Port Walthall Junction VA047

supportedunresolved Humphreys says the Union corps were concentrated at Yorktown and Gloucester to give the impression of an advance on the 1862 line. Hagood says prisoners led his side to suppose the May 6 attackers were Heckman's brigade, and that enemy newspaper correspondents later put Brooks with five brigades in his front on May 7.

Attributed knowledge from an interested history and report; identification by prisoners and later newspapers is not contemporary command knowledge of strength.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Beauregard's leading troops had only begun to arrive at Petersburg by the Weldon Railroad on May 5, and that Kautz's destruction of the Stony Creek and Nottoway bridges caused some delay in the transportation of Beauregard's troops. Hagood says the two guns sent to him ran out of ammunition twice after very few discharges and went half a mile to the rear to replenish.

Movement statements and one commander's remark on artillery ammunition; no transport or ordnance return inspected.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Grant instructed Butler that Richmond was his objective point, and that Pickett sent Hagood's troops to Port Walthall Junction to protect the Richmond railroad from Butler's force; NPS says the landing threatened the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad.

Stated aims from an interested history and a summary.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory, and both descriptions say a Union division drove Hagood's and Johnson's brigades from the depot and cut the railroad on May 7. Humphreys says the May 6 brigade returned after meeting some force and that the May 7 force encountered the enemy without any important result either way. Hagood says the enemy withdrew from the field before dark on May 7 and that his force was withdrawn to Swift Creek that night.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The summaries and the Confederate report characterize May 7 differently; not reconciled.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 550 total; the live field reads zero. Hagood gives his loss on May 7 as 177 and estimates the enemy's at 1,000; his printed casualty return is garbled in OCR and was not selected.

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. Hagood's figures cover his command on May 7 only; the enemy estimate is his.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says a brigade was sent out to the railroad and pike on May 6 (the passage does not name who sent it) and that on May 7 General Butler sent some force from his two corps, and that Hagood's troops had been halted at the junction by Pickett, still in command at Petersburg. Hagood says Graham commanded on May 6 and that on May 7 he reported to Bushrod Johnson, who ranked him; Johnson withdrew the force to Swift Creek that night. The frozen commanders are Major General Butler (US) and Brigadier General Hagood (CS); the live page matches.

Direction attributed as the sources state; Johnson and Pickett are not listed commanders. No listed commander receives 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 reads only 'Divisions'; the frozen description gives Butler's army 33,000 strong on landing, and the live force field reads 39,000 for the Union and zero for the Confederates. Humphreys gives the Army of the James 1,329 officers and 30,543 enlisted men of infantry and 82 guns (built from corps figures he gives as present for duty), and Kautz's cavalry as 97 officers and 2,804 enlisted men, and says Beauregard's arriving brigades gave an effective infantry force (enlisted men present for duty) of 19,000. Hagood reports an aggregate of 1,500 men (OCR 'ihadanaggre eate of 1 500') engaged on May 7 against at least two brigades, and Bushrod Johnson at the junction with some 800 muskets.

Army-wide returns, a reconstruction of Confederate reinforcements not yet arrived, and one brigade commander's engaged count for May 7 only; the scopes and dates differ. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Hagood says Graham's detachment on May 6 held a well-chosen position in a sunken road with its left on a ravine and its right on a wood, and that on May 7 his men, sheltered by the railroad embankment, drove back the enemy's massed attack. Humphreys places the Union intrenched line across a narrow part of Bermuda Hundred Neck, about two and a half miles from the railroad and pike.

The road, ravine and embankment predate the engagement; the choice to use them is not tagged. No map verification.