Rich Mountain WV003

supportedunresolved Pegram says Rosecrans was guided up a distant ridge by a man and that his own woodsmen had said such a movement was impossible. Nicolay quotes Garnett that country people kept the Union forces fully advised, and says McClellan's messenger to Rosecrans was captured, so McClellan waited all day and learned of the fight only the next day.

Attributed knowledge from an interested report and a history.

supportedunresolved Pegram says three-fourths of his command had no rations left and the rest not flour for one meal when he decided to leave camp, that he had urgently asked the chief commissary for three days' rations that morning, and that he surrendered because of the famished condition of his men. Nicolay quotes Garnett that the troops at Huttonsville were in miserable condition as to arms, clothing and equipment.

Supply statements from an interested report and a quoted letter; no commissary return inspected.

supportedunresolved Nicolay says McClellan moved to turn the position on Rich Mountain and permitted Rosecrans's plan to reach the turnpike in Pegram's rear, while waiting to assault the front when the rear attack began. Pegram says he ordered De Lagnel to defend Hart's to the last extremity.

Stated aims from a history and a report.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Union victory. NPS says a sharp two-hour fight split the Confederates, half escaping to Beverly while Pegram and the rest surrendered on July 13; Pegram says his detachment held for three hours against ten times its number; Nicolay says the Union numbers quickly decided the contest and that Pegram surrendered 560 men and thirty-three officers.

Retain the original result and engagement interval; later movements and campaign contribution are different measures. No new probabilities or individual causal credit. The duration differs (two hours against three); the July 13 surrender is a sequel, not a separate engagement record.

disputedpost_outcome The frozen casualty text reads 346 (US 46; CS 300); the live field reads 162 (US 74; CS 88). Nicolay quotes Rosecrans: twenty-one prisoners and two guns taken and a loss of twelve killed and forty-nine wounded; in paraphrase he says Rosecrans places the reported Confederate burials at 135, with about twenty wounded. Pegram gives his own loss as two officers and 40-45 men killed and about twenty men and four officers wounded, De Lagnel missing, and the enemy's at least thirty killed and forty wounded. His surrendered force was twenty-two officers and 359 men of Heck's regiment and eight officers and 166 men of his own.

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. The July 13 surrender counts are a later population and are not added to battle casualties. Nicolay's 560 men and thirty-three officers and Pegram's itemized 525 men (359 and 166) and thirty officers (twenty-two and eight) differ and are not reconciled.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Lieutenant Colonel John Pegram and Brigadier General Robert S. Garnett for the Confederates and Major General George B. McClellan and Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans for the Union; the live page lists McClellan and Pegram. Nicolay says Rosecrans proposed the turning plan and McClellan permitted it, reportedly with some reluctance; Pegram placed De Lagnel at Hart's, led reinforcements himself, and called councils of war before the escape and the surrender. Garnett held Laurel Hill, some seventeen miles north, and no inspected passage places him at Rich Mountain.

Command roles from a history and an interested report. The four listed commanders do not receive automatic credit; Garnett's listing reflects the wider operation.

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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 Brigades; the live field reads zero. Nicolay gives Pegram a regiment and six guns in the pass, Garnett three or four regiments at Laurel Hill, McClellan some seven regiments, Rosecrans's turning column portions of four regiments or 1,900 men, and Pegram's detachment at Hart's 310 men and two guns. Pegram says the detachment was about 310 men with one piece, attacked by 3,000; in his addendum his whole force was about 1,300, not more than 350 engaged, against nearly 10,000 in all and 3,000 at Hart's.

Figures differ in population and between the history and the report (1,900 against 3,000; one gun against two). None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence.

supportedunresolved Pegram says the fight was around Hart's house at the highest point of the turnpike, two miles behind his main trenches at the foot of the western slope, and that the intricacy of the country seemed hardly to call for a force there. Nicolay says the Confederates held a mountain defile and that Rosecrans's column climbed through pathless forest to the crest; he quotes Garnett calling the two passes the gates to the northwestern country.

Ground from an interested report and a history; no map inspected.