Scourge of War - Brandy Station

Brandy Station DLC contains:10 Single player scenarios 5 Multiplayer scenariosBrandy Station's remastered mapTwo Brandy Station OOBs (Historical and Full)The Battle of Brandy Station was the largest cavalry battle ever fought in North America, with more than 17,000 cavalrymen engaged-9,500 Confederate cavalry under Major General J. E. B. Stuart against 8,000 Union cavalry supported by 3,000 infantry under Major General Alfred Pleasonton. In a war where cavalry usually fought dismounted at long range, the Battle of Brandy Station was an unusually savage affair, with swirling melees between troopers fighting horse-to-horse with sabers and pistols.

Fought on June 9, 1863, it marked the opening of the decisive Gettysburg Campaign. After the Battle of Chancellorsville previous month near Fredericksburg, Virginia, General Lee prepared to move north into the Shenandoah Valley, then into Pennsylvania. His opening move was to assemble two of his three infantry corps near Culpeper, shielded by Stuart's huge Cavalry Corps, which was camped six miles to the northeast at Brandy Station, near the Rappahannock River. Lee had planned to screen his northward move with a cavalry raid against Union supply lines across the Rappahannock, while his third infantry corps remained in Fredericksburg to mask the disappearance of the bulk of Lee's army.

Union commander Major General Joe Hooker, meanwhile, intended to blunt any such raid by striking first across the Rappahannock with his own cavalry.…