20,071 persistent identities represent a selected infantry scenario: 11,482 in the main Confederate attack, 1,600 in the later Wilcox–Lang advance, and 6,989 Union infantry in this sector. These estimates are not exact participant totals or counts of survivors. Officers and representative color bearers use existing identities.
What the replay reconstructs
Direction and sequence follow the American Battlefield Trust phase maps, official reports and NPS studies. The selected 40-minute elapsed timeline is not a synchronized historical clock. Maps combine actions across intervals; exact minute marks, individual routes, wheel geometry, subdivisions, rank assignments and firing cycles are inferred.
Two ranks use 0.55 m per file with supporting lines behind. Symbol widths summarize these reconstructed frontages. Buildings and tree trunks have clearance envelopes; fence crossing motions are illustrative. The number of intact fence panels on July 3 is not known.
Where the evidence stops
When an attack is repulsed, its identities remain in the ledger but their exact positions become unresolved. Hollow markers show the collective withdrawal direction. They are not all survivors marching home. Deaths, wounds, prisoners and individual return paths are not assigned.
This is the central infantry sector, not both complete armies. The preliminary cannonade, artillery crews, mounted headquarters, ambulances, teamsters and further reinforcements are not yet represented. Musicians’ precise battle locations and Confederate regimental colors remain unresolved. Uniforms and close-up drill are representative, not individual portraits.
Internal allocations
Webb’s 72nd PA uses 380; the remaining 515 are provisionally divided 257/258 between 69th/71st elements. Stannard’s selected total is divided 572/571/572 among the 13th/14th/16th VT; four 14th VT companies use 228 of those identities. Sherrill’s 150 detached New Yorkers are subtracted from the parent budget. Hall/Harrow reinforcing elements use 40%, Gates half of Biddle, and Armistead’s leading group 300. These are explicit reconstruction choices, not recovered regimental returns.
Camera changes only the view. Pause, rewind and seek preserve the same identities and world time.