Jackson TN009

supportedcommander_created Jordan and Pryor say Forrest disposed his force near Jackson to deceive the Federals about his numbers, displayed cavalry ostentatiously, and later had captured drums beaten to suggest infantry; NPS says Forrest treated the fight as a feint and show of force.

Attributed deception by the Confederate commander, from a history he endorsed; its effect on Union knowledge is not established.

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say Forrest set out with only ten rounds of caps for his shot-guns and many flintless muskets, and that arms captured near Jackson were distributed in place of inferior ones.

Combines an outset condition (inherited at any Jackson boundary) with arms captured by detachments Forrest ordered out the night before the December 19 skirmish and distributed on their return; Jordan and Pryor place his arrival and first skirmishing at Jackson on the afternoon of December 18. With replacement boundaries unset, the captured-arms part may be inherited or commander-created. From the commander-endorsed history; no ordnance return inspected.

supportedunresolved NPS says Forrest wished to interrupt Grant's rail supply line and that, to Forrest, the Jackson fight was a feint to hold the defenders in place while two mounted columns destroyed track north and south of the town. Jordan and Pryor say detachments sent out at eight o'clock the previous night broke the railroad, captured stations and returned about daylight, before the sunrise skirmish.

Stated objectives from a summary and a commander-endorsed history; no inspected order. Both describe railroad destruction, but NPS makes the raids concurrent with the fight while Jordan and Pryor place them on the night of December 18–19, before it. The sequence is unresolved and no holding effect is established.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen result is Confederate victory, as is the live field. NPS says Englemann's regiments repulsed a Confederate mounted attack and that the Federals checked a demonstration while other Confederates fulfilled part of the mission; Jordan and Pryor say the Federals were driven to their entrenchments.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The sources describe the local fight differently; the frozen label is retained.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads Total unknown (US 6; CS unknown); the live NPS field reads 6 total (US 6; CS 0;). Jordan and Pryor claim a Federal loss of about thirty killed and wounded in the December 19 skirmish, and about five hundred prisoners from the several combats around Jackson.

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 live CS zero replaces a frozen 'unknown' and is not measured absence; the prisoner figure spans several actions.

supportedunresolved NPS says Sullivan ordered Englemann out with a small force, and names Englemann's two infantry regiments. The live heading ranks Forrest Major General against the frozen Brigadier General, which the NPS narrative also uses.

Garrison and field command are distinct; neither listed commander receives automatic sole credit. The heading rank is not adopted.

unknownunresolved

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 text names two regiments of the Jackson garrison and a detachment of Forrest's cavalry of approx. 400, with structured Confederate bounds of 400/400; the live field reads zero. NPS gives Forrest's whole brigade as 2,100 men; Jordan and Pryor give about 1,800 officers and men and four guns at the outset.

Detachment, brigade and outset figures are different populations; the brigade figures differ between the sources. None is adopted as matched opening strength. Live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Jordan and Pryor describe Jackson's works as a heavy line of infantry epaulements connecting five or six open-gorge works for field-pieces commanding the approaches; NPS places the December 19 fight at Old Salem Cemetery.

Pre-existing works from a Confederate retrospective account; no map verification or numerical terrain effect.