Fort McAllister II GA028

supportedunresolved Hazen says a picket captured about a mile from the fort revealed a line of torpedoes across the road; Cox says the same and that Sherman and Howard watched from the signal station on Cheves's mill, communicating with Hazen.

Attributed knowledge from an interested report and a history.

supportedunresolved Cox says Sherman's first task was to open communication with the fleet and establish a base of supplies, that bread was drawn from the trains and rice was nearly all the country furnished, and that the fort had about fifty days' rations. Hazen lists a month's supply of food among the captures and says his supply train had left Atlanta with 83 six-mule wagons. NPS says Sherman's troops sorely required supplies.

Supply statements from an interested report, a history and a modern summary; no commissary return inspected.

supportedunresolved Hazen was ordered to move down the right bank to Fort McAllister and capture it. Cox says the Ogeechee could not be used until the fort was taken; NPS says Sherman determined that taking the fort would let supply ships reach him.

Stated aims from an interested report, a history and a modern summary.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Hazen says the bugle sounded at 5 o'clock and the fort was carried, the garrison fighting to their bomb-proofs; Cox says it was over in fifteen minutes.

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 205 (US 134; CS 71); the live field reads 384 (US 134; CS 250). Hazen and Cox both give Hazen's loss as 24 killed and 110 wounded. Hazen gives the captured garrison, including killed, as 250; Cox gives the garrison's loss as 48.

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. Hazen's 250 counts the whole garrison captured or killed, not casualties.

supportedunresolved NPS says Sherman ordered Howard to take the fort and Howard chose Hazen. Cox says Hazen delayed the attack to use portions of each of his three brigades, over Colonel W. S. Jones's wish to attack at once, and that there was no formal surrender. Hazen says Martin took command of the Second Brigade when its commander fell. The frozen commanders are Brigadier General Hazen (US) and Major George A. Anderson (CS); Cox names 'Major G. W. Anderson'.

Direction is attributed as the sources state; Cox's initials for Anderson are not adopted. No listed commander receives automatic sole credit.

unknownunresolved

No inspected return establishes matched personnel at a common opening boundary. Imported numerical estimates remain unchanged; this pass does not validate them as simultaneous opening forces.

disputedunresolved The frozen force text reads the 2nd Division, XV Corps against the Fort McAllister garrison (120 men); the live field reads zeros. Hazen says his division had an effective strength of 4,426 on November 15 and that nine regiments were deployed for the assault; he gives the garrison, including killed, as 250. Cox says three regiments from each of the three brigades assaulted and puts the garrison at about 200 under Major G. W. Anderson.

Hazen's 4,426 is a division strength a month earlier; the garrison figures (120, about 200, 250 including killed) differ in source and basis. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Cox describes a heavy earthwork commanding the river, with its gorge closed by an infantry line, the river planted with torpedoes and sub-terra shells along the land face, and the abatis not reaching below high-water mark. Hazen says the ground right of the fort was marshy and cut by deep streams, and that the assault passed torpedoes, abatis, ditches, palisading and parapet.

The fort and its obstacles predate the assault. Narrative descriptions.