Ream's Station VA073

supportedunresolved Humphreys says signal officers reported the Confederate columns moving south at dark on the 24th and that Hancock and Warren were advised the troops were most probably directed against Hancock.

Attributed knowledge from an interested history, written by Meade's chief of staff.

supportedunresolved Humphreys relays Hancock's statement that the return march from Deep Bottom was among the most fatiguing of the campaign, and says Willcox's relief march by the plank road was twelve miles against about five by the railroad.

Movement statements from an interested history; no transport return inspected.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says the aim was to destroy the Weldon Railroad as far as Rowanty Creek to force a thirty-mile wagon haul, and that the railroad was too important to the Confederates to lose without an attempt to prevent it.

Stated aims from an interested history.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Lee says the second assault carried the entire line; Humphreys says the troops were withdrawn after dark to protect the only communication and that the enemy did not follow up.

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 3,492 total and the live field 3,556 (US 2,742; CS 814). Humphreys gives Hancock's loss as 610 killed and wounded and 1,762 missing (2,372) with nine guns lost, and Hill's report of 720 lost and 12 colors, 9 guns, 2,150 prisoners and 3,100 small arms taken; Lee's dispatch gives seven colors, 2,000 prisoners and 9 guns.

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. Hill's and Lee's prisoner and colors counts differ.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Hancock judged himself too closely engaged to withdraw by day, that Meade's routing of Willcox by the plank road kept him from the field, that Gibbon's division responded feebly to Hancock's order to retake the lost position and guns, and that Hancock credited Miles and blamed his troops' fatigue and losses; Lee credits A. P. Hill's assault, Heth's brigades and Hampton's cavalry. The frozen commanders are Major General Heth (CS) and Major General Hancock (US); the live page matches.

Direction and blame attributed as stated. 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 'Corps' and the live field zero. Humphreys says signal officers estimated 8,000 or 10,000 infantry passing south, lists Hill's brigades from Wilcox's, Heth's, Mahone's and Field's divisions with Hampton's two cavalry divisions, and says Hancock held the works with Gibbon's and Miles's divisions while Mott was ordered to send about 1,800 men.

A signal-officer estimate of a column and formation lists; no return for either side. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Humphreys says the Reams's Station works were slight, thrown up for Wilson's relief in June, and that their returns at right angles to the railroad exposed the troops in them to reverse artillery fire.

The works predate the engagement. No map verification.