Bits and pieces put
together by me, basically because I was researching a small wargames
campaign based on the fighting above the Volga in late 1919. (It turns
out to have been a much larger scale operation than I thought.)
Soviet Units
Bits and pieces of the
Soviet XI Army, which were the main
forces in the lower Volga.
White Forces
A couple of orders of battle for the White forces in the Volga area.
The campaign towards Astrakhan' started in mid-1919 with a drive by
General Dratsenko up the Caspian coast with the Astrakhan Forces Group,
which later merged into the Forces of the North Caucasus under General
Erdeli. Meanwhile Baron Wrangel pressed on towards Tsaritsyn, and after
he had taken that he attacked down the Volga.
Maps of the Campaign
Here are a couple of the Tsaritsyn to Astrakhan stretch of the Volga
for late 1919, the first from the "Encyclopedia of Civil War and
Intervention in the USSR" and the second from "Combats of the XI
Army from the Northern Caucasus to the Lower Volga: 1918 - 1920" by V.
T. Sukhorukov.
Maps for a Wargames Campaign
I drew up a schematic map for my proposed campaign, which is basically
correct except I "fixed" a few things to make them simpler to organise.
I then drew up maps of all the towns in the middle of the map so that
any battles could be fought over. (The ones on the edges I decided
could wait until they were needed
