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supportedunresolved Cox says Garrard's absence let Hardee approach without warning, that Hardee did not know Dodge's corps was there until he struck it, that the Confederate works were ostentatiously manned in a ruse no one suspected, and that Sherman's despatch to McPherson was found on prisoners. NPS says McPherson, concerned about his flank, sent Dodge there.

Attributed knowledge from an interested history and a summary; no message log inspected.

supportedunresolved Cox says the Army of the Tennessee's supply trains and field hospitals lay between Dodge's corps and the front, that McPherson ordered them out as the attack began, that Wheeler attacked the trains' guard at Decatur, and that on July 21 the heat prostrated staff officers.

Movement and condition statements from an interested history; no supply return inspected.

supportedunresolved Hood says Hardee was ordered to march south by the McDonough road and completely turn McPherson's left, even to Decatur, with Cheatham to take up the movement as Hardee gained ground. Cox says Hood hoped to roll up Sherman's army from the south.

Stated plans from interested accounts; not a causal estimate.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Hood says Hardee held the ground he gained, Cheatham carried works but had to abandon them, McPherson's movement on his communications was entirely defeated though the grand results were not achieved, and the engagement revived the troops' confidence. Cox says the Fifteenth Corps counter-charge retook the line and all but two lost guns, and the crisis passed. NPS says the Union troops held.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Hood's campaign-level claim about McPherson's movement is not the tactical result.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live casualty texts read 12,140 (US 3,641; CS 8,499). Cox gives the Union loss as 3,521 with ten guns; counts about 3,200 Confederate dead delivered or buried (partly estimated), halves the estimated part to reach at least 2,500 killed, adds 2,000 prisoners and accepts Logan's ten thousand as the minimum. Hood says Cheatham took 5 guns and Hardee 8 guns and 13 colours.

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 Confederate total is an inference from burial counts; the frozen Union 3,641 differs from Cox's 3,521. Hood's 13 guns taken (5 by Cheatham, 8 by Hardee) and Cox's ten Union guns lost conflict; neither is adopted.

disputedunresolved Hood says Hardee failed to turn the enemy's left as directed. Cox rejects Hood's complaint about Hardee's march; says a refused request to burn the house helped cause the break in the Fifteenth Corps line; that Sherman ordered Schofield's artillery onto the break; and that Sherman put Logan in command after McPherson's death. The frozen commanders are General John Bell Hood and Major General William T. Sherman; the live page gives General William Sherman and General John Hood.

Attributed judgments in dispute from interested accounts; Hardee, McPherson and Logan 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.

supportedunresolved The frozen force fields name the two armies without counts; the live field reads zero. Cox calls the first attack one of four divisions upon four, names Hardee's divisions (Maney, Cleburne, Walker, Bate), and gives Hood's July 31 return (present 65,601, effectives 44,495) in Appendix A. Hood says Hardee moved with his corps and Wheeler's cavalry on his right, with Cheatham to take up the attack; his army's effective strength on July 18 was 48,750.

Division counts and army totals at different dates (July 18 and July 31) and bases; none measures the troops engaged and none is adopted. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Cox says Hardee's approach crossed thickets and broken country where it was often impossible to see ten paces, that his attack on Dodge crossed open fields, that a railway cut and a house masked Cheatham's advance on the Fifteenth Corps, and that the form of Blair's works let Smith's division repel the first assault. Hood says the old city works were useless from their position, so a new line was built. NPS says Sherman massed twenty guns on a knoll.

Ground described by interested accounts and a summary; no map verification. The new Confederate line was built on the night of July 21 and is not tagged inherited.