Port Hudson LA010

supportedunresolved Irwin says no minutes were kept of the council before May 27, no time was fixed to make the attacks simultaneous, and no division could see another. Miles on July 7 took the Union cheering over Vicksburg's fall for fictitious news; Irwin says Gardner then asked for official assurance that Vicksburg had surrendered.

Attributed knowledge from a history and an interested report; no order books or signal logs inspected.

supportedunresolved Irwin says the Confederate commanders had to husband a scanty store of ammunition, that the Union surgeons' supplies were exceeded on May 27, that the animals went on half or quarter rations of grain after July 3, and that the starving garrison had to be fed after the surrender. Miles says his men were worked and fought without rest day or night.

Supply statements from a history and an interested report; not returns.

supportedunresolved Irwin says Pemberton ordered Gardner to hold the place to the last while Johnston ordered its evacuation too late, and that Banks's council judged prompt action demanded; Banks's June summons demanded surrender to avoid unnecessary slaughter, and Gardner declined. Miles wrote on July 6 that he would hold his line as long as a man stood up.

Stated aims from a history (quoting the summons and reply) and an interested report.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory and the live result Union Victory. Irwin calls the June 14 attack a bloody repulse and the terms an unconditional surrender; he quotes Gardner as willing to surrender having defended the place as long as duty required. NPS says the garrison surrendered on July 9 after hearing of Vicksburg's fall.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The repulsed assaults of May 27 and June 14 are phases of this record; the surrender is its end.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 12,208 total (US 5,000; CS 7,208); the live field reads 17500 total (US 10000; CS 7500). Irwin gives Union losses of 1,995 on May 27, 1,805 on June 14 and 4,363 for the siege, and says at least as many more were sick. He cites a partial undated Confederate surgeon's return of 176 killed and 447 wounded (623), excluding Plains Store, and Jackson's report of 200 killed, 300-400 wounded and 200 dead of sickness; Beall's brigade lost 358 to June 1. Miles reports 4 killed and 11 wounded on his line on June 14. The garrison surrendered 6,340 prisoners.

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. The frozen and live totals differ widely; their basis is not stated. That they include the surrendered garrison is an inference from their size, not a stated fact. Sick are not battle casualties.

supportedunresolved Irwin says Banks ordered the May 27 assault after the council, put Weitzel over the right wing, and resolved to replace T. W. Sherman when his division had not attacked by noon; Grover and Weitzel agreed to wait before renewing the attack. Miles says he sent support to Beall on May 27 without waiting for orders. Irwin says Gardner summoned his commanders to a council ("That evening"; the selected passage does not give the date) and tendered his sword at the surrender. The frozen commanders are Major Generals Franklin Gardner and Nathaniel P. Banks, as on the live page.

Command roles from a history and an interested report; the listed commanders do not receive automatic sole credit.

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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.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field reads XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf [US] and the Confederate forces of the 3rd District at Port Hudson [CS]; the live field reads zero. Irwin says Gardner held the place with about seven thousand of all arms after the garrison of 16,287 present for duty at the end of March had been drawn on for Vicksburg; that the besiegers outnumbered the garrison rather more than two to one on May 26; that the besiegers' effective strength never exceeded 17,000, with less than 12,000 available for the siege and hardly 8,000 effective outside the cavalry at the end; and that 6,340 prisoners were taken. His footnote on the besiegers' strength says the Union monthly and tri-monthly returns for May and June simply carry March forward. Miles says on July 6 that he had less than 400 muskets for over a mile and a half of breastworks.

Figures for different dates, bases and scopes from a history and an interested report; the prisoner count is a post-surrender figure and not an opening strength. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Irwin says the works ran four and a half miles in a semicircle from the river below the town to the swamp above, over ravines, plantation fields and gullies, in country covered with heavy magnolia forest; the woods came within 250 yards of the works on Weitzel's front and 1,200 on Sherman's, and felled timber made a formidable obstruction on Augur's approach.

Ground described by a history; no map verification. The works and felled timber predate the assaults, but their state on each day is not established, so the phase is left unresolved.