Galveston TX003

supportedunresolved Magruder says he passed through the city at night with 80 men to inspect the abandoned forts. Davis says the naval officers assured the companies of safety on the wharf, and that the pickets were driven in about 3 a.m.

Knowledge attributed in interested reports; no message log inspected.

supportedunresolved Magruder says the heavy guns were hauled 7 to 9 miles between sunset and midnight and that the railway track from Virginia Point to Galveston, which had been permitted to remain, carried his heavy gun toward the fleet. Davis lists intrenching tools for 500 men, thirty days' commissary supplies, medical stores and about 25,000 rounds lost.

Movement and stores from interested reports; not returns.

supportedunresolved Magruder says he meant to destroy the Union land forces in detail as they arrived and counted with confidence only on expelling the fleet. Davis says Burrell's orders were to land and take post.

Stated aims from interested reports.

disputedpost_outcome Davis says the companies were marched off as prisoners while flags of truce were still flying at all points. Magruder says the Union vessels left the harbor under a flag of truce in violation of military propriety and that no gun was fired by his men during the stipulated period.

Opposing interested accounts of the truce; neither is adopted.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Magruder says he captured the garrison, the Harriet Lane, two barks and a schooner; Davis that the Harriet Lane was captured, the companies taken and the Westfield blown up.

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 and the live field read 650 (US 600; CS 50). Magruder gives about 600 prisoners on January 1, 350 exclusive of officers on January 2, and 300 or 400 in his February report; his own loss not over 25 killed and 50 wounded on January 2 and 26 killed and 117 wounded in February. Davis thinks not over 20 of his men were wounded and knows of none killed. Davis says Commander Renshaw, four of his chief officers and six of his men died when the Westfield was blown up; Magruder says Captain Wainwright and Lieutenant Lea of the Harriet Lane were killed. These naval deaths are outside Davis's statement about his troops.

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. Prisoner counts may include naval crews; the frozen 600 is not traced.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Major General John B. Magruder, Colonel Isaac S. Burrell and Commander W. B. Renshaw (navy). Magruder led the center assault and fired the signal gun, and credits Leon Smith with the boats and Green with the troops on them. Davis says Burrell sent him to the gunboats to ask for the men to be taken off. Both say Renshaw was killed when the Westfield was blown up.

Command roles from interested reports; Burrell and Renshaw left no inspected report. 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.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field names Companies D, G and I of the 42nd Massachusetts and the blockading ships, and four Confederate gunboats with district troops, without figures; the live field reads 0. Davis says the shore enemy was not less than 3,000 with some twenty guns, and, by their own account, as many on the gunboats. Magruder says he called for 300 volunteers for the boats, gave Cook a storming party of about 500, and had six siege pieces, a railroad-mounted 8-inch gun and fourteen field pieces; he lists the Union vessels and their guns and says the Union land force's strength was unknown to him.

Opponents' estimates and partial Confederate details: Davis's 3,000 is his January 1 estimate of the shore force; Magruder's call for 300 volunteers preceded the attack, and the 500-man storming party and the guns are his January 1 dispositions. No return. None is adopted as a matched opening strength.

supportedunresolved Magruder says the Union land force was at the end of a long wharf under the ships' guns, behind two lines of barricades with portions of the wharf removed, so the storming party had to wade; the water was deep and the ladders too short. Davis says they had barricaded the wharf in two places and the building inside. Magruder says Fort Point was open in the rear.

The wharf position was prepared by the Union troops; tag unresolved. No map verification (Long's map not inspected).