The game allows the player to control either the Confederate or Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.

"Case's Ladder" Online play is now, for the most part, impossible due to the shutdown of GameSpy's servers.

was a nominee for "PC Strategy Game of the Year",[12] which was ultimately awarded to StarCraft and Age of Empires (tie).

They cited its simple, intuitive control interface as key to making it stand out from the often overly complex games in its genre, stating that it allows players to more easily focus on the finer points of strategy and planning.

[7] J.C. Herz, writing for The New York Times, pondered the assumptions underlying the game's simulation of the historical battle.

He felt that the game could be a useful tool to teach history but worried that the interactive medium could obscure historical facts behind its systems.

This aspect of tweaking the game proved vital to Civil War aficionados looking for historically accurate models.