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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
News.war matters. The Baltimore Exchange, of the 18th inst., received yesterday by special express, contains the following interesting accounts of the skirmish at Vienna on Monday evening last. The first account is quoted from the National Intelligencer, and may be regarded as reliable: On Sunday last, when a train of cars was returning from Vienna, on the Alexandria and Loudoun Railroad, (about fifteen miles from Alexandria,) a man fired on the train from an ambush, wounding 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 yesterday Col. McCook's First Ohio Regiment, accompanied by Gen. Schenck, set out in a train of cars, and the men were distributed in detachments along the line. When the cars reached Vienna, at about five o'clock, with only three companies remaining, a masked battery was opened u