Campaign in the Shenadoah Day 4: Battle at Dinasaur Junction

Over night after the battle at the North Fork bridge, the Rebs reorgansied on the field while the 2 Union forces retreated.on their lines of supply.
At dawn the Rebs found the  Union forces had gone & immediatelty set off in pursuit down the Winchester road.  

Aroiund midday they found that the Union force had been reinforced & was deployed to meet them at the Dinosaur road junction.
 

The Rebs sent their cavalry forward to probe around the Union left flank as their infnatry depolyed.

More Union troops were revealed as the Rebs advanced & discovered troops in the woods on their elft & that the Union left was hooked back to rest on the edge of the woods.

The Union pulled back their left as the Rebs advanced.

The Rebs launched a mass cavalry change against the Union left.  On the far flank the Union troosp in the foot were giving the Rebs a hard time with accurate shooting. 

On the near flank the cavalry charge pushed the enemy back .
In the centre the Union fell back to the treeline.
On the far flank the Unionfollowed up theri hot shooting with a bayoinet charge & broke the Reb's front line.

The Rebs are keeping up thre pressure all along the line.

In the centre the Union have lost their artillery to musket & counterbattry fire, but the Rebs have had enough & stopped the attack.  In the centre & left the Reb advance has halted as fresh Union troops appear on the Newtown road.  But it is too late in the day for the fresh troops to make an impact & the fighting peters out as the sun goes down.

The Union have had 8 inf, 2 cav & 3 art broken  & 4 inf shaken & 12 other cas on .
The rebs have 4 inf broken, 3 inf & 1 cav shaken & 27 other cas. 

The Union have 24 units left on the field fit to fight, 12 of them in the late arriving  reinforecments.

The Rebs have 34 units left fit to fit to fight.  

The battle wasn't decisive, so both sides have the options of either fighting on tomorrow, or retiring overnight.