TC2M Chantilly Map Comparison
I want to lead off this comparison by showing a map of the battlefield and discussing the situation. Chantilly (or Ox Hill) was fought shortly after Second Manassas, on September 1, 1862. Stonewall Jackson had been sent on another of his flanking marches to try to get between Gen. John Pope's combined northern armies and the Washington, D.C. Two Union divisions, under Isaac Stevens and Phil Kearny, attacked Jackson's Corps at Chantilly to try to halt this flanking movement. The views you will see in the link below are taken from the center of the Confederate Position south of the Little River Turnpike. Centreville, Virginia, where Pope had retreated after Second Manassas, is several miles to the SSW. Washington, D.C., to which most of the Federal Army was retreating, was located nearly due east from this area. Refer to the compass in the upper right hand corner of the screen shots and the map directly below this paragraph to orient yourself to the situation. The pictures below were taken slightly to the left of the "You Are Here" marker on the map below, facing SSW. Notice Stevens' Division on the map and in the game screen shots below.
For those of you who have David Welker's Ox Hill book, turn to the 1907 picture located after page 193 in the text. It is in the middle of several pages of pictures. In both of these shots, Isaac Stevens' IX Corps Division is forming in assault column for the attack (as they did historically). This first screen shot features the ground with trees turned on. The Reid House is masked by the trees in the orchard to the north of the house (and at the southern end of the cornfield in this shot).
This second screen shot was taken from pretty much the exact same angle but with the trees turned off. Here you can plainly see the Reid House in the upper right hand corner sticking up just above the cornfield.
Here is the shot from 1907 in Welker's book:
Lastly, I wanted to leave those interested in this small battle with several sources for further reading.
Taylor, Paul, He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly), September 1, 1862
Welker, David A., Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly