Working on Patterson Creek

Short Gap was an easy locality map to make and has been posted already. Patterson Creek is in progress and should be posted tonight. It still needs to be labeled and currently looks like this:

The river is the North Branch of the Potomac. It will appear slightly smaller in the modded map, because of scaling. This map is not to accurate scale because I wanted to include both Frankfort Ford (on the right side of the map) and Patterson Creek Depot (on the left side) on the same TC2M Modded Map. The two north-south roads running approximately parallel to each other both leave from the Frankfort Map, but are separated by Patterson Creek Ridge, just east of Patterson Creek (the largest creek running north-south and into the North Branch. The steepness of the ridge can be seen by the switch back on the road that runs east-west below the river.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is also present, running along the south bank of the river. A service path will run next to the rails, allowing infantry movement by foot from Patterson Creek Depot to Green Spring Depot (the next map to the east on the campaign map).

If Confederates are able to gain uncontested control of this map during the simulation, it would cut the railroad east of Cumberland, eliminating a Federal rapid movement advantage from Cumberland to Green Spring Depot. (A wise Federal player will not allow Patterson Creek to fall into Confederate hands.)