Dinwiddie Court House VA086

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Sheridan reported Pickett's arrival to Grant on March 30, that the telegraph between headquarters was evidently working badly, and that Bartlett's brigade on Gravelly Run became known to Pickett about ten at night and, by Fitzhugh Lee's account, was taken for the Fifth Corps' advance; Fitzhugh Lee says they learned in the night that the Fifth Corps had about-faced and was marching to Sheridan's support.

Attributed knowledge from a history and an interested report; not a message log.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says the Boydton road bridge over Gravelly Run had been destroyed on the 29th, the stream was swollen and unfordable for infantry, and a forty-foot span had to be built before Warren's reinforcements could reach Sheridan.

Movement conditions for the relief of Sheridan from an interested history; no return inspected.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Pickett, with W. H. F. Lee's and Rosser's cavalry leading, intended to cross Chamberlain's Bed and attack Sheridan's left flank while Munford attacked his front, as part of Lee's plan to defeat the move against the South Side Railroad; Fitzhugh Lee says he had been sent to watch and counteract the massing of Sheridan's cavalry at the Court House.

Stated aims from a history and an interested report.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory; NPS says the Confederates drove the Union vanguard back, temporarily stalling Sheridan, and that Pickett withdrew before daybreak to Five Forks. Fitzhugh Lee says they drove the Union cavalry to within half a mile of the Court House and began moving back to Five Forks at daylight; Humphreys says the Gibbs-Gregg attack forced Pickett to face about and meet Sheridan's line in front of the Court House in a contest that lasted until night.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Pickett's withdrawal on the morning of April 1 belongs to the interval before VA088.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 821 total and the live field 1,114 (US 354; CS 760). Fitzhugh Lee says they captured over 100 prisoners and lost W. H. F. Lee's and Rosser's men at the crossing; Humphreys says W. H. F. Lee's first crossing was driven back with heavy loss and gives no totals for the day.

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 Humphreys says Pickett assumed command of the operation against Sheridan and that Sheridan, when Pickett exposed his rear in following Devin and Davies, ordered Gibbs and Gregg to attack him and brought up two of Custer's brigades; he judges that Warren should have moved with Griffin and Crawford soon after 10.50 p.m. Fitzhugh Lee says he took command of the Cavalry Corps by the commanding general's order. The frozen commanders are Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee (CS) and Sheridan (US); the live page lists Sheridan and Pickett. The NPS description has 'Maj. Gen. W.H. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry' and Pickett's infantry drive back the Union vanguard; Humphreys names the cavalry divisions of the two Lees.

Direction and criticism attributed as stated. Warren's night movement bears on VA088 as well; it is not scored here. The NPS name form does not distinguish the two Lees and is not used for attribution. 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 force text reads 65,277 (US 45,247; CS 20,030) and the live field zero. Humphreys gives, from the February 20 return, 5,760 enlisted men in the two Lees' cavalry divisions (including Roberts's brigade) and about 3,600 of Pickett's and 3,000 of Johnson's infantry (6,600) for the five brigades at Five Forks, and the present for duty of Sheridan's enlisted cavalry as 13,000; Fitzhugh Lee says Pickett came up with five small brigades of infantry.

The frozen figures state no date or population. Humphreys' Confederate figures are February 20 return strengths assigned to the formations present, not counts on March 31; the Union cavalry figure is a campaign-opening present-for-duty total. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Humphreys says the ground of most of the day's fighting was very heavy and largely densely wooded, and places Fitzgerald's crossing of Chamberlain's Bed two and a half miles by road from the Court House; Fitzhugh Lee says his flanking column moved by a concealed wooded road and that a strongly defended stream crossing was an unexpected obstacle.

The woods and the stream predate the engagement; the crossing's defence did not. No map verification.