Dandridge TN028

supportedunresolved Sturgis says he received information about noon on the 17th that the enemy was preparing to attack and formed line of battle; on returning after dark he found the infantry and trains already moving toward Strawberry Plains. Longstreet says the Union retreat seemed hasty and not in very good order and judges the enemy much demoralized.

Attributed knowledge and judgments from interested accounts.

supportedunresolved Sturgis says his command moved to Dandridge on the 14th for forage and subsistence and spent the 15th issuing clothing and boots. Longstreet says his infantry was not in condition to pursue, half the men being without shoes; that his cavalry was almost as badly off for clothing, with nearly half its horses unshod, but was sent forward to distress the enemy; and that his workmen could make only one hundred pairs of shoes a day. NPS says the Confederates were unable to pursue for lack of cannons, ammunition and shoes; the inspected Longstreet passage gives shoes as the infantry's reason and reports that the cavalry was sent forward.

Condition statements from interested accounts and a summary; no supply return inspected.

supportedunresolved Longstreet says the enemy aimed to throw him out of position by turning his left, and that on the 15th he advanced Hood's and Buckner's divisions to meet the move and threaten the Union base at New Market. Sturgis says he moved on the 16th with the intention of occupying Kimbrough's Cross-Roads. NPS says the Confederates failed to destroy or capture the Federals as they should have.

Stated aims and a summary's judgment; not a causal estimate.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Sturgis says his troops did not fall back to their afternoon ground until after dark. Longstreet says the enemy retired in the night to New Market and Strawberry Plains, leaving his dead on the field. NPS says the Federals held about the same line until after dark and fell back in the night.

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 Total unknown (US 150; CS unknown); the live field reads 150 (US 150; CS 0). Sturgis gives his cavalry's casualties for the 16th and 17th as 83. Longstreet had no casualty report but thought the casualties of the two days' skirmishing — read here as his own, since he awaited the report; the sentence names no side — could not exceed 150, possibly not half of that.

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. Longstreet's 150 is read as an upper estimate of his own losses and must not be adopted as or equated with the frozen Union 150, whose basis is not established; Sturgis's 83 excludes infantry and spans two days.

supportedunresolved Sturgis says Parke ordered him to retire the cavalry, and points to McCook's report of an infantry regiment commander refusing assistance. Longstreet says the enemy seemed to have been in his power again, had it been possible to take the opportunity. The frozen commanders are Lieutenant General James Longstreet and Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis; the live page gives Major General for both.

Attributed judgments from interested accounts; the retirement order came from Parke, who is not a listed commander; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit, and the live ranks are not adopted.

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 Cavalry Corps, Army of the Ohio, and IV Corps infantry against the Department of East Tennessee without counts; the live field reads zero. Sturgis says his cavalry engaged the enemy's entire cavalry and three brigades of infantry of Johnson's and Hood's divisions, and on the 16th met an infantry division with artillery at the cross-roads. Longstreet says part of Hood's division, its sharpshooters and Martin's dismounted cavalry made the movement of the 17th.

No count is inspected; the accounts differ in the Confederate force engaged. None is adopted. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Sturgis calls Kimbrough's Cross-Roads, 9 miles from Dandridge, the most important point in his front and says the enemy held it with infantry. His line for the 17th ran from the French Broad River 2 miles above Dandridge across the Chucky, Bull's Gap and Mossy Creek roads. Longstreet says the object of the 17th was a favorable position for future operations, gained only a little after dark.

Positions described by interested accounts; no map verification. The line was taken during the operation and is not tagged inherited.