Kessler's Cross Lanes WV004

supportedunresolved Rosecrans relays Cox's reports that the Seventh Ohio was surprised at breakfast and overpowered by superior numbers. Wise says Floyd had information of 500 of the enemy within five miles and called for Wise's strongest regiment, and that Floyd surprised Tyler's regiment at breakfast.

Second-hand and retrospective accounts; no picket or scouting record inspected.

supportedunresolved Wise says Floyd's only ferry-boat was lost on August 23 and that his own regiments were meager from measles. Rosecrans relays that the Seventh Ohio's baggage trains were saved; his telegram's words 'Troops sickly' follow a report of Lee's and Loring's 10,000 men at Huntersville and do not say whose troops are meant.

Condition statements from a co-commander's retrospective report and relayed dispatches; no returns inspected.

supportedunresolved Wise quotes Floyd as able to defend himself against Cox and Tyler together and believed the Union advance guard was sent to draw Wise's own forces to Carnifix. Rosecrans planned to attack and crush Floyd's column near Summersville. NPS says Floyd afterwards withdrew to a defensive position at Carnifex Ferry.

Stated aims and interpretations from a co-commander's report, a dispatch and a summary.

supportedpost_outcome The frozen and live results read Confederate victory. NPS says the Union forces were surprised and routed; Rosecrans relays that the regiment was dispersed and scattered; Wise says Floyd routed it without losing a man and later wrote of the enemy's utter dispersion.

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 285 (US 245; CS 40); the live field reads 172 (US 132; CS 40). Rosecrans relays that half the regiment had come in, the rest straggling, with many missing but casualties thought not great; Wise says Floyd lost no man.

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 frozen and live Confederate 40 has no inspected basis.

supportedunresolved The frozen commanders are Brigadier General John Floyd and Colonel Erastus Tyler; the live page gives Tyler as Brigadier General. Rosecrans relays that the Seventh Ohio was under Tyler; Wise says Floyd ordered him to send regiments, that he withheld them pending further orders, and that Floyd surprised Tyler's regiment. Neither listed commander's own report is in the inspected volume.

Command roles from relayed and retrospective accounts; no automatic sole credit and the live rank is not adopted.

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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. Rosecrans's first August 28 telegram relays Cox's report that Tyler's Seventh Ohio, an advanced regiment, was surprised by Floyd, and places Floyd with five regiments and three guns at Cross-Lanes and Wise 'with about the same force' on New River. His second telegram, after relaying Cox's intention to hold Gauley, gives the enemy as estimated at 5,000 to 10,000 without saying whether that covers Floyd alone or Floyd and Wise. Wise gives Floyd's command as 2,600 men, less the sick and furloughed, and calls Tyler's regiment the enemy's advance guard.

Second-hand estimates and a co-commander's itemized figure from October; no count of those engaged. None is adopted as a matched opening strength. The live zero is not measured absence. The 5,000-10,000 estimate has an unstated population and is not assigned to the attacking force.

supportedunresolved NPS says Floyd crossed the Gauley River to attack Tyler's regiment at Kessler's Cross Lanes; Rosecrans places Cross-Lanes five miles below Summersville on the Gauley road. Wise says Floyd lost his only ferry-boat on August 23 and was in danger of being cut off.

Location from a summary and a relayed dispatch; crossing difficulty from a co-commander's retrospective report. No map inspected.