House Divided — A Civil War Strategy Game

About the Game

House Divided is a Civil War grand-strategy game being built in Unity by Frank LeSage Jr. Every campaign begins in 1861. You create your own general (name, home state, background, branch of service and two traits), then you guide your side through the war.

The Union

Capital: Washington. Twenty-three states, most of the nation's factories and railroads, and a navy to blockade the coast.

The Confederacy

Capital: Richmond. Eleven states fighting on home ground, with many of the army's finest officers.

Each turn moves through laws, building, purchasing and battle phases. The war economy uses real 1861 dollars, and inflation, loans and bonds work as they did then. Historical laws go to a vote in Congress, from the Morrill Tariff and the Legal Tender Act to the Confederate Tax-in-Kind. Your diplomats work in London, Paris, Mexico and other capitals. In battle you choose an objective, and holding it decides who wins.

The Generals

59 historical commanders appear in the game. Every likeness comes from a real public-domain period photograph or engraving. No portrait is AI-generated.

**Ulysses S. Grant**Lieutenant General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**William Tecumseh Sherman**Major General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**George B. McClellan**Major General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**George Meade**Major General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Philip Sheridan**Major General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**George Henry Thomas**Major General, UnionPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Robert E. Lee**General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Stonewall Jackson**Lieutenant General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**James Longstreet**Lieutenant General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**J. E. B. Stuart**Major General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Joseph E. Johnston**General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Nathan Bedford Forrest**Lieutenant General, ConfederatePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

The Map & Theaters

The campaign is played on a map of the United States as it stood in 1861, with its states and territories, from the Eastern Theater in Virginia to the Western rivers and the Trans-Mississippi. Battles are fought on hex maps of 31 historical fields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.

Battlefields

Chancellorsville battle map — Chancellorsville

From the Game

Screens and art from work in progress. The game will change before release.