The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-19
WAR MOVEMENTS.
ANOTHER DISASTER FROM a MASH

! #gtHE fFF RAgrTERY. 1EPF T57--:1 /,
! SUNDAY last, when train of cars was return
ing from. Vienna, On the Alexandria and Loodoun
! Railroad (ab0ut fifteen miles from Alexandrial a
! man fired on the train from an ambush. woundinu
| George Busbee, of the Connecticut Light Guards
| and came near wounding Gen. TYLER who was
! standing at his side in an open car.
In consequence of this attack the Government
resolved to place pickets along the road and yes
terday Col. McCook's First Ohio Regiment. accom-
4 panied by Gen. Sehenck set on in train III c.rs
and the men were distributed in detaehmepts aIono
the line When the cars reached Vienna at about
i fye o'clock, with only three companies remaining
7 MASKED battery was opened upon them, killing
I and wounding, according to the report we have
/ about two hundred of them. Reiniorcemepts we're
sent forward, but we have further particulars of
what occurred. .-Notienqi inteiHgenecr =.
"A small portion Of the above important despatch
was telegTaphed to this city on Monday evening
last, but 1t was promptly suppressed bv order of
the Federal Government, so that the official report
might nave precedence. As the report of Briga-
dier General Schenck follows very carefully the
I precedent set by General Butler in the Great
| Bethel affair, and puts down the number of killed
! AMI wounded at twenty only, whilst the National
| jneHigencer, mnre candid and ingenious announcas
q loss Of two hundred, the reason whv the Gov.
ernment was anxious TO tell its own story first is
| obvious.
! AN ESGAGETENT BETWEEN THE FED
ESA14 TROOPS AND a MASKED BATE
EH NEA& VIENNA, ON THE LOUDOUN
despatch was received here at late hour last
night, by telegraph from the camp, addressed to
| Lieut.. Gen. Scott:
| Left camp With GG8 rank and file, including %
ID and company officers, in pursuance of General
McDowePs orders to go upon this expedition with
all the available force of one of nv regiments
The regiment selected being the lst Ohio volun-
teers, | left two companies, company and
company X, an aggregate of l35 men, at the
crdssing of the road. Sent Lieutenant Colonel Par
rot with two companies og III men to Falls Church.
and to patrol the roads in that direction sta.
toned two companies d and F. comprising
I53 men, to guard the railroad and bridge between
the crossing and Vienna. | then proceeded slowly
toward Vienna with four companies
Company +, Captain Paddock, and company C,
Lieut. W. dward. who were afterwards Joined nv
company ID, Captain Pease company G., Captain
Bailey, company II, Captain Haslett total 275 men
On turning the curve slowly, when within one
quarter OF mile OF Vienna, we fired upon
by rakIng masked battery Of, think, three guns
with shells, round shot and grape killing and
wonndlng the men on the platform and in the cars
before the train could be stopped. when the train
was stopped, the engineer could not on account of
the damage done to some part of the running ma
ehnery, draw the train out of the range of the enc
mics IRE. The engine being in the rear, we left
the cars and retreated to the right and left of the
tram through the woods. Finding that the enc
mics batteries were sustained by what appeared
to be about regiment of infantry and bv
cavalry, which force have since understand
to have been some 800 South Carolinians, we
fel! back along the railroad, throwing out skirm;sb
ron both fanks. .s ...-
This was about o'clock, P. NJ. Thus we retired
slowly, bearing off our wounded five miles to This
point, Little Falls Church which we reached Of
10 Q'clock, p. NJ.
ihe casualties are as follows: Capt. HasIett,s
company, known to be Killed, and wounded;
missing. r. rH5
CjRpt Baey's company, G, 9 killed, . wounded,
and2 missing.
Capt. PaddOck's company, E, one officer slight
~ W0undad, Capt. Pease, and two missing.
The engineer, when the men left the cars instead
OF retiring slowly, ordered, detached his engine
Wlth the passenger car, from the rest of the dis
abied train, and abandoned us, running to AIeyan-
Grla, and we have heard nothing from him since
lhus we were deprived OF rallying point, and of
all means of accompanying the wounded who
bad to be carried litters and in blankets We
w wa't here holding the road for reinforcements
The enemy did not pursue. .s 80
have ascertaiued that the anemy's force st
FairfaX Court House, four miles from Vienna is
now ab0nt 1000 strong. When all the batteries
we're opened upon US, Major Hughey was at his
station on the foremost platform car Col Mo
Cook was with me in one of the passenger cars
Both ot these officers. with others of the conn
mlsSnned officers and many of the men he
mayed most cooiiy under this CALLING fire.
winch We c7nid net return, and from batteries
which we could not flank or turn owing to the na
tureIot the ground. The approach to Vienna il
ihrough deep, long-cut in the railway. On Ieav-
ing the cars and before they could rally many of
my men lost their haversacks or blanksts bnt
brought off all their muskets. except it NAV be. n
lew that were destroyed by the enemy's first fire
or lost with those who wero killed.
ts'sned) Ron,I,r G. scHENcK,
Brigadier- General.
The list regiment went down to Alexandria. but
arrived after the battle was over. As thew left
says the Washington Star train came down from
vienna, bringing eight killed and fourteen or
hiteen wounded. Some of the killed were BROUGHT
to this city by the steamer Star, which plies be-
seventh street wharf and Alexandria.
..r... Another Account,
The correspondent Of the Washington Stnr
FALLS CRURcH, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA.,1
W. D. FaUach
DEAR SIR-Wheu General Schenck reached this
point Yesterday, by rail, with the Ohio regiment
OF Col. McCook that stumbled on the disunionists
concealed battery near Vienna, they were duly
notified that between a thousand and elaven hpn
dFed South Carolina troops were stationed there
consultation was held the cars and some of
the officers urged that discretion was the better
part .ot vaor, while others maintained that thew
could whip them anyhow. 1t was determined to
proceed, and when the train got in sight of the
battery, OF the existence of which no one on it 1.-THE
UalhJ knew anything, the brakes were instantly
put uoWn hard to stop as quickly as possible That
was at the curve just east of Vienna Ii was too
late, however, for shot came BOOMING slong that
severed the connection of the locomotive with the
train. o o
p, The battery fired seven shots in all, killing, be-
neVe, hFe OF our men and wounding more before
Coi. NcIook ordered his men to seek cover of tho
WOODS, winch was all that could be done under the
CIRCUMSTANCES at that time. The whole reoimont
a;nl AiexandFla upon the expedition, which was de-
sighea 20 ieaEe strong guard upon the railroad
all the way to Vienna. BY the time the train ar
rived at Falls Church all but three Companies had
oeeh go posted those three being all that we're fred
on by the battery. message was sent bv the lo-
comotve back for the companies left below who
hurried up to the relief of those in the woods and
the advance of the relief got on the ground inst rs
| the attacked parties had formed in the woods All
the train, wood cars, and two passenger cars were
completely demolished BIZ the fire of the ba,terv
the locomotive and tender only escaping W.M.H'
Another correspondent saws:
Nine killed and thirty wounded was tho b;obo.t
estimate in Alexandria at noon to-day The en-.
gagernent lasted not more than twenty minutes.
LATER FROM VIENNA. t-
riVe Thousand Troops near that Station
e.. The Killed and Wounded
ALEXANDRA, June 1S-P. M.-The train from,
up the Vienna road, at AZ o'clock this afternoon
represents that all was quiet at that point There
We're 5000 United States troops. INCLUDING Raw
sons battery, in the vicinity. ... o. =, ~.
Two more wounded men of the Ohio repimant
we're found IN farm house to-day in the vicinity
OF Jenna, whittier they had crawled Their names
nave not been ascertained. Private Mercer Of
Company Fl, who was brought here. died dnrinq
tse afternoon. The number of casualties are est;
mated at fifteen, eight killed and seven wounded.
In relation TO the affair of Yesterday il appears
from inquiry, that General Schenck received ;nfor.
nation that the Secessiansts were at Vienna
when within Elk miles this side of that station
by man who hailed the train It Is
considered at least unfortunate that the Ohio Re-
glmens should haye been distribu along the road
before entering the enemies' lines, leaving but a
small force to contend with what is ALWAYS to be
appFeheDded from the planting of masked batteries
and laying ambuscades Providentially, the Con
fedeFa5es retired, doubtless with the impressnn
tnat the small force they bad attacked was but the
advanced guards of the grand army. The en-
glneer, BY putting back, secured timely reinforce
nents otherwise the small band might in reality
have been cut to pieces, as was at first fenred To he
the case by those who returned or the disabled en-
| gine.- ..-t -....-.-
Further ParticuIars--EIlitary Movements
Against the Enemy.
| ALEXANDRIA, June lS.-The train which was sent
to the erelief of the Ohio troops, containing the
Ist and ID Connecticut Regiments. proceedad &c
Tar as four miles this side of Yienna, where thew
met the remnant of the Ohio troops at 4 o'clock
this mo rning.
IL appears that after the engine left last nipht
and ninet rounds had been fired, the secession
lists made no further demonstration and the Ohio
companies retired. Mr. Dorman, employed as a
hrakesman on the road, who was the oniy one of
the employees who started with the train saws that
the attack was made about half past O'Clock YES
terday afternoon. The enemy had planted their can
non immediately at curve OF the road which is
straight for some distance.
1t is supposed that the enemy were in exnecta
''"n oi meeting larger force, and that the Ohio
companies were only an advanced guard.
vi the, military movements now in prprrazz oon-
sequent upon this affair, your correspondent con-
slders 1t improper now to sneak