White Oak Road VA087

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Ayres was told at 8 a.m. of Pickett at Five Forks and cautioned against a flank attack, and that Warren reported at 9.40 that Confederate pickets covered the White Oak road; Johnson says he found the enemy in two lines about 11 a.m. and had ascertained that a movement on the Union left flank was possible.

Attributed knowledge in a history and an interested report.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says the rain fell heavily through the night of the 29th and all of the 30th, making the roads impassable for artillery and wagons until corduroyed, and that on the morning of the 31st corps commanders were told there would be no movement because of the roads; Johnson says his troops became exhausted and no reinforcements were available.

Weather and movement statements; no supply or ammunition return inspected.

supportedunresolved Humphreys says Warren proposed to occupy the White Oak road to cut Lee's direct communication with Pickett and Meade allowed it if the road could be taken and held, while Lee planned to attack the Fifth Corps' left flank that morning.

Stated aims from an interested history.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen result reads 'Union gained ground' and the live result 'Union Victory'. Humphreys says Hunton was driven into the White Oak road works and McGowan fell back into the main works; Johnson says his command drove the enemy about a mile and a half by 2 p.m. but was drawn into the main breastworks at about 5 p.m.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The frozen and live result categories are not reconciled.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 2,670 (US 1,870; CS 800) and the live field 3,016 (US 1,781; CS 1,235). Humphreys gives Warren's 936 killed and wounded and 470 missing (1,406), 374 killed and wounded in the Second Corps and more than 300 prisoners taken by Miles; Johnson gives the enemy's loss as including about 470 prisoners and his own as about 800, and the note after his report gives 187 for the White Oak road.

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. Johnson's 800 equals the frozen Confederate figure and his 470 prisoners Warren's 470 missing; these are observations, not established sources for either figure. The note's unit is garbled in OCR ('Muse' in its first entry) and its population is unclear; its 187 is not compared with or added to Johnson's 800.

disputedunresolved Humphreys says Lee was on the ground directing the movement, relays Hunton that he had no orders to attack and McGowan that he ordered the charge when the firing began, and says he himself ordered Miles to attack the Confederate left flank; Johnson says he ordered his command forward to meet the Union attack, and that Anderson later ordered it withdrawn. NPS credits the counterattack to Johnson. The frozen commanders are Lee and Anderson (CS) and Warren (US); the live page lists Warren and 'Major General Robert Lee'. The NPS description places 'Maj. Gen. W.H. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry divisions' at Five Forks; Humphreys names the cavalry divisions of the two Lees.

Accounts of who started the Confederate attack differ and are attributed, not reconciled; Humphreys' order to Miles is his own participant account. Anderson's own direction is described only in Johnson's report; the live rank is not adopted. 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. 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 names Ayres's, Crawford's and Griffin's divisions of the Fifth Corps and Miles's division of the Second against McGowan's, Gracie's (Sanford's), Hunton's and Wise's brigades, and quotes Ayres that Winthrop turned back on seeing a much superior force; Johnson says his line was McGowan's, Moody's (Stansel's) and Hunton's brigades, with Wise's moved out on the left by Lee's order.

Formation lists and one attributed impression; no headcount for either side on March 31. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Humphreys places Ayres in open ground south of the road, says a branch of Gravelly Run had become swollen and hard to cross, and describes the Confederate works on the crest of a long slope with wide slashings, abatis and artillery, 'unused and in good order', whose slashing stopped Hays at the Crow house; Johnson says the Union line re-formed on vantage ground west of a branch of Gravelly Run.

The works and slashings predate the day; the swollen stream follows the night's rain, and the rifle-pits Johnson later held were thrown up by Union skirmishers the night before. Mixed; not tagged inherited as a whole. No map verification.