Arkansas Post AR006

supportedunresolved Greene quotes Sherman's January 5 letter that McClernand brought the first news that Grant had fallen back, and that one boat carrying dispatches, the Blue Wing, 'has been captured by the enemy'. The letter does not name the capturing force, though it links 'that enemy on our rear and flank' to the threat to communications.

Attributed knowledge in a quoted letter; the original was not inspected.

supportedunresolved Greene says the fort's armament was two 9-inch and one 8-inch columbiads and 14 field guns, and that the gunboats' fire destroyed the larger guns and bombproofs.

Armament and material effect from one retrospective history; no inspected ordnance return.

supportedunresolved NPS says the Confederates at Fort Hindman had been disrupting Union shipping and McClernand moved to capture it; Greene quotes Sherman proposing to reduce the post because it threatened the river and Union communications.

Stated objectives from a summary and a quoted letter; no inspected order.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Greene says Churchill surrendered the fort to McClernand about 4.30 p.m. on January 11, with its 17 guns and stores.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. NPS's statement that the victory did not contribute to Vicksburg's capture is campaign context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 6,547 total (US 1,047; CS 5,500); the live NPS field reads 6096 total (US 1092; CS 5004;). Greene gives Union losses of 977 (129 killed, 831 wounded, 17 missing) exclusive of 31 on the gunboats, and Confederate losses of about 200 killed and wounded with 4,791 prisoners counted.

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. Prisoners dominate the Confederate figures and are not an opening strength.

disputedunresolved Greene says a cry to raise the white flag 'by order of General Churchill' ran along the Confederate line, that Churchill and his brigade commanders all denied authorizing it and its origin cannot be traced, and that one brigade commander at first refused to surrender until Churchill arrived.

The surrender's initiation is unresolved in the source; no listed commander receives automatic sole credit.

supportedunresolved Greene says McClernand assumed formal command on January 4 and asked Porter to begin the bombardment as arranged. The frozen Union commanders are McClernand and Porter, and the frozen Confederate commander is Churchill. The live heading lists only Porter [US] and Churchill [CS], omitting McClernand, and ranks Porter Rear Admiral against the frozen Acting Rear Admiral.

Joint army-navy command; neither listed commander receives automatic sole credit. The heading rank is 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), and the live NPS zeros are not measured absence. No figure in this pass is adopted as a simultaneous opening force.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field names the Army of the Mississippi and the Fort Hindman garrison; the live field reads zero. Greene says the garrison numbered about 5,000 under Churchill, quotes Sherman's letter that seven thousand were entrenched there, and says Porter's detachment carried 66 guns and the field artillery about 45 pieces.

Garrison estimates differ between Greene and the Sherman letter he quotes; no Union infantry count is given. None is adopted as matched opening strength. Live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Greene describes Fort Hindman as a four-sided bastioned work about a hundred yards on a side on a bluff about twenty-five feet above the river, with a trench running about a mile to an impassable bayou; the assaulting infantry crossed about four hundred yards, partly open and partly broken by gullies.

Inherited works and ground from one retrospective history; no map verification or numerical terrain effect.