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Battle of Peachtree Creek

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.
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Confederacy (Cs Army of Tennessee, 18,832 men under Hood) attacked USA (US Army of the Cumberland, 20,139 men under Thomas) in Georgia. The CAA Database of Battles records 3 hours of fighting on a front of 1.6 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense and prepared defense, and that USA held. Losses: Confederacy 2,746 (15%), USA 1,600 (8%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Confederacy

Hood

UnitArmMen
Confederacy left wingInfantry4,520
Confederacy centreInfantry6,026
Confederacy right wingInfantry4,520
Confederacy reserveInfantry3,766
HoodCommander—
In this plan18,832

USA

Thomas

UnitArmMen
USA left wingInfantry4,833
USA centreInfantry6,444
USA right wingInfantry4,833
USA reserveInfantry4,028
ThomasCommander—
In this plan20,138

What the sources report

ConfederacyUSA
Strength, this plan18,83220,139
Losses, this plan2,7461,600

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 207, “Peachtree Creek”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
3 hours
Winner
the defender
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense, Prepared defense
Front width
1.6 km (attacker), 1.6 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Confederacyattacker18,8322,746——Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew
USAdefender20,1391,600——Defensive plan

Attacker’s advantages initiative +1 · surprise +2

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.