Petersburg VA063

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Hancock learned only from Grant's and Smith's messages that Petersburg was to be attacked on June 15, that Lee, not satisfied Richmond was not the objective, would not release Hill and Anderson, and that Lee telegraphed at 3 p.m. on June 16 that he had not heard of Grant's crossing. Meade says that by June 18 he was satisfied Lee's army was before him.

Attributed knowledge from an interested history and report; the telegrams themselves are not separately inspected.

supportedunresolved Meade says the James River bridge, over 2,000 feet long, was completed by midnight on June 14 and that Hancock was authorized to wait for subsistence stores from Bermuda Hundred in the absence of the supply trains; Humphreys says the rations did not arrive and the Second Corps marched without them at half-past ten on June 15.

Movement and supply statements from interested accounts; no transport return inspected.

supportedunresolved Meade says Grant instructed him on June 16 to take command before Petersburg and, if practicable, push the enemy across the Appomattox; Humphreys offers his own reconstruction of Grant's plan while saying he has no positive information on it.

Stated aims from an interested report and a history's conjecture.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Humphreys says a mile and a half of intrenchments with sixteen guns were taken on June 15 and that the positions gained on June 18 remained substantially the lines to the war's end; Meade says the June 18 assaults failed and offensive operations then ceased.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Ground gained and the failure to take the city are both retained; the siege that followed is context.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 11,386 (US 8,150; CS 3,236) and the live field 7,674 (US 2,974; CS 4,700). Humphreys derives 8,150 Union killed and wounded from the Medical Director's 6,210 wounded, an estimated 1,240 killed and probably 700 for the Eighteenth Corps; with 1,814 missing that gives 9,964, against the Tabular Statement's 10,586. He found no official statement of Confederate losses; Hinks reported 507 killed and wounded in his division.

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. Humphreys' 8,150 is his estimate with an assumed proportion of killed and matches the frozen Union figure; the frozen and live Confederate figures differ.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Smith, having heard Lee's army was crossing, held what he had on June 15 rather than advance; that an immediate advance would probably have taken Petersburg; that he could not learn why Hancock was not ordered to march at daylight; that Beauregard decided to strip his Bermuda Hundred lines; that Meade fixed the hour of the June 18 attacks himself; and that Grant said all had been done that could be done. Meade says he ordered the June 16 assault by Hancock and Burnside. The frozen commanders are Grant and Meade (US) and Lee and Beauregard (CS); the live page lists Grant and 'Major General Robert Lee'.

Direction and criticism are attributed as the sources give them; Humphreys' counterfactual is his judgment. The live rank is not adopted. No listed commander receives automatic sole credit.

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No inspected return establishes matched personnel at a common opening boundary. Imported numerical estimates remain unchanged; this pass does not validate them as simultaneous opening forces.

disputedunresolved The frozen and live force fields read 104,000 (US 62,000; CS 42,000); the frozen description gives 5,400 defenders on June 15. Humphreys gives Smith 10,000 infantry with Kautz's 2,400 cavalry and 3,700 of Hinks's division; the defenders as Wise's brigade, 2,400 strong, the militia and Dearing's cavalry; the Second Corps as 20,000 enlisted men; Johnson's division as 3,500 without Gracie's brigade of about 1,000; and Beauregard's infantry early on June 16 as probably about 14,000, reinforced by Kershaw and Field on the 18th and later Hill.

The frozen totals do not state their date or population; Humphreys' figures are for different days and formations, several his own estimates. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Humphreys describes the Petersburg intrenchments as strong redans connected by high-profile parapets with ditches, the ground before Martindale as a low valley cut by ditches and ravines swept by artillery, and Potter's approach through a ravine covered with slashed timber; he adds that the maps in use were erroneous and misleading.

The original works predate the engagement and are tagged inherited; the new lines of June 16-18 were built during it. No map verification.