The March To The Sea: An American Civil War Matrix Game – Personal Briefings

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
Your personal goals are:

• Avoid all frontal assaults
• Burn Georgia from Atlanta to the sea
• Make comments about how war is hell!

General John Schofield
Your personal goals are:

• Make at least one frontal assault
• Keep your supply lines open
• Support General Sherman wherever possible

General George Thomas
Your personal goals are:

• Never retreat in the face of the enemy
• Repeatedly refer to your exploits at the Battle of Chickamauga last year, where you claim to have saved the day for the Union
• Refer to General Sherman as ‘Uncle Billy’

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Confederacy General Joseph E. Johnston
Your personal goals are:

• Fight a delaying action
• Force the Yankees to make frontal assault on your position
• Blame somebody else if the Yankees take Atlanta

General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Your personal goals are:

• Raid into Nashville (Tennessee) at least twice
• Maintain your army as a fighting force
• Make comments about the poor quality of Yankee cavalry

General John Hunt Morgan
Your personal goals are:

• Raid into Chattanooga at least once
• Brag about your exploits in raiding Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio earlier in the war
• Make comments about the poor quality of Yankee cavalry