Plains Store LA009

supportedunresolved Miles says he had no means of knowing the enemy's exact number. Irwin says Augur had to deploy as if against the full enemy force, and that no complete reports of the affair were made. NPS says Miles arrived after the first fighting had ceased.

Attributed knowledge from an interested report, a history and a summary; no dispatches inspected.

supportedunresolved Miles says he brought off 23 of his wounded, all he could furnish transportation for. No other supply statement was found in the inspected passages.

One statement from an interested report; not a return.

supportedunresolved Irwin says Augur marched to seize the enemy's line of retreat at the crossing of the Plains Store and Bayou Sara roads and open the way for Banks, and that Gardner sent Miles to feel Augur's advance and perhaps drive it away; NPS says Augur was securing a landing for Banks. Miles says he moved out under orders.

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

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory and the live result Union Victory. Miles says Boone's fire let him withdraw at leisure and in good order; Irwin says it enabled Miles to retire behind the breastworks. NPS says the last escape route was closed.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The closing of the investment is campaign context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 250 total (US 150; CS 100), and the live field agrees. Irwin gives the Union loss as 15 killed, 3 officers and 69 men wounded and 25 missing (102). Miles reports 89 killed, wounded and missing, knowing only of 8 killed and 23 wounded, and says the enemy reported burying 40 of his dead; Irwin also cites a surgeon's return of 12 killed and 36 wounded at Plains Store.

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.

supportedunresolved Irwin says Grierson's advance met a detachment under Colonel S. P. Powers of the 14th Arkansas, and that Dudley and Chapin supported Augur's guns; Miles ordered a section of Boone's battery forward to rake the Union flank. The frozen commanders are Colonel Frank P. Powers, Colonel William R. Miles and Major General Christopher C. Augur; the live page lists Augur and Frank Powers.

Command roles from a history and an interested report; Powers's initials differ between Irwin and the frozen record, and the listed commanders do not receive automatic sole credit.

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 1st Division, XIX Army Corps and Cavalry Brigade [US] and a small combined infantry, artillery and cavalry force [CS]; the live field reads zero. Miles says he moved out with 400 infantry and a battery, and that prisoners put the enemy at fifteen regiments besides artillery and a large cavalry force; Irwin gives Miles's battalion as about 400 with Boone's battery and lists Augur's brigades, squadron and batteries without numbers.

Confederate detachment figures from an interested report and a history that follows it; no Union count. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Irwin says Grierson met the Confederates at the wood bounding the plain and that Miles met Augur in the heavy forest masking the crossroads; NPS places the objective at the intersection of the Plains Store and Bayou Sara roads. Miles says his skirmishers found the Union infantry near Plains Store.

Ground described by a history, a summary and an interested report; no map verification.