Dover TN012

supportedunresolved NPS says the Federals, apprised of Wheeler's intent, kept boats off the river, and that informers told Wheeler the garrison was small; Cist says Rosecrans heard of the movement from scouts and sent Davis to take Wheeler in the rear.

Summaries of what each side knew; no inspected message log.

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say an inspection before the attack found Forrest's brigade with fifteen rounds for small arms and Wharton's with twenty, and the command short of subsistence; NPS says both sides were mostly out of ammunition by dusk, and Jordan and Pryor that the Confederates had to withdraw for want of it.

Supply statements from the commander-endorsed history and a summary; no inspected return. The inspection precedes the interval; the dusk condition lies inside it.

supportedunresolved Cist says Bragg ordered Wheeler to capture Fort Donelson; NPS says Wheeler, unable to disrupt shipping, attacked the Dover garrison; Jordan and Pryor say Forrest urged the expedition's abandonment.

Stated objectives from summaries and the commander-endorsed history; Forrest's objection is attributed through a book he endorsed.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. NPS and Cist say the Confederate assaults were repulsed and Wheeler withdrew.

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 796 total (US 126; CS 670); the live NPS field reads 965 total (US 110; CS 855;). Cist gives Wheeler's loss as 150 killed, 400 wounded and 150 captured, and Harding's as 16 killed, 60 wounded and 50 captured; Jordan and Pryor give Forrest's brigade two hundred killed, wounded and captured.

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. Jordan and Pryor's category list is partly reconstructed: 'wounded' rests on the cropped OCR 'td'.

supportedunresolved Jordan and Pryor say Forrest's views passed without heed, and report Wheeler explaining that Wharton had been unable to get ready to attack simultaneously; NPS says Forrest afterward denounced Wheeler and refused to serve under him again. The live heading ranks Harding Brigadier General against the frozen Colonel.

Command friction from the commander-endorsed history and a summary; the frozen commanders Wheeler and Harding do not receive 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 gives approx. 800 Union (two regimental detachments and artillery) and approx. 2,500 Confederate cavalry, with matching structured bounds; the live field reads 3300 total (US 800; CS 2500;). Cist gives Harding some six hundred men of the 83rd Illinois and Wharton some twenty-five hundred, plus Forrest's brigade with four guns; Jordan and Pryor give Forrest about 800 men and four guns and Wharton some 2,000.

Frozen, NPS and book figures differ in scope; none is adopted as matched opening strength.

disputedunresolved Cist says six gunboats aided Harding in the latter part of the engagement; Jordan and Pryor, in cropped OCR lines, say the Federal gunboats came up about eight o'clock, after the Confederates had been withdrawn from under the Federal fire, cannonaded without doing any harm, and that the Confederates began to retire an hour later.

The sources conflict on whether naval fire was part of the engagement; neither is adopted. Jordan's timing and the words completing 'at' and 'from under' are cropped in the scan; only intact words are quoted and 'at night' is not verified against print.

supportedinherited NPS says the garrison had chosen commanding camps and dug rifle pits and battery emplacements; Jordan and Pryor describe a rifle-pit around the village commanded by a redoubt on a knoll in the public square, facing a ridge across a narrow valley seamed by a deep gully.

Pre-existing works and ground at the opening boundary; no map verification or numerical terrain effect.