Hoover's Gap TN017

supportedunresolved Bate says scattered Kentucky cavalry pickets brought him word that they had been driven from beyond the gap, and that Colonel Butler told him three Union cavalry regiments had passed down the Manchester pike. Cist says Rosecrans's plan depended on keeping Bragg's attention on a feint toward Shelbyville.

Attributed knowledge from two interested accounts; no inspected message log.

supportedunresolved Cist says drenching rains made the dirt roads next to impassable and delayed Brannan's junction with the XIV Corps; Bate says his men marched through a drenching rain and were wet and exhausted by the fight, and that his ordnance officer brought up ammunition under fire.

Movement and supply statements from two interested accounts; no inspected return.

supportedunresolved Cist says Rosecrans planned to make Bragg's entrenchments useless by turning his right and, if possible, securing his line of retreat at the Elk River bridge, and that Thomas was ordered to seize and hold Hoover's Gap if practicable. NPS says Rosecrans feigned an attack on Shelbyville and massed against Bragg's right.

Stated plans from an interested history and a summary; the quoted orders are part of Cist.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Cist says Thomas drove the Confederates toward Fairfield on the 26th, and that Wilder's brigade then seized Matt's Hollow and on the 27th took Manchester; NPS says the Federals easily pushed aside the Kentucky cavalry holding the gap. Bate says the fewer than 700 men of his brigade engaged held the Federals at bay until nightfall on the 24th and conducted the retreat of the 26th in good order.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Bragg's evacuation of Middle Tennessee is campaign context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads Unknown; the live field reads 583 total (US 583; CS 0;). Bate says his list of killed and wounded of the 650 engaged, in his account of the June 24 action, was 146, which he puts at nearly twenty-five per cent. Cist gives 231 killed and wounded for Johnson's Union command, including Carlin's brigade, in the Confederate attack at Liberty Gap that he places on the day after Johnson's advance to the gap; this separate action is not assigned to Hoover's Gap.

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. Cist's Liberty Gap figure is not assigned to Hoover's Gap; the live Confederate zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Cist says Reynolds's division was in advance; Wilder, finding the enemy about to attack with two brigades, occupied a strong position on the hills at the southern entrance of the gap, and when his brigade was attacked Reynolds supported him with his other brigades. Bate says he took the liberty of commanding the detachment in person, and that Stewart arrived with reinforcements about sundown and took command. NPS says Stewart told Johnson and Bate on the 26th that he was pulling back. The frozen and live commanders are Thomas and Stewart, both Major Generals.

Command roles from two interested accounts and a summary; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit.

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 XIV Army Corps and Bate's and Johnson's brigades with Butler's Kentucky cavalry, without counts; the live field reads zero. Cist gives the "effective total present" reported by Bragg for his army at Shelbyville on June 20 as 43,089, and says Wilder found the enemy about to attack him with two brigades. Bate says less than 700 men, about half his brigade, fought on June 24, later giving 650 engaged, against what he calls vastly superior force.

Army-wide, brigade and engaged figures differ in scope; none is adopted as matched opening strength. Live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Cist describes Hoover's Gap as a narrow passage three miles long between high hills, followed by Matt's Hollow, a two-mile gorge, and says the gaps were held by strong Confederate forces. Bate says one artillery section on an eminence on his right, with his advanced skirmishers, commanded the exit from the gap going east, and that he later moved the artillery engaged on his left to hills in his rear that overlooked the entire battle-ground.

Natural ground and positions chosen on the day; boundaries unset and no map verification.