Mount Zion Church MO010

supportedunresolved Prentiss sent a troop to reconnoitre near Hallsville on the 27th, and learned the enemy's numbers and position from prisoners taken on the road on the 28th.

Knowledge attributed in an interested report and a history based on it.

supportedunresolved Prentiss marched 16 miles from Sturgeon before contact, collected wagons for his wounded and returned to Sturgeon the same evening; he took 90 horses and 105 stand of arms.

March and evacuation from an interested report; not a return.

supportedunresolved Britton says Halleck directed Prentiss to open a vigorous campaign against the Southern forces of North Missouri and that Prentiss determined to break up their organization; Prentiss says he moved in pursuance of general orders.

Aims from a history and an interested report.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Union victory. Prentiss says the rebels retreated and his victory was complete by about 11 a.m.; Britton says they were driven off in the greatest disorder, leaving their dead and wounded.

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 282 (US 72; CS 210). Prentiss reports 3 killed, 17 severely and 46 slightly wounded for Mount Zion and the previous evening's skirmish together, and enemy losses of 25 killed and 150 wounded, with 30 prisoners taken; Britton repeats these figures.

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. Prentiss's Union figures include the December 27 skirmish near Hallsville and must not be assigned to this record alone.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Colonel Caleb Dorsey (read 'Horsey' in OCR) and Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss. Prentiss directed the attack; he says Glover moved at the double-quick to support the three engaged companies and the two reserve companies came in as the enemy gave way.

Command roles from an interested report; no Confederate account was inspected and there is no automatic sole credit.

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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 force field gives detachments of the 3rd Missouri Cavalry (about 240) and Birge's Sharpshooters (about 200), 440 in the forces table, and an unknown Confederate force; the frozen description says 5 mounted companies and 2 companies of sharpshooters. Prentiss says five troops of cavalry and five companies of sharpshooters numbering 470 marched, and that prisoners put the enemy near 900. Britton gives the same 470 and nine hundred.

Prentiss's marching force and his prisoners' estimate; the company counts in the frozen description and the report differ. None is adopted as a matched opening strength.

supportedunresolved Prentiss says the enemy was posted at the church a mile and a half ahead, and that sharpshooters went through a field on his right to drive them from the woods.

Ground described by an interested report; no map verification.