Resaca GA008

disputedunresolved Cox says misleading maps made reaching the railroad seem possible, and that Sweeny withdrew from Lay's Ferry on a false rumor. Johnston says that at 9 p.m. on the 14th he learned both that Polk had lost a position commanding the bridges and, from Martin, that Union infantry was crossing near Calhoun, and that on the 15th Walker's report of the Federal right crossing caused Hood's attack to be countermanded. Cox says Walker found the south bank clear that night.

Attributed knowledge from interested accounts; no message log inspected. The reports about the crossing conflict in timing.

supportedunresolved Cox says Cox's division exhausted its ammunition in mid-afternoon on the 14th and was relieved by Newton because wagons could not reach it across the creek. Cox and Johnston both refer to the Confederate battery left between the lines: Cox says the guns were brought off by Union troops that night, and Johnston says the four field pieces in Hood's report were the only material lost in the retreat.

Condition statements from interested accounts; no ordnance return inspected.

supportedunresolved Cox says Sherman meant to contract his lines so that much of his force could be withdrawn for another flanking movement south of the Oostanaula, while Hood marched to turn the Union left on the 14th. Johnston says Hood was directed on the 15th to move forward, right leading. NPS says Sherman sent a force across at Lay's Ferry toward Johnston's railroad.

Stated plans from interested accounts and a summary; not a causal estimate.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Inconclusive and the live page Indecisive. Johnston says the attacks of the 14th were all repulsed and that the army crossed the Oostenaula on the night of the 15th, destroying the bridges. Cox says Johnston withdrew that night, burning the railroad bridge. NPS says Johnston, unable to halt the Union crossing, was forced to retire.

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 and live casualty texts read 5,547 (US 2,747; CS 2,800). Cox says the Dalton and Resaca losses cannot be given accurately; at Resaca he puts the Army of the Cumberland's loss at about a thousand and the two engaged Army of the Ohio divisions at nearly a thousand, with fewer in the Army of the Tennessee. The inspected Johnston report gives no Resaca figure.

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. Cox's partial approximations do not reconcile with the frozen Union 2,747, whose basis is not established.

supportedunresolved Johnston says his instructions to Hood were revoked on the night of the 14th, and that Stewart's division, not receiving the countermand from corps headquarters in time, attacked unsuccessfully on the 15th. Cox says Judah's division was repulsed with considerable loss at the angle of the works. NPS says Sherman did not fully exploit his advantage on the Confederate right. The frozen commanders are General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman; the live page gives General William Sherman and Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Johnston.

Attributed judgments from interested accounts and a summary; Hood, Stewart and Judah are not listed commanders; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit, and the live 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 fields name the Military Division of the Mississippi and the Army of Tennessee without counts; the live field reads zero. Cox's Appendix A totals 71,235 officers and men for Johnston at Resaca, built from the May 1 present-for-duty figure and additions including Loring's division, which it says joined on May 12. Johnston says Polk arrived with Loring's division on the 11th and gives the great numerical superiority of the Federal army as a reason for his later course. Cox gives Sherman nearly 100,000 effectives at the opening of the campaign.

A reconstructed Confederate total, a Union opening figure and a qualitative statement; none measures troops engaged on May 13-15 and none is adopted. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Cox says Johnston's strong position had a river at its back, that Schofield's approach over broken ground made moving artillery across the ravines and streams extraordinarily hard, and that the hill carried by Logan's corps on the 14th commanded the railroad and wagon bridges over the Oostanaula. Johnston says Polk's left rested on the Oostenaula. NPS places the Confederates in the hills around Resaca.

Ground described by an interested history, an interested report and a summary; no map verification. The hill position was taken during the battle and is not tagged inherited.