Sewell's Point VA001

supportedunresolved Eagle says he heard blows at 5:30 p.m. on the 19th as timber platforms were being secured inside the embrasures and ordered a shot fired over them. Gwynn says the Monticello apparently did not suspect the operations going forward and that he could not discover what damage the enemy sustained.

Each commander's account of what he observed; no signal or message record inspected.

supportedunresolved Gwynn says no guns were mounted or nearer than Norfolk on the 18th, that he sent three guns and two rifled cannon forward, and that he wanted six hundred laborers. Eagle says he expended 114 shots and desisted only for want of ammunition, with five 8-pound charges left for the pivot gun.

Supply statements from the two commanders' reports; no ordnance returns inspected.

supportedunresolved NPS says the gunboats dueled with the batteries in an attempt to enforce the blockade of Hampton Roads. Gwynn says he hurried the guns to Sewell's Point to expedite the works and afterwards ordered more troops forward to defend the post against further assaults. Eagle says he was satisfied he could have silenced the battery.

Stated aims from a summary and the two reports.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Inconclusive and the live result Indecisive; NPS says the two sides did each other little harm. Gwynn says the Monticello was driven off after an hour and a half and that her retreat showed the fire had become too warm; Eagle says the action lasted one hour and fifteen minutes and that he withdrew only for want of ammunition.

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 10 total; the live field reads zero. Gwynn says no casualty of moment occurred and the battery took no material injury; Eagle reports two men slightly wounded and the ship struck five times by rifled shot.

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. The frozen 10 has no inspected basis.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Brigadier General Walter Gwynn and Captain Peyton Colquitt for the Confederates and Lieutenant D.L. Braine (navy) for the Union; the live page lists Braine and Gwynn. Gwynn says he gave Colquitt command of all forces and guns at the post and returned to Norfolk before the May 19 fire. Eagle signs as commanding the Star [Monticello] and says Braine had charge of the pivot gun.

Roles from the two reports: the listed Union commander appears as the pivot-gun officer under Eagle. No listed commander receives automatic sole credit.

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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 reads 'Two gunboats [US]; battery garrison [CS]'; the live field reads zero. Gwynn says the Monticello carried three guns, one a heavy 10-inch Dahlgren, joined on the 18th by a steam tug with one gun, and that by 5 p.m. on the 19th three 32-pounders and two small rifled guns were in the battery with detachments of infantry and artillery. Eagle says the battery was masked with thirteen embrasures and that the Confederates had three rifled cannon.

Vessel and gun counts, not personnel; the two reports differ on the battery's guns. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Gwynn says the battery was unfinished and not advanced enough on the 18th to receive its armament, and that on the 19th shot passed through the embrasures and struck the merlons. Eagle describes a masked battery behind a sand bank.

Works described by the two opposing reports; no plan inspected. The battery was under construction during the action.