Champion Hill MS009

supportedunresolved The NPS summary says Pemberton was unaware that a Union column was moving along the Jackson Road against his unprotected left flank, while also saying he posted Lee to watch for 'the reported Union column'; it then reports that Lee and the Union troops sighted each other and that Pemberton received warning and sent troops to his left flank.

The summary does not reconcile 'unaware' with 'the reported Union column' or give times for these steps; keep the sequence unresolved rather than infer what Pemberton knew when. No information-quality score is implied.

supportedcommander_created Pemberton and his generals instead chose the Union supply trains as their target.

This is a candidate pre-engagement decision, not an inherited disadvantage. The source attributes it jointly to Pemberton and his generals, so the commander_created tag does not give Pemberton sole credit.

supportedinherited Johnston ordered Pemberton to attack the Federals at Clinton.

The NPS summary reports Johnston's order, placed after the Union occupation of Jackson but otherwise undated, and a further order from Johnston repeating those directions, which Pemberton received on May 16. Both are retrospective NPS paraphrases, not the correspondence (see open question 1). Inherited is a hypothesis relative to Pemberton; Johnston is not a listed MS009 commander.

supportedpost_outcome Union victory

Preserve the imported battle result while investigating campaign contribution.

supportedunresolved The NPS summary attributes the countermarch and the order withdrawing his men from the field to Pemberton, and the order to begin the attack (on his arrival around 10:00 am) and the later counterattack with forces just arrived from Clinton to Grant; it names Bowen's division's counterattack and Tilghman's rearguard as subordinate actions.

Attribution of orders as narrated in one retrospective summary; it does not apportion credit or blame, and no action is automatically credited to both listed commanders. Clock times are the source's approximate labels.

supportedunresolved The NPS narrative reports Pemberton commanding about 23,000 men at the time of Johnston's order; the structured MS009 force descriptions name formations without numbers.

A force under command when the order was issued, not personnel engaged, and not tied by the source to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana named in the force row; it is not automatically promoted. arnold-cwsac-forces MS009/Confederate and MS009/US have blank strength_min and strength_max, and the arnold-cwsac-battles strength cell is blank; blank cells cannot be quoted, so this absence is recorded as an inspected observation. No Union figure is given.

supportedunresolved The NPS summary places Pemberton's defensive line along a ridge crest overlooking Jackson Creek, with Lee's men atop Champion Hill as a lookout, and gives the Raymond Road crossing of Bakers Creek as the one escape route still open during the withdrawal.

Qualitative terrain from one retrospective NPS summary; no elevations, distances (other than the rear's position) or assessment of advantage. Phase is unresolved because the boundaries are unset.