Blue and Gray (board game)

Blue and Gray is a strategy board game for two players invented by Henry Busch and Arthur Jaeger in 1903.

The name Blue and Gray "refers to the uniforms of the South and the North in the Civil War and in the original game the playing pieces of the contestants were of those colors.

[a] Blue and Gray was featured in the book A Gamut of Games (1969) by Sid Sackson.

It was also featured in The Book of Classic Board Games (1991) by Klutz Press under the name Cats and Dogs.

The game is played on a 9×9 gridded board with 80 intersection points.

Blue and Gray gameboard and starting setup. In the illustration, captains are dark-colored; grid lines are white, blue, and gray.