Galveston TX002

supportedunresolved Cook says the assembly of vessels the day before gave every reason to expect an attack. Renshaw learned from a deserter that guns were being removed at night.

Knowledge attributed in interested reports; no message log inspected.

supportedunresolved Cook says he had arranged railroad transportation beforehand and, during the truce, removed the guns, machinery and records, all government property except the 10-inch gun being gone by 11 a.m. on the 8th. Renshaw says his ferryboats carried six weeks' provisions and that yellow fever on shore affected his terms.

Movement and supply statements from interested reports; not returns.

disputedunresolved Renshaw demanded the surrender of the forts and then the unconditional surrender of the city. Cook, under standing orders to withdraw if the harbor could not be held, refused to surrender but asked time to remove women and children. Their accounts of the four-day truce differ: Cook says only that no new defenses were to be built or old ones strengthened and the fleet was not to approach; Renshaw says his understanding was that everything should remain as it was, and that the unwritten agreement let the Confederates carry off guns.

Two interested accounts of an unwritten agreement; neither is adopted.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Renshaw says his vessels captured the harbor defenses and city after a feeble resistance; Cook says the troops and material were removed and most of the population left before he withdrew to Virginia Point. The frozen description says the fall of Galveston closed a Confederate port.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads None and the frozen and live casualty fields 0. Neither Cook nor Renshaw gives a casualty figure.

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. Absence of a reported figure is not a measured zero.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Colonel Joseph J. Cook and Colonel X. B. Debray (Confederate) and Commander W. B. Renshaw (navy). Cook commanded at Galveston, answered the surrender demand and negotiated the truce; he says Debray reached the city on the night of the 4th and gave orders the next day. Renshaw commanded the flotilla and agreed the truce with officers of the other vessels present.

Command roles from interested reports; Debray's part is described by Cook only. No 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.

supportedunresolved The frozen force field reads None and the frozen casualty bounds 0; the live field reads 0. Renshaw names the Westfield, Harriet Lane, Owasco, Clifton and the schooner Henry Janes. Cook says the blockading fleet numbered eight vessels, four armed steamers and a mortar-boat, and that the vessels fired about twenty guns on a battery of one 10-inch gun; two 24-pounders fired from the bay side of the city.

Vessel lists and gun counts, not personnel. None is adopted as a matched opening strength.

supportedunresolved Renshaw says a battery on Pelican Island proved to be dummy guns, and that silencing the town battery would have meant firing through the populated town where the consular flags flew. Cook says the Fort Point garrison retreated across low, open ground.

Harbor and town features from interested reports; the dummy battery was a prepared feature, so the tag stays unresolved. No chart inspected.