Suffolk VA031

supportedunresolved Peck says he learned from a captured mail on April 10 that Longstreet would attack, and that on May 3 the Confederate picket line kept deserters from bringing word of the retreat until it had several hours' start. French says the Hill's Point garrison was negligent if surprised and, if not, offered insufficient resistance; Longstreet's indorsement says the command at the fort seems to have been completely surprised.

Attributed knowledge from opposing reports; French's judgment is conditional on surprise; only Longstreet's indorsement judges the command surprised. No inspected message log.

supportedunresolved Peck says Admiral Lee ordered all boats out of the Upper Nansemond on the 18th, leaving the river's defense to the land forces, and suspended the order at Peck's representation; the Battery Huger assault force crossed on the Stepping Stones. NPS says the capture reopened the river to Union shipping.

Army-navy coordination from one interested report and a summary; no inspected naval record.

supportedunresolved Peck attributes to the siege the objects of recovering the country south of the James to Albemarle Sound, the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth, railroad iron and the Union forces, and mocks it as a so-styled foraging expedition; he says his command held the enemy at Suffolk so that Hooker might win. NPS says Lee directed Longstreet on April 29 to disengage and rejoin the Army of Northern Virginia.

Peck's statement of Confederate objects is an opponent's attribution, not Confederate evidence; no Confederate orders were inspected.

disputedunresolved NPS says Corcoran's April 24 reconnaissance approached cautiously and was easily repulsed. Peck says the enemy was driven in confusion back upon his main line, and that the object was attained and the command withdrawn.

The accounts conflict on the result of the April 24 action; neither is adopted.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen result reads Inconclusive and the live result Indecisive. NPS says a Union force landed on Hill's Point on April 19 and captured the Fort Huger garrison; Peck reports the capture of five pieces of artillery and 120 soldiers (officer count OCR '0') in a paragraph whose OCR date reads '10th', between entries for the 18th and 20th. Peck says the Confederates began retiring about 9 p.m. on May 3; NPS says the last had crossed the Blackwater by May 4.

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 152 total (1,160 for entire siege); the live NPS field reads zero. Peck gives his own siege loss as 44 killed, 202 wounded and 14 missing, 260 in all, which the compiler footnotes against a revised statement on p.288. He estimates the Confederate loss at not less than 1,500: about 400 prisoners, probably 500 or 600 killed and wounded, and 500 deserters.

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. Peck's figures, like the frozen 1,160, cover the whole siege; the frozen 152 has no stated scope. VA030's frozen text shares the siege total; do not add them.

supportedunresolved Peck says Getty and Lieutenant Lamson carried out the Battery Huger plan and that Lamson suggested it. French says he was ill on Sunday the 19th and that the river as far as the West Branch was guarded by Hood's troops. Longstreet's indorsement says he does not know that any officer deserves particular censure, and judges the work could have been retaken with the loss of 75 men. The frozen and live ranks give Peck Brigadier General, while his report is signed Major-General; the live heading ranks Longstreet Major General against the frozen Lieutenant General.

Divided army-navy and Confederate division responsibilities from opposing reports; Longstreet's 75-man estimate is a counterfactual judgment and is not adopted. The frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit, and neither heading nor signature rank is adopted.

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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); the frozen battle-level 45,000 total is shared by VA030 and VA031 and its scope is not stated. No figure in this pass is adopted as a simultaneous opening force.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field reads Divisions (45,000 total), with a frozen strength of 45000, shared with VA030; the live field reads zero. Peck says a captured mail reported that Longstreet would attack with 40,000 to 60,000, that Longstreet, finding an assault on works defended by one-half his own force expensive and uncertain, decided to besiege the place, and that probably not less than two divisions joined him from Hill. French says the Hill's Point work was defended by two companies of infantry.

Siege-level, rumored and local figures differ in scope and source; none is adopted as matched opening strength. Live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Peck says he was ordered to Suffolk on September 22 (OCR year '1802'), found no artificial defenses, began Fort Dix on the 25th, and from that time until his May 5 report worked to place the line of the river and swamp in a state of defense.

Only Union works existing before the frozen April 11 start are tagged inherited; they may be commander-created under a campaign boundary. Peck says the work continued until the present, so works added during the siege are not separable here and are not covered by this tag. No map verification or numerical effect.

supportedunresolved Peck describes the Confederate siege works as not less than 10 miles of batteries, covered ways and rifle-pits.

An opposing commander's post-siege description of works built within the engagement interval; not inherited. No map verification or numerical effect.

supportedunresolved French says the Hill's Point battery was placed in a work built for the defense of the river when the Confederates held Suffolk. NPS says the Union force assaulted Fort Huger from the rear.

French does not name Hill's Point in the sentence on the work's origin; the identification is inferred from the report's sequence in garbled OCR. Origin of the work from one report; NPS VA030 says a battery was constructed on Hill's Point on April 13. Whether these describe the same work is not established.