Transcript (excerpt):
Official Account of the Engagement
The following dispatch was received at a late hour last night:-
(By Telegram from the Military Camp.)
“To Lieut Gen. Scott:-We left camp with six hundred and sixty-eight, rank and file; twenty-nine field and company officers; in pursuance of Gen. McDowell’s orders to go upon this expedition, with the available force of one of my regiments. The regiment selected selected being the First Ohio volunteers. We left companies I and K, with an aggregate of one hundred and thirty-five men at the crossing of the road. Lieutenant Colonel Parrot, with two companies of one hundred and seventeen men, to go to Falls Church, and to patrol the roads in that direction. Stationed two companies (D and F, one hundred and thirty-five men,) to guard the railroad and bridge between the crossing and Vienna. We proceeded slowly to Vienna with four companies; Company E. Captain Paddock; Company C, Lieutenant Woodward, afterwards joined by Captain Pease, by Company G, Captain Bailey, Company H, Captain Hazlett, being a total of two hundred and seventy-five men.
“On turning the curve slowly within a quarter of a mile of Vienna we were fired upon by raking, marked batteries of, I think, three guns, with shell, round shot and grape, killing and wounding the men on the platform and in the cars before the train could be stopped.”…
“…The approach to Vienna is through a deep, long cut in the railway. In leaving the cars and before they could rally, many of my men lost haversacks and blankets, but brought off all their muskets, except, it may be, a few that were destroyed by the enemy’s first fire, or lost with the killed.”
Robert C. Schenck
“Brigadier General”
Citation: The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, 19 June 1861. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab. AN .P5546