Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-19

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WASHINGTON, June isth.-By telegraph
from camp to Lieut.. Geu. Scott. Lsft
camp with 66s rank and file and tw.ntv-
nine field and company officers, in purst,-
ance of Geul McDOwelIs orders. tn iru mn.
ON this expedition with available force %,
one OF my Regiments. The Regimeut
selected being tue hrst Ohio YulunLesrs. l,.ft
two companies, and X, in the aggregate
1856 men, at tie crossing of the roads and
sent Lieut.. Col. ParrAtt, with two cum
pUuies, II men, to Falls Church mud IN
patrol tue roads ip that direction; stationed
Two companies, d and +, 1856 men, to guard
the railroad and bridge between the cross
ing and Vienna; pr ceeded slowly TO vi
emma with tour companies, companies L
and q, afterwHrd joined by Capt. Pease
CO. G, Capt. Bully, co. H, Capt. Hazlett'
total 275 men, ON turning the curve, with
in one quarter of a mile of Vienna. wer.
fired upon by rnking masked batteries. /
think three guns With shells, round Shot
and grape, killing and wouuding men on
the platform and in the cars, before the train
could be stopped. When the train stoppel
the engineer could not, on account OF the
damage done to some part of the runnin0
machinery, draw the train out of the fire,
The engine being in the rear. We left ,b,.
cars and retired to theright and left of the
train terough the woods. Finding that
the enemies batteries we're sustained bv
what appeared about II regiment of Infnn-
try and by Cavalry, which force we have
since understood to have been 1900 South
CarOlinians. We tell back along the Rail.
road, throwing out skirmishers on both
banks and this was about Z p. NJ, Thus
we returned slowly, beuring off our wound
ed miles TO this paint which we reach
at 10 o'clock.
Cdsualties.-Captain Hazlctt's company
ii, known to he killed, 3 wounded and :
missing; Capt. Bailey's company G, 3
killed, wounded and missing; Cant.
P"ddock's company E, officer slightly
wounded; Capt. Pease's company, miss
ing.
The engineer, when the men left the
cars, instead OF retiring slowly, as or
dered, detached his engine with one pass
senger car from the rest of the disabled
train, and abandoned us, running to
Alexandria, and we have heard nothing
from him since. Thus we were derived
OF rallying point, nnd of all means of
accompanying the wounded, who had to
be carried on filters and blankets. We
wait here holding the road for reinforce
ments- The enemy did not pursue. |
have nscertained that the cnemy's force
at Fairfax Court House, four miles from
Vienna, is now about 1000.
When all tue batteries opened upon us,
Major Hughey was at his station on the
foremost platform cur. Col. McConk was
with me in one of the passenger. cars
Both. of these officers, with others of the
commissioued officers and many OF the
men, behaved most nobly under this gnli.
ing hire, which we could not flank OF
The approach to Vienna is through q
deep, long cut in the railway. In lenv.
ing the cars, and before they could rally
many OF the men lost their hnvresacks OF
blankets, but brought of all their mus.
kets, except, it may be, a few that were
destroyed by the enemy's first fire, oil
lost with the killed.
(Signed) ROM. C. scnExCx.
Brigadier Gcueral.