Day's Gap AL001

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say the advance guard found the Federals a mile ahead cooking, that the Confederates got within four hundred yards before the Federals were aware of their proximity, and that the Confederate artillery's discharge was apparently the first intimation of it. Cist says the rear guard was overtaken as it was leaving camp, Forrest having ridden night and day.

Attributed knowledge in two interested histories; no inspected message log.

supportedunresolved Cist says Streight's animals were nearly all mules, few fit for the service, and that the plan to capture good animals was not realized; after the fight he mounted some men on captured horses. Jordan and Pryor say the Federals left wagons, broken-down animals and cooked food in their camp, and that famished Confederates lost half an hour there.

Supply and remount statements from two interested histories; no inspected return.

supportedunresolved NPS says Streight's raid aimed to cut the Western & Atlantic Railroad supplying Bragg; Cist says Rosecrans ordered it against the rebels' lines of communication. Jordan and Pryor say Forrest resolved to capture or destroy the raiders.

Stated aims from a summary and two histories; no inspected orders.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory, although the raid ultimately failed; the live result reads Union Victory. NPS says the Federals repulsed the attack and continued their march; Jordan and Pryor say that when Forrest's reinforced line was ready about 3 p.m. the Federals had been gone an hour, and that a running fight then resumed toward Blountsville.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The raid's failure and the May 3 surrender lie outside the frozen interval.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live casualty texts read 88 total (US 23; CS 65). Cist gives Forrest's loss as seventy-five killed and wounded and Streight's as twenty-one, before separately describing a renewed attack that afternoon. Jordan and Pryor say Roddy's men left forty out of three hundred and fifty killed or wounded (formation scope unstated), that the Federal loss in that phase was at least seventy-five, and that a field hospital held about seventy-five of the Federals' killed and wounded, with some thirty Confederates.

Original casualty returns were not inspected; preserve totals, categories, cutoffs and differences. No canonical reconciliation or casualty-based opening count; related actions must not be added without resolving population overlap. The two histories assign 'seventy-five' to opposite sides.

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say Forrest comprehended the situation at a glance and forthwith disposed his men, that Roddy's comparatively raw men gave way, and that Streight's charge forced Edmondson back and left the Confederate guns abandoned to the Federals, and they judge that Streight handled his men with decided nerve; Cist says Streight's charge drove the enemy at all points, capturing their two pieces of artillery. The frozen ranks are Colonel Streight and Brigadier General Forrest; the live heading ranks Streight Brigadier General and Forrest Major General.

Judgments are attributed to two interested histories; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit. The heading ranks are not adopted.

unknownunresolved

No inspected return establishes matched personnel at a common opening boundary. The frozen side-specific numerical strength bounds are blank (missing_numeric_strength). No figure in this pass is adopted as a simultaneous opening force.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field names men from four infantry regiments and the 1st Middle Tennessee Cavalry, and three Confederate regiments, without counts; the live field reads 2000 total (US 2000; CS 0;). Jordan and Pryor say that by the time Forrest reached Brown's Ferry on the evening of April 27, his scouts had ascertained that Streight's command, already at Tuscumbia, was estimated at 2,200 cavalry or mounted infantry. In their Day's Gap narrative, Roddy's men, when repulsed, left forty out of three hundred and fifty killed or wounded; the passage does not say whether the 350 is Roddy's Regiment alone or includes Julian's Battalion, which was posted and later dismounted with it. Cist says that after gathering animals en route to Fort Henry, before the raid left Eastport, only four-fifths of Streight's men were mounted, and they poorly, and that the whole force surrendered on May 3 was 1,466.

A pre-contact estimate made while Streight was at Tuscumbia, a charge denominator of unspecified formation scope, an early-April mount fraction and a May 3 surrender count differ in population and date; none is adopted as matched opening strength. The live Confederate zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say the Federals camped in Day's Gap on Sand Mountain and then formed on a commanding ridge perpendicular to the road, lying concealed behind its crest, while Roddy's men advanced over undulating, irregular ground. Cist says Streight formed on the crest of a hill on each side of the road.

Ground chosen by the defender on the day; boundaries unset and no map verification.