Fort McAllister I GA002

supportedunresolved Drayton learned the fort's earlier armament from a pilot who had deserted from it two months before. McCrady's report rests on McAlpin's notes and the officers' statements, and identifies the vessel under fire as the Montauk; a compiler's footnote in the printed report says the Montauk was not in action.

Attributed knowledge on both sides; the misidentification is preserved as printed. No original reconnaissance, order or message chain was inspected to establish contemporary knowledge. Surprise in a summary does not independently establish what each commander knew.

supportedunresolved Drayton withdrew when his shell with fuzes long enough to reach were expended and his crew had worked eight hours without a break to eat; he ran out of 7- and 10-second fuzes. McCrady says the damage was repaired and the VIII-inch columbiad remounted by morning, and a fresh supply of ammunition arrived from Savannah in the night.

Statements in the two reports; no ordnance returns inspected.

supportedunresolved NPS says Du Pont ordered the attack to test the ironclads' guns and appliances and give gunnery practice. Drayton calls the attack, entrusted to his direction, unsuccessful, and concludes that heavy earthworks must be reduced by continuous fire by day and night, as on shore.

Du Pont's own transmittal was read but not selected; the aim is cited from NPS and Drayton.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Drayton says the attack was unsuccessful and that no injury was done that a good night's work would not repair; McCrady reports no material damage to the earthwork and the garrison as ready to fight again the next morning. McCrady's report text reads 'Tuesday, March 8' in OCR, but his tables in the same section and Drayton's ordnance report date the action March 3, matching the frozen date.

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 Unknown; the live field reads 1 total (US 0; CS 1). McCrady reports two men slightly wounded, one by a shell fragment and one by a sod peg, and one gun carriage destroyed. McCrady also reports that riflemen in the marsh shot an officer stepping out of monitor No. 1's turret; Drayton's selected reports list damage to the Passaic but no casualties.

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. Frozen 'Unknown', the live CS 1 and McCrady's two slightly wounded are preserved, as is McCrady's claim of a Union officer shot against the live US 0.

supportedunresolved Drayton signed as senior officer present and directed the attack. McCrady names Captain [G. W.] Anderson as reporting on the battery's fire and Captain Martin on the mortar; McAlpin directed repairs. The frozen commanders are Captain P. Drayton (US navy) and Captain George A. Anderson (CS); the live page gives Major George Anderson.

Command roles from the two reports; no listed commander receives automatic sole credit. The frozen middle initial (A.) and the compiler's bracketed initials (G. W.) differ; the live 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). No figure in this pass is adopted as a simultaneous opening force.

disputedunresolved The frozen force text names the Union navy flotilla and the fort garrison; the live field reads zero. Drayton says his vessel lay under fire with Ammen and Downes in support, three mortar schooners firing from about 4,000 yards and three gunboats anchored near them; he judged the fort to contain seven guns and a mortar. NPS calls the fort 'then a small three-gun earthwork battery'. McCrady describes three monitors in action, a fourth that took no part, one river and one ocean steamer and three mortar vessels, and names the fort's VIII-inch, X-inch and 42-pounder guns, a rifled 32-pounder, 32-pounders and a X-inch mortar; neither gives a garrison or crew strength.

Vessel and gun counts only, and the gun counts differ; no personnel figure. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

disputedunresolved Drayton says the fort stood at least 20 feet above the river with high traverses between the guns, that shallow water, a narrow channel and piles kept him about 1,200 yards off (the pilot called it a thousand), and that the natural obstacles made another attack as unlikely to succeed. McCrady puts the three ironclads at 1,400 to 1,900 yards, in the channel about 200 yards from the marsh opposite.

Distances are the two sides' estimates and differ; no map verification. The earthwork predates the attack.