IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE: Reported Battle at Booneville, Missouri; GENERAL PRICE MORTALLY WOUNDED; Editorial-Western Virginia to Form a New State (6/19/1861)

There was an attack made upon a train of cars yesterday afternoon near Vienna. For incomprehensible reasons the correspondents were not per mitted to allude to the matter. The faces, I believe, we are now permitted to state.

A detachment of the First Ohio Regiment, three hundred in number, under command of Brig.-Gen. [???] and Col. MCCOOK, went up the Alexandria and Leesburgh road. When near Vienna it encountered a battery of six pieces, supported by fifteen hundred infantry. At the first fire the train was disabled and the troops thrown into confusion. They retreated, with a loss of seven killed and about a dozen wounded. The rebel battery also withdrew back upon the main body, near Manassas.

As is apparently the rule, the Commander skirmished with a locomotive, with a tender and a platoon of cars for advanced scouts, and so with a full head of steam run full upon the rebel battery. In view of the brilliant capacity to command exhibited by our Brigadier-Generals, it is understood that BEAUREGARD has issued orders to his sharp-shooters not to hit the men with epauletts, thus reversing the usual order of fighting. The rebels had rather encounter two or three of our Brigadiers than one private.

It is understood that the Cabinet has been actively engaged to-day in promoting officers in the regular army, so as to supersede, with men who know the duties of officers, those whose rank only now entitles them to command.

J. LATHROP MOTLEY, Esq., is in Washington. He has but lately returned from England.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Here is the "current" listing of Civil War encounters.
I count 12 encounters in 5 states (SC, VA, MD, MO, WVA) resulting in ~370 total casualties, ~130 of those killed:

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 12-14	Fort Sumter, SC	Confederate artillery, Union garrison	None	CSA
April 15	Evacuation of Fort Sumter, SC	Union garrison	Two Union soldiers killed, four wounded by accidental explosion	N.A.
April 19	Baltimore Riots, MD	MA 6th, PA 26th vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 12 civilians killed, hundreds wounded	USA
May 10	St. Louis Riots, MO	Union forces vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 3 prisoners, 28 civilians killed	USA
May 18-19	Sewell's Point, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
May 29- June 1	Aquila Creek, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
June 1	Fairfax Court House, VA	detachments from CSA & USA armies	8 on each side, 1 each killed	inconclusive
June 3	Philippi, WVA	Union Dept of Ohio (McClellan), CSA infantry	Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded)	USA
June 10	Big Bethel, VA	Union: 3,500 (Butler) , CSA 1,400 (Magruder)	Union 18-killed 53-wounded, CSA: 1-K 9-W	CSA
June 15	Hoo's Ferry (near Mathias Point) VA	Union schooner Christina Keen; CSA Farmer's Fork Grays	none -- Christina Keen captured and burned	CSA
June 17	Vienna, VA	Detachments from both Union & CSA armies	Union: 8 killed, 4 wounded; CSA: none reported	CSA
June 18	Camp Cole, MO	Union Home Guards (~500), Confederate State Guards (~350)	Union: 35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured CSA: 7-K, 25-W	CSA

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