Donaldsonville LA004

disputedunresolved Farragut says he heard firing from the town on the Sallie Robinson and the Brooklyn and that the St. Charles was fired on the next night; his August 8 order says Renshaw had told him the town was warned after the Empire Parish was fired into. The committee says no armed vessels had been assailed.

Attributed knowledge from interested documents on each side; the committee's statement and Farragut's account of the Brooklyn differ.

supportedunresolved Farragut says the landing party brought off ten or twelve of Landry's slaves and supplied the ships with cattle and sheep from his place. No supply return was inspected.

An interested report; not a supply return.

supportedunresolved Farragut ordered notice given to send women and children out of Plaquemine and Donaldsonville because he intended to destroy them for firing into his vessels, and a printed proclamation over his name says a portion of the town would be burned each time his boats were fired on. The committee resolved to ask Governor Moore to avert further destruction.

Stated aims from interested documents on each side.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory (inconclusive); the live result reads Union Victory. Farragut says he fulfilled his promise to a certain extent, burning the hotels, wharf buildings and Landry's houses; the committee says the most valuable portion of the town and an adjacent plantation's buildings were consumed. NPS says firing on Union ships generally ceased afterwards.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The frozen and live results differ in qualification; the later cessation of firing is not tested by the inspected documents.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads None known, and the live field reads zero. Neither Farragut's report nor the committee's gives a casualty 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. An absent figure is not a measured zero. The frozen force table's casualty fields read 0 for each side; those zeros are not measured zeros either.

supportedunresolved Farragut ordered the destruction and signed as Flag-Officer; he names Phillippe Landry as said to be a captain of guerrillas who fired on his men and was chased off. The frozen commanders are Captain Phillippe Landry and Rear Admiral David G. Farragut; the live page gives Farragut as Admiral.

Command roles from interested documents; Landry's command is reported only as hearsay. The listed commanders do not receive automatic sole credit, and neither the frozen nor the live naval rank is 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 field reads Three Navy ships [US] and a few partisans [CS]; the live field reads zero. The St. James committee says two sloops of war and one gunboat under Farragut anchored before the town and landed a force; Farragut names no count. No inspected passage gives the number of partisans.

Unit identifications and a ship count from an interested civilian report. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved The committee says the ships anchored immediately in front of the town and that the coast was exposed because the enemy held the whole river; Farragut had anchored about six miles above the town on the way up.

Position described by an interested civilian report and an interested report; no map verification.