Sailor's Creek VA093

supportedunresolved Ewell says Fitz Lee told him a large cavalry force held the road ahead of Anderson and Anderson told him at least two divisions were in his front, and that he left the dispositions to Anderson because Anderson knew the ground; Humphreys says he did not know Anderson's command was across the road beyond Ewell.

Attributed knowledge from an interested report and a participant's history.

supportedunresolved Ewell says he had no artillery, all of it being with the train, and that his men had marched four days and nights, the last two with nothing to eat; Humphreys says Wright's artillery drew no reply because neither Ewell nor Anderson had artillery, and that Ewell's whole force and much of Anderson's and Gordon's were lost in trying to save the trains.

Readiness statements from an interested report and a history; no return inspected.

supportedunresolved Ewell says he held his troops to cover the passage of the trains and that Anderson proposed either breaking through together or moving right through the woods toward a road to Farmville; Humphreys says Gordon took the right-hand fork covering the main trains.

Stated aims from an interested report and a history.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. Ewell says Anderson's assault was repulsed in five minutes and that his whole command was captured; Humphreys says all of Ewell's command was killed, wounded or captured except 250 of Kershaw's division, and that Gordon fell back from the high ground beyond the creek at Perkinson's mill.

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 9,980 total and the live field 8,848 (US 1,148; CS 7,700). Humphreys estimates Ewell's loss at about 3,400 and Anderson's at about 2,600 (about 6,000), the total loss of Gordon's corps in its running contest with the Second Corps at not less than 2,000, the day's total Confederate loss at not less than 8,000, the Second Corps' captures at 13 flags, 4 guns and 1,700 prisoners, its own killed and wounded at 311 (First and Second divisions) and the Sixth Corps' at 442, and gives no cavalry figure. Ewell says 2,800 of his men were taken prisoner and about 150 killed and wounded.

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. Humphreys' components are his estimates from mixed sources; he gives 3 guns at the Perkinson's mill stand and 4 in the corps' captures. His 6,000 for Ewell and Anderson and 2,000 for Gordon fall within his not less than 8,000 and are not added to it.

supportedunresolved Ewell says Anderson undertook to attack in front while he held the rear, and that after capture he sent word to Custis Lee but gave no orders as a prisoner; Humphreys says Sheridan ordered Crook and Merritt to attack once Wright's artillery was in position, and that he himself continued the pursuit of Gordon's corps. The frozen commanders are Ewell and Gordon (CS) and Sheridan (US); the live page lists Sheridan and Ewell.

Direction attributed as stated; Humphreys' pursuit of Gordon is his own participant account, and Wright and Anderson are not frozen commanders. 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.

disputedunresolved The frozen force field reads 'Corps' and the live field zero. Humphreys gives Ewell about 3,600 and Anderson about 6,300 on the ground (about 10,000), built from Kershaw's 2,000, Custis Lee's about 1,000 (from Howard's paper), Johnson's division of about 3,800 and Pickett's of about 2,500, and relays Ewell's 'only about 3.000'. Ewell says his two divisions numbered about 3,000 each at the evacuation, lost over 3,000 to fatigue on the march, and was told at Wright's headquarters that 30,000 men were engaged against them.

Humphreys' figures are his reconstruction from mixed sources; Ewell's are strengths at the April 2 evacuation and a reported Union figure. Gordon's corps is not counted in either. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Humphreys describes the high ground at Hott's fork sloping in clear ground to Sailor's Creek and Ewell's line on a crest behind a thicket of young pines; Ewell says his men were posted behind rising ground that gave some shelter from artillery, with the creek about 300 yards in front, brush pines between and a cleared field beyond.

The ground predates the action; Anderson's temporary breastworks are not included. No map verification.