Staunton River Bridge VA113

supportedunresolved Lee reports that the bridge commander, Captain Farinholt, telegraphed on the 25th his confidence of being able to protect it; Wilson says careful inquiry showed no means of crossing without letting the enemy on the north bank cross too.

Attributed knowledge in dispatches and a report; not proof of what either commander knew at the time of the attack.

supportedunresolved Wilson says the troops carried five days' light rations and about 100 rounds of ammunition in wagons, that the implements for destroying railroad had not arrived when the expedition started, and that many of Kautz's men fainted from exhaustion, thirst and heat before the bridge.

Statements from the raid commander; no supply return inspected.

supportedunresolved Wilson says the High Bridge and the Roanoke (Staunton River) bridge were especially to be aimed at, and that Kautz attacked hoping to reach the northern end long enough to burn it.

Stated aims from the raid commander.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. Lee relays W. H. F. Lee's statement that the enemy was signally repulsed at the bridge and retreated; Wilson says Kautz had to give up the attempt, and that the expedition's objects had in the main been accomplished.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. Wilson's claim concerns the raid as a whole, not this record.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 150 total; the live field reads zero. Lee relays W. H. F. Lee's report of about thirty enemy dead left on the field; Wilson gives about 900 killed, wounded and missing for the whole expedition.

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. Wilson's figure is raid-wide and is not assigned to this record.

supportedunresolved Wilson says he directed Kautz to dismount and push to the bridge, then determined to withdraw eastward; Lee reports W. H. F. Lee's attack on the raiders' rear near the bridge. The frozen commanders are Major General W. H. F. Lee (CS) and Brigadier Generals Wilson and Kautz (US); the live page lists Wilson and 'Major General William Lee'.

Direction attributed as stated. 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.

disputedunresolved The frozen force text reads 'Divisions (4,000 total)' and the live field zero. Wilson's February 1865 report says the expedition set out with about 5,500 cavalry and twelve guns and found the bridge defended by 500 or 600 men and a battery of six guns; his July 3, 1864 report says the militia of eight counties and a small force from Danville.

Wilson's 5,500 is the raid's starting strength on June 22 and his defender figure an estimate; the frozen 4,000 is undivided. None is adopted as a matched opening strength; live zeros are not measured absence.

supportedinherited Wilson says the approach to the bridge lay through a bottom field of growing grain under guns in works with four lines of rifle-trench, that the Staunton was too deep to ford, and that the site's topography made his position dangerous.

The river and the defenders' works predate the raiders' arrival. No map verification.