Chancellorsville VA032

supportedunresolved Doubleday prints Hooker's 9.30 a.m. May 2 order warning Slocum and Howard that the enemy might strike their flank and that the right was weak, and says no precautions were taken against it. Lee says Jackson's march was covered by Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry under Stuart in person and that the enemy were taken by surprise.

Attributed orders and judgments from an interested history and the opposing commander; no inspected message log. Doubleday's view that only Howard's 'utter want of appreciation of the gravity of the situation' prevented a strong line of defence is his judgment. The CWSAC/NPS description says Jackson marched against the Federal left flank and calls him Lt. Gen., against the frozen commander row's Major General; this conflicts with Lee's and Doubleday's 'right' and is retained, not adopted.

supportedunresolved Doubleday says a sudden rise in the river made the bridges too short until one was taken down to piece out the others, and that 37,000 men were kept out of the May 3 fight. Lee says the ground was unfavorable for artillery.

Movement and employment statements from an interested history and the opposing commander's report; no inspected return.

supportedunresolved NPS says Hooker meant to turn the Confederate left by crossing above Fredericksburg while Sedgwick demonstrated. Lee says a direct attack would be costly, so he resolved to turn Hooker's right with Jackson while a force held the front.

Stated plans from a summary and the Confederate commander's report; no inspected orders.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. NPS says Hooker recrossed on the night of May 5–6; Lee says the enemy retreated over the river under cover of storm and darkness; Doubleday says the army retired without being followed; Hooker left his killed and wounded behind and had lost 14 guns and 20,000 stand of arms.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. NPS's 'Lee's greatest victory' is a historians' judgment and campaign context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 24,000 total (US 14,000; CS 10,000); the live field reads zero. Doubleday's table of losses, which he gives as an extract from the official reports, adding that 'it is said' the Confederate statement is far from accurate, totals 17,197 Union (Sixth Corps 4,601) and 13,019 Confederate for the whole campaign.

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. Doubleday's table includes Sedgwick's and Early's actions (VA033, VA034) and must not be assigned to this engagement or added to theirs; its OCR layout is garbled. In OCR, the Confederate row totals sum to 13,029: Artillery and Cavalry show 227 killed and wounded, no missing figure, and a 237 total. The printed total is 13,019 (10,266 + 2,753). Two Confederate missing entries carry '?' marks. Early's division shows 851 killed and wounded, against 974 in Early's own report (VA034). Neither figure is reconciled or checked against print.

supportedunresolved Doubleday says Hooker ordered the May 1 withdrawal, refused Couch's request to remain, then countermanded too late; that on May 3 Hooker was prostrated and severely injured, was manifestly unfit to give orders, though he soon resumed command; and that Hooker ordered the recrossing although the majority of council votes were against it, while adding that Meade's and Howard's votes were qualified so as to give the impression they favored retreat. Lee says the turning movement that decided the day was conducted by Jackson, who was fired upon by his own skirmishers, and credits Stuart, who took his command. The frozen Union commander is Hooker; the frozen Confederate commanders are Lee, as General, and Jackson, as Major General, whom Lee's report calls Lieutenant-General; the live heading ranks Lee Major General.

Judgments are attributed to Doubleday and Lee; the frozen commanders do not receive automatic sole credit. The heading rank and the frozen Jackson rank are not adopted. Lee's 'fortune of the day decided' and Doubleday's criticisms are attributed judgments, not causal effects.

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No inspected return establishes matched personnel at a common opening boundary. The frozen structured bounds (US 97,382; CS 57,352) are imported source-reported forces-engaged figures and remain unchanged; this pass does not validate them as simultaneous opening forces for this engagement, whose interval also contains VA033 and VA034.

disputedunresolved The frozen force text reads 154,734 total (US 97,382; CS 57,352), with matching structured bounds; the live field reads zero. Doubleday gives Hooker about 124,500 of all arms, doubts he had over 113,000 for combat, and relays Forbes's 114,500 effective and 62,000 for Lee; he says Lee's army numbered about 62,000 by Confederate official reports. Lee writes of the enemy's superiority of numbers.

Rolls, effective estimates and relayed figures differ in scope and source; none is adopted as matched opening strength. Live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Lee says the Union position near Chancellorsville was of great natural strength in dense forest, with log breastworks and felled-tree abatis, and later that Hooker withdrew to a previously fortified position nearer the river. Doubleday says dense thickets broke up every organization that tried to pass them, while the Confederates knew the country and had an entrenched line at Tabernacle Church.

Natural ground and works built during the interval are combined; boundaries unset and no map verification or numerical terrain effect.