Wilson's Creek MO004

supportedunresolved Snead says McCulloch could learn nothing positive about Lyon's strength, and that the Confederates were unaware of Lyon's approach because they had withdrawn their pickets at midnight. He says Sigel's men took the gray-clad Third Louisiana for the First Iowa; Sturgis says troops dressed like Sigel's and carrying the American flag were allowed to approach, and that he had no written report of Sigel's column.

Attributed knowledge from a participant history and an interested report; no message log inspected.

supportedunresolved Sturgis says his men had had no water since the evening before, their ammunition was well-nigh exhausted, and most had fired away all they had. Snead says most Missourians had no cartridge-boxes and carried ammunition in their pockets, and that ripening corn was to be the army's only subsistence for a day or two. NPS says Sturgis's ammunition was low.

Conditions from an interested report, a participant history and a summary; not supply returns.

supportedunresolved Snead says Lyon resolved to move at night and surprise the enemy's camp at daybreak, then split his force to send Sigel against the Confederate right, and that Price forced the Confederate advance by threatening to resume command and attack alone. Sturgis says Lyon came to the determination of attacking the camp on the 9th.

Stated plans from a participant history and an interested report.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Sturgis says a perfect rout took place in the rebel front and his men withdrew at their leisure; Snead says the Federals abandoned the field.

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 2,330 (US 1,235; CS 1,095); the live field reads 1,781 (US 1,317; CS 464). Sturgis reports 1,235 killed, wounded and missing, matching the total of the return printed with his report, and guesses the enemy's at 3,000. Snead gives 1,317 Federal killed, wounded and missing and 1,230 Confederate killed and wounded, and 293 lost in Sigel's column.

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 return's columns are garbled in OCR; only its printed total is cited.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Major General Sterling Price and Brigadier General Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon and Samuel D. Sturgis as Major General; Sturgis signs his report as Major, First Cavalry. Snead says McCulloch accepted command of the combined armies and Price turned over the State Guard to him. Lyon was killed; Sturgis says Schofield reported to him for orders, and Snead that command devolved on Sturgis, who decided to retreat.

Command roles from a participant history and an interested report; no automatic sole credit, and the frozen rank for Sturgis is not 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.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field names the Army of the West and the Missouri State Guard with McCulloch's brigade, with no figures; the live field reads zero. Sturgis says 3,700 men attacked an enemy numbering 23,000 and that over 20,000 were still in front at Lyon's death. Snead gives Sigel's column about twelve hundred and Lyon's about four thousand two hundred; the Union 3,500 who went into action on Bloody Hill against Price's 4,200 there; Price's first line over thirty-one hundred against Lyon's front of nearly nineteen hundred; McIntosh's thousand in the cornfield; and Pearce's idle brigade of more than 1,700. Snead also calls Lyon's army six or seven thousand and the Confederate force twice as great.

Column, engaged, sector and whole-army figures of different populations and moments, from an interested Union report and a Confederate participant history. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedinherited Snead describes Bloody Hill rising nearly a hundred feet from the creek, seamed with ravines and sink-holes and densely covered with undergrowth; Sturgis says the ground was wooded with much undergrowth, so Totten's battery came into action by section and piece.

Natural ground as described by a participant history and an interested report; no map verification.