The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-19
Official Report Of the Vienna Affair."

Left camp with 66S rank and file and % so,1
and company officers, IN pursuance OF Gen M
Dowall orders to 90 upon the expedition v,'h
an available force OF my regiments. Wv"
The regiment selected was the first Ohm val
unteers. Left companies and X, with an ~
gregate of 1876 men, ut the crossing Of the rnsS
Sent Lieut.. Col. Parrot with two comnanio. "
III men to Fail Church to patrol the road -
that direction. Stationed Companies d and ~ u
1876 men, to guard the railroad and bridra b.
tween the crossing and Vienna. procradod
slowly to Vienna with four COMPANIES vi.
company E, Capt. Paddock company G, l;snt
w oodward Captain Pease afterwards ionei
the company J company e. Capt Bailey com.
pany IL. Capt Haslett all numbering us m4n
On turning the curve slowly within one Quart,
of a mile of Vienna, were fired upon by rakjue
masked batteries Of, think. three guns. Wiz
shells, round shot and grape, killing and wound.
ing the men on the platform and in the cars ha
fore the train could be STOPPED.
When the train stopped, the engine coo)d
not, on account Of damage 10 some part of tho
machinery, draw the train out Of the fire. the
engine being in the rear. We left tho cars, and
retired to the right end left OF the town, th.ouob
the woods, finding tie enemy's batteries were
sustained by what appeared about q regiment Of
infantry, and by cavalry, which force We have
since understood to have been about 1900 South
Caronians. We fell back along the railroad
throwing out skirmisncrs on both tanks, Tha
was about + p. NJ. Thus we retired SLOWLY
bearing off our wounded, five miles to this point
which we reached at 10 o clock.
Casualtles-Capt. Hazetts company. 2
known to be killed, 3 wounded, and missing
Capt. Bailey company, 3 killed 2 wounded, 2
missing; Capt. Paddock g company, an othcer
slightly wounded; Capt. Pease and 2 men mis-
sing.
The engineer, when the men left the cars, in.
stead of retiring slowly, as ordered, detachsd
his engine. with one passenger car. from the
rest OF the disabled train land run to Alexandria
and we have hear! nothing Of him since
Thus we were deprived Of G rallying point and
Of All means for conveying the wounded, " no had
to be carried on littcrs and in blankets We
wait here holding the road for reiuioroements--
The enemy did not pursue.
have ascertalned that the onemy's force at
Fairfax Court House, four miles from Vienna is
now about four thousand.
When ali the batteries opened upon us, Mai.
Hughes was at his station on tho foremost plat
form Car. Col McCook was with me in one Of
the passenger cars.
Both these officers with other commissioned
officers and many Of the men behaved most cool
ly under this CALLING fire, which we could not re-
turn, and from the batteries which we could no.
flank or turn from the nature of the ground.
The approach to Vienna is through deep, long
cut in tho railway.
In leaving the cars, and before they could raj
ly, many OF my men lost their haversackA or
bunke,s, but brought off all their muskets ex-
cept it may be few that were destroyed by the
enemy s first fire.
(Signed) ROBT T. SCHENCK,
Brig General.