The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-19
One Of the Ohio Regiments
Fired Upon from a
Masked Battery.
Eight Of the Ohio Troops Kille d.,
Seven Wounded and
Ten Missing.



Another train Of YES sent ol. from Alexandria
yests das afternoon TO Vienna taking thu time C,lons
McC. oks Oh,o Re sment accompanied by Con. sohenck
Companies dropped along the road and the train
reached Vienna with but three companies, when a
masked bsstey coered on them killing and wornding
abou. twenty Of or troops
The following despatch received IN THE city at
hte hour last night By telegraph from the rsegyaphic
Camp
70 LnuTEy Ant GEsKHAL Scorr -
left camp with six hundred aud sxty.egat rauk and
ae and twenty Mrs field aud company officers IN plr
susnce Of General NcOowes ode-r 90 up,n this ex
petition with the available force Of one OF my
regiments The regiment selected the FIRST Ohio
volunteers. I left two corpanies-C,mpany and Com
pAny X, in the aggregate hundred and thirty dve
the crossing OF the road. sen. Lieutenant Co
lionel PARROT with two companies Of hun
dred and seventeen to Falls church, to
patrol the roads in tina. direction. I stationed
two companies-Company aud Company F, ons bun
dred and thirty meuto guard the railroad and the bridge
between the crossing and Vienna. then proceed
cd slowly 10 Vienna with four compAnes-Com ,auy G.
Captain Paddock Company G, Lieutenant Wood ward (s
Towards joined BY Csptsin Pease) Company ~ Captain
Bailey, and Comoany a, Explain Haz!e.t-to.el, two
hundred and seventy.Dve men On turning the
slowly within quarter OF mile Of Vienna, We
fred upon by raking masked batteries Of think
three euns with SHE'LL round shot and grape, killing aud
woundipg the the platform and In the csrs before
the train could be stopped
when the train stopped the engine could not on &C.
count Of damage to part Of the running machinery
draw the traiR out Of the fire.
The engine being In the rear We left the cars and re-
tired 70 the right and left Of the train through the
woods
BY what appeared about regiment OF infantry and By
cavalry which force we have since understood 70 have
been some fifteen hundred South Carolinians, we fell
back along the raroaa throwing out administers on
both TANKS. This IVES about seven o'clookP. NJ Thus
We retired slowly, bearing OF our wounded FIVE miles
70 this point, which We reached At ten O'Clock.
The following is q list OF the casualties -
Captain Hazletts, Company 1.-Two known TO be killed,
three wounded, five missing.
Capt. Baey's, Company G-Th1ee killed, two wounded
and two missing.
Cspt. Paddock's. Company E-one officer slightly
wounded.
Company Capt Pease and two missing
The engineer when the left the cars instead Of
retiring slowly, ordered detached his engine, With
passenger car from the rest OF the disabled train
and abandoned US, running to Alexandria, aud we
have heard nothing from him since. Thus we
were oepri'eo VI TAs ing punt, @n' VI all nesus VI
conveying the wounded who had to be carried ttsrs
and In blankets We wait here, holding the road for
renforcemen's The enemy did not pursue.
have sscertaiDed that the enemys force at Fairfax
Court House, four miles from Vienna is about four
Thousand
when all tbe er1y's batteries opened upon US Major
Bpghey at his station the foremost platform
Co AcCook with me In one OF the passenger cars
Both theee officers with others Of the commissioned
officers and many of the men, behaved most
ceoly under this CALLING fire, which we could not re-
turn and from batteries which could not flank OF
turn from the nature Of the ground The approach to
Vienna is through deep cut in the railway In leav
ing the cars, and before they could rally many Of
my lost their haversacks blankets but brought
off oil their muskets, except may be few that were
destroyed by the enemys first fire or lost with the killed
ROBERT @. SCaENCK, Brigadier General