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Battle of Globe Tavern

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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.
Rolling, Mixed groundCentreLeft wingRight wingCentreReserveLeft wingRight wingReserveGuns0500 m1 kmN

USA (US V Corps(+), 20,289 men under Warren) attacked Confederacy (Cs III Corps (+), 14,787 men under Hill) in Virginia. The CAA Database of Battles records 72 hours of fighting on a front of 2.4 km, a frontal attack, single envelopment against hasty defense, and that USA won. Losses: USA 4,455 (22%), Confederacy 1,619 (11%).

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

USA

Warren

UnitArmMen
USA left wingInfantry4,869
USA centreInfantry6,492
USA right wingInfantry4,869
USA reserveInfantry4,058
WarrenCommander—
In this plan20,288

Confederacy

Hill

UnitArmMen
Confederacy left wingInfantry3,441
Confederacy centreInfantry4,588
Confederacy right wingInfantry3,441
Confederacy reserveInfantry2,867
Confederacy artillery (30 guns)Artillery450
HillCommander—
In this plan14,787

What the sources report

USAConfederacy
Strength, this plan20,28914,787
Losses, this plan4,4551,619

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 210, “Globe Tavern”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
72 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Wet, Heavy precipitation, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense
Front width
2.4 km (attacker), 2.4 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
USAattacker20,2894,455——Frontal attack; Single envelopment; Penetration; Stalemate
Confederacydefender14,7871,619—30Defensive plan; Stalemate

Attacker’s advantages initiative +1

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, and which flank the envelopment fell on is a guess. 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.