Darbytown & New Market Roads VA077

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No original reconnaissance, order or message chain was inspected to establish contemporary knowledge. Surprise in a summary does not independently establish what each commander knew.

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No battle-specific supply, ammunition or transport return was inspected. Retrospective descriptions are not readiness measures.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Field and Hoke were brought over to drive Kautz from his threatening position; NPS says Lee directed an offensive against the Union far right in response to the loss of Fort Harrison.

Stated aims from an interested history and a summary.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Humphreys says Kautz was routed with the loss of eight guns but Field's attack on the Tenth Corps was repulsed; Lee says the enemy was driven to the New Market road, where he was not dislodged, and that guns, caissons, colors, horses and prisoners were taken.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The rout of the cavalry and the repulse at the main line are both retained.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 1,750 total and the live field 1,158 (US 458; CS 700). Humphreys gives Kautz's loss as eight guns, 72 killed and wounded and 202 missing, and names Gregg killed and Bratton wounded; Lee's dispatch said his loss was small and the enemy's unknown, and his correction gives 10 caissons, 2 colors, about 100 horses and over 100 prisoners (the gun count reads '0' in OCR).

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.

supportedunresolved Lee reports that General Anderson drove the enemy; Humphreys says Field attacked and that the Tenth Corps moved out to Kautz's assistance. Birney's personal direction is not described in the inspected passages. The frozen commanders are Lee (CS), Brigadier General Kautz and Major General Birney (US); the live page lists Kautz and 'Major General Robert Lee'.

Direction attributed as stated; 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. The frozen side-specific numerical strength bounds are blank (missing_numeric_strength). No figure in this pass is adopted as a simultaneous opening force.

supportedunresolved The frozen force field reads 'Corps' and the live field zero. Humphreys gives Kautz 1,700 men and two batteries, attacked by Field and Hoke with the larger part of their divisions, Field advancing with Anderson's and Bratton's brigades and Gary's cavalry, supported by Lane, around the flank.

One Union cavalry figure and Confederate formations. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says a swamp ran around Kautz's right and rear across the Darby road, so that falling back on the narrow road he met Gary's cavalry and lost eight guns, and that Field crossed dense swamps to attack the Tenth Corps; Lee says the enemy was found strongly intrenched on the New Market road.

Mixed claim: the swamps predate the action, but the loss of Kautz's guns arose during it and the Union works on the New Market road were recent, so the claim as a whole is not tagged inherited. No map verification.