederate Message * 1 Confederate SP placed at Forts St. Philip/Jackson LA.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Jackson, MS.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Selma AL.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Augusta GA.
* Confederate SP set to strength 3 at Manassas VA.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Raleigh NC.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Florence SC.
* Confederate SP set to strength 2 at Nashville TN.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Rolla MO.
* 1 Confederate SP placed at Madison AR.

15 7/20/2026 8:23:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message T2 Union reinforcement corrections

Make that 6SP in St Louis MO
14 7/20/2026 8:21:00 AM Summer 1861 Union Message T2 Union reinforcements

8SP to DC(n8)
6SP to Indianapolis IN(n7)
4SP to St Louis MO(n5)
13 7/20/2026 8:19:00 AM Spring 1861 Union End Turn
12 7/20/2026 8:16:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Message T1 EOT

PC
CSA control KY, place CSA PC in Lexington MO, Jefferson City MO
CSA SW to 112+ (MO +10, FoW +2)

Attrition
Union AofP 5SP to 4SP

Union start of T2 to follow
11 7/19/2026 2:43:00 PM Spring 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #94: 2 / Strategy Board
Union player may make a naval move with up to three SPs plus one general.

Message from Confederate:
Place CSA PC in Rolla and Ironton, MO
10 7/17/2026 7:30:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #41: 2 / Gov. Isham Harris, Tennessee Confederate
Confederate immediately places two SPs in any friendly controlled space in Tennessee with a LOC (both SPs are placed in the same space). SPs may not be placed in Pro-Union spaces or one occupied by Union SPs or a fort.

Message from Union:
Union card 4

Place Union PC in Louisville KY and Paducah KY
9 7/16/2026 11:26:00 AM Spring 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #6: 1 / Ambush
Target any enemy cavalry general not located with an army and make a casualty die roll. On a die roll of 1-3 the cavalry general is killed, on a die roll of 4-6 there is no effect.

Message from Confederate:
Place Confederate PC in St. Joseph, MO
8 7/16/2026 9:05:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #4: 1 / Costly Mistake
Pick an enemy army with two or more subordinate generals (includes Cavalry Generals) and randomly determine a target general. On a die roll of 1-3 the chosen general is killed and removed from play. On a die roll of 4-6 the general is wounded and removed from play, but re-enters during the reinforcement phase of the next game turn.

Message from Union:
Union card 3

Place Union PC in Wheeling WV
7 7/14/2026 11:10:00 AM Spring 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #25: 1 / Confederate Railroad Degradation
The Union player may randomly remove one strategy card from the Confederate hand, which is discarded.

Message from Confederate:
Place Confederate PC in Kansas City, Missouri
6 7/14/2026 7:50:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #54: 1 / CSS Virginia
Confederate may place one Ironclad in a controlled port or coastal fort space.

Message from Union:
Union card 2

Place Union fort in Harper's Ferry VA
5 7/13/2026 2:21:00 PM Spring 1861 Confederate Play Strategy card as Operations #108: 2 / Richmond Bread Riots
Confederate player loses 2 SW. Remove from deck if event is played.

Message from Confederate:
Confederates put PC in Springfield and Greenville, Missouri
4 7/13/2026 10:47:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Play Strategy card as Operations #79: 1 / Indian Allies
Confederate immediately receives one SP in any friendly space in Arkansas (no LOC required) that is free of Union SPs.

Message from Union:
Union card 1

Place Union fort in Frederick MD
3 7/13/2026 10:42:00 AM Spring 1861 Confederate Message No campaign play to start for CSA, Union will go first
2 7/13/2026 9:57:00 AM Spring 1861 Confederate Draw Strategy cards 4 cards drawn.

1 7/13/2026 9:12:00 AM Spring 1861 Union Draw Strategy cards 4 cards drawn.

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