It is now Turn 17 - 1:20pm on 12th September. Multiple engagements are developing across a broad front. Firstly - D.H. Hill has been attempting to force a crossing of the Potomac at Williamsport but the river and general terrain here are making it easy for large numbers of Yankee Cavalry and horse guns to delay us substantially. Artillery has been brought up, but Hill has diverted part of his column back down the western side of the Potomac towards Lee and Jackson's crossing point at Falling Waters a few miles south.
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| Williamsport : strategic situation |
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| Williamsport : tactical situation |
At Downsville, Jackson pushes the brigades of Ewell's Division forward as quickly as he can to envelop the Federal troopers and secure the town. Union cavalry are being used very effectively to delay us and buy time for McClellan to march all his corps to the scene of the action.
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| Downsville : strategic situation |
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| Downsville : tactical situation |
But the main event is shaping up to be at Jones Crossroads, some five miles north of Sharpsburg on the Hagerstown/Sharpsburg Pike. Here the two armies are colliding with enough friction to bring on an engagement that could draw in a lot of troops on both sides. Longstreet is present on the field and has deployed the divisions of Hood and McLaws against an as-yet unidentified Union corps. A large scale artillery exchange has begun.
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| Jones Crossroads : strategic situation |
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| Jones Crossroads : tactical situation |
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