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Action near Vienna, VA
in the American Civil War
June 17, 1861
Online Books:
Official Records, Reports (Page
124-130)
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, by the United
States War Department, 1880
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Union Battle Summary |
| Vienna, Va., June 17, 1861. 1st Ohio Volunteers.
Brig.-Gen. Robert C. Schenck with some 270 men left the Federal camp
and took passage on a train for the purpose of guarding the railroad
bridge at Vienna. As the train was rounding a curve just before
entering Vienna it was fired upon by a masked battery of 3 guns and
before it could be stopped several men were killed or wounded. Upon
disembarking, the troops retired to the right and left of the train
through the woods, but finding the battery supported by a regiment of
cavalry and another of infantry, Schenck withdrew along the railroad
to a point 5 miles distant. The Union loss in this affair was 8 killed
and 4 wounded; the Confederates sustained no casualties.
Source: The Union Army, Volume 5, Cyclopedia of Battles,
1908 |
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