Corydon IN001

supportedunresolved NPS says Union officials called out the Indiana and Ohio militia and worked feverishly to organize a defense. Duke says an unexpected fusillade from the Indiana shore met the crossing, mist having hidden the firing party's arrival, that a great fear had fallen on the inhabitants, and that Hobson was from twenty-four to thirty-six hours behind at Garnettsville.

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

supportedunresolved Duke says the second brigade and the artillery were ferried across by midnight on July 8, one boat in Government employ was then burned and the other released, and the first brigade encamped about six miles from the river; he describes abandoned houses whose suppers his party finished.

Movement statements from an interested history; no supply, ammunition or transport return was inspected.

supportedunresolved NPS says Morgan rode to disrupt the communications of the Army of the Cumberland and crossed the Ohio despite orders to remain in Kentucky. Duke, who says he was not present at the interview, relays Morgan's account that Bragg ordered him to confine himself to Kentucky and that Morgan intended nevertheless to cross the Ohio, arguing that a raid into Indiana and Ohio would draw the troops in Kentucky after him.

Stated aims from a summary and an interested, secondhand history; orders not separately inspected.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. NPS says Morgan's force captured most of the Home Guards; Duke says the militia broke and ran into the town and the division passed through Corydon on the Salem road.

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 401 (US 360; CS 41); the live field reads 411 (US 360; CS 51). Duke says the militia killed and wounded several men, including Lieutenant Thorpe. Burnside's compiled return of Union casualties for the raid, July 2–26, names volunteer, regular and garrison commands but no Indiana militia unit; its OCR total row reads 1, 18, 3, 44, 8 and 74, the last equalling the sum of the others (a computation here).

Frozen and live Confederate counts differ. The raid-wide return does not account for the Corydon militia and is not assigned to this record; no canonical reconciliation.

supportedunresolved Duke attributes the Corydon attack to a Colonel Morgan's advance guard (no initials in Duke's passage) and a regiment of the second brigade, and says he does not justify General Morgan's disobedience of orders. The frozen commanders are Lewis Jordan, Brevet Colonel, and John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General; the live heading gives Colonel Lewis Jordan. No inspected passage describes Jordan's command.

Command roles from an interested history; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit, and the live rank is not adopted.

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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 and live fields give 2,200 (US 400; CS 1,800). NPS says Morgan entered Kentucky on July 2 with about 2,450 hand-picked cavalrymen and that elements of his force met about 400 Home Guards near Corydon. Duke gives the division's entire strength as 2,460 effective men, exclusive of four guns, in a passage (p.415) that does not itself state its date; at Corydon he describes a Colonel Morgan's advance guard (Duke gives no initials) and one regiment of the second brigade. Burnside wrote on July 22 that Morgan's force when he entered Indiana did not vary far from 3,000 men.

Start-of-raid, Indiana-entry and engaged-element figures differ in scope; Duke's 2,460 and Burnside's 3,000 conflict. None is adopted as matched opening strength.

supportedunresolved Duke says the militia at Corydon were posted behind rail barricades and resolutely defended their rail piles until a flank demonstration broke them. He puts the Ohio at the crossing some 800 to 1,000 yards wide; NPS places the crossing at Mauckport, Indiana.

Barricades raised by the defenders before the attack and the river crossing of the previous day; the barricades were built within the operation, so no inherited tag is used. No map verification.