Elkin's Ferry AR012

supportedunresolved Britton says Steele could learn nothing of Thayer's division after it left Fort Smith, that the Confederate generals took his march toward Washington as his real objective before he turned to the ferry, that Marmaduke's detachments discovered the Union pickets south of the ford, and that Drake judged the enemy in strong force in his front on the night of the 3rd.

Attributed knowledge from a history; no scouting reports inspected.

supportedunresolved Britton says rain soon after leaving Little Rock made the roads heavy and exhausted the mules and artillery horses, and that Rice's brigade guarded the supply and pontoon trains; Price says the column had a train of 400 wagons including pontoons.

Campaign march conditions from a history and an interested estimate; no quartermaster return.

supportedunresolved Britton says Steele aimed to maneuver Price out of Camden without a general battle and considered holding the ford so important that Salomon sent a brigade forward; the Confederate policy was to use cavalry to impede the march until the Little Missouri. Price says Shelby was instructed to watch the enemy and, with Dockery's brigade and Wood's battalion, harass his rear.

Stated aims from a history and an interested report.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory and the live result Union Victory. Price says the Union troops were driven back some three miles, strewing the road with knapsacks; Britton says the Confederate attack was repulsed and Marmaduke retreated to a position four miles south; NPS says the Confederates tried to stop the crossing without success.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 92 total (US 38; CS 54); the live field reads 55 (US 26; CS 29). Price claims one stand of colors and small arms taken and says Rice was slightly wounded. Britton gives Rice's loss on April 2 as eight killed and thirty-two wounded, Krez's on April 4 at Okolona as three killed and three wounded, and sixteen Confederates captured on April 3; Price says Shelby, attacking the rear at the Terre Noir crossing (April 2 per Britton; Price gives no date), killed near 100 and captured 60 (read 'GO'). No inspected passage gives a total for the ferry fight.

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 April 2 and Okolona figures belong to separate actions and are not added.

supportedunresolved Britton says Steele directed Carr to seize the crossing, Drake commanded the troops at the front, and Marmaduke came onto the field to direct his troops in person; Price says Marmaduke attacked on April 4. No inspected passage places Steele on the field during the fight. The frozen commanders are Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke and Major General Frederick Steele; the live page lists Marmaduke without a rank.

Command roles from a history and an interested report; the listed commanders do not receive automatic sole credit.

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 reads 3rd Division, VII Corps and 2 cavalry brigades [US] and 3 cavalry brigades [CS]; the live field reads zero. Price says Steele's column was estimated at 10,000 men of all arms with 25 guns and 400 wagons, and that only some 1,200 Confederates were actually engaged on April 4. Britton says Steele expected about twelve thousand once Thayer joined, and Price's district held three divisions of about twelve thousand; he names Marmaduke's force as Greene's and Cabell's brigades with four guns, and the Union front line as six companies under Drake. Shelby attacked the rear guard on April 2 with fifteen hundred men.

Army-level estimates, an engaged figure from the interested side, and unit identifications that differ from the frozen three brigades; the April 2 figure belongs to a separate action. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved NPS says Union forces sought the ford because other roads were impassable. Britton says Carr found the river fordable on April 2, Marmaduke bivouacked on the edge of the Little Missouri bottom, the Union guns fell back across Howard's Creek, and Marmaduke then threw up log-and-earth defences about four miles south. A later rise of about three feet covered the lower bottoms.

Ground and water described by a summary and a history; no map or gauge record. The river's state changed during the operation.