Marks' Mills AR015

supportedunresolved Britton says Steele's cavalry scouts reported no Confederate force north of the Washita before the train left, and that Price cannonaded the Camden outposts to draw attention from Fagan's movement; Price calls it a feint made for that purpose, and says the captured mail held Steele's reports and returns with information of much value.

Attributed knowledge from a history and an interested report.

disputedunresolved Britton says a 150-wagon train from Pine Bluff allowed half rations for ten days, and was sent back unloaded for more supplies; the train lost was 211 wagons with four guns. NPS says 240 wagons, and Price a train of several hundred wagons going to Pine Bluff for supplies.

Wagon counts differ; no quartermaster return.

supportedunresolved Britton says Kirby Smith sent Fagan to cross the Washita and destroy Steele's supplies and cut his communications; Price says Fagan was ordered to attack and cut off every train he found north of the river. NPS says the loss made Steele give up the junction with Banks.

Stated aims from a history and an interested report; NPS's statement is campaign consequence.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Confederate victory and the live result Confederate Victory. Price calls the victory complete, with all the wagons taken; Britton says the escort was overwhelmed after nearly five hours and nearly all the infantry killed, wounded or captured; NPS says the Confederates captured most of the men and all the wagons.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Steele's evacuation of Camden is campaign context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 1,793 total (US 1,500; CS 293), and the live field agrees. Price claims six guns, four colors and 1,100 prisoners taken and near 500 Union killed. Britton reports Fagan's killed and severely wounded as not over 150, Cabell's brigade alone as over 200 wounded, and relays Colonel Drake's report that his chief surgeon counted about 250 of his men killed and wounded, and that an estimated 800 to 900 dead and wounded lay on the field, about one half of them Confederates and a large proportion of the rest Arkansas refugees and Black civilians travelling with the train, whom Drake reported murdered.

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. Civilian dead are not military casualties and are not merged with them.

supportedunresolved Britton and Price say Drake commanded the escort and Fagan the attackers; Britton says Drake was severely wounded, Price mortally. The frozen commanders are Brigadier General James B. Fagan and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Drake, as on the live page.

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

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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 Infantry brigade [US] and two divisions [CS]; the live field reads zero. Britton says the escort was a brigade of infantry, four hundred First Iowa cavalry and four guns, attacked by Fagan's expedition of four thousand picked cavalry and several batteries, and outnumbered four to one. Price says the train was guarded by a brigade, 500 cavalry and six guns, and that Fagan's division of Cabell's, Dockery's and Crawford's brigades had Shelby's brigade attached.

Interested and retrospective figures that differ on the cavalry and guns; no return. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Britton places the fight at Marks' Mill near the Moro Swamp, with the troops in front separated from those in the rear by the length of the train, probably nearly two miles, and says Black civilians escaped into the swamps.

Ground described by one history; no map verification.