Fort Stedman VA084

supportedunresolved Humphreys relays Parke that the attackers took picket posts by exploiting the order letting deserters bring their arms, says Gordon's guides were lost or deserted, that Gordon misunderstood the rear works, and that the telegraph to Meade at City Point was cut.

Attributed knowledge from a history relaying both commanders.

supportedunresolved Humphreys quotes Gordon that troops sent from Longstreet's corps were delayed by the breaking down of trains, so daylight found the plan half executed.

A commander's statement relayed by a history; no transport return inspected.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Lee proposed the sortie to gain works and the ridge near the Appomattox so that Grant would draw in his left, postponing the abandonment of Richmond and Petersburg; NPS says the attack aimed to threaten the supply depot at City Point.

Stated aims from a history and a summary.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Humphreys says Hartranft retook Fort Stedman with small loss and that the Second and Sixth Corps took the Confederate picket lines; Lee says two efforts to recover the works were repulsed before his troops withdrew, and that at dark the enemy held much of the advanced line.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The picket-line captures are retained as context for April 2, a later record. Humphreys commanded the Second Corps on March 25 and narrates its picket-line attack in the first person; his account of that attack and of the Second Corps' losses and prisoners is a participant's account.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 3,850 (US 950; CS 2,900) and the live field 3,698 (US 1,017; CS 2,681). Humphreys gives Parke's 1,949 prisoners and loss of 494 killed and wounded and 523 missing (1,017), the Second Corps' 690 and 358 prisoners, the Sixth Corps' about 400 and 547 prisoners, and his estimate of nearly 4,000 Confederate and about 2,000 Union losses for the day; Lee reports 9 guns, 8 mortars and between 500 and 600 prisoners taken and his loss not heavy. The frozen description says the counterattacks captured more than 1,900 of the attackers; Parke's 1,949 is set beside it, not reconciled.

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. Parke's 1,017 matches the live Union figure, not the frozen 950; Humphreys' day totals include the picket-line fighting. Humphreys commanded the Second Corps on March 25 and narrates its picket-line attack in the first person; his account of that attack and of the Second Corps' losses and prisoners is a participant's account.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Gordon was selected for the attack, that Parke, in command as senior in Meade's absence, ordered Willcox to retake the works and assigned Hartranft to retake Fort Stedman; Lee reports that Gordon carried the works but the rear works could be taken only at great sacrifice and the troops were withdrawn. The frozen commanders are Lee and Gordon (CS) and Parke (US); the live page lists Parke and 'Major General Robert Lee'.

Direction attributed as stated; the live rank is not adopted. 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.

supportedunresolved The frozen force field reads 'Corps' and the live field zero; the frozen description says Lee amassed nearly half his army. Humphreys relays Gordon's statement that Lee gave him his own corps, parts of Hill's and Longstreet's and some cavalry, about one-half of the army, gives the Ninth Corps a seven-mile line, and gives the latest spring returns as not less than 46,000 effective Confederate infantry and 69,000 for the Army of the Potomac.

A proportion, a line length and army-wide returns dated to late March; no count of the assaulting or defending force. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says the lines at Fort Stedman were only 150 yards apart and the pickets 50, that the rear forts the Confederate plan relied on did not exist, and, citing Parke, that the darkness prevented friends from being told from foes; Lee says the captured guns could not be brought off owing to the nature of the ground.

Mixed claim: the lines and the absence of rear forts predate the assault, but the darkness at the hour chosen for the attack and the guns that could not be brought off concern the action itself, so the claim as a whole is not tagged inherited. No map verification.