ORs: (US) Report of Gen E. A. Paine - April 11, 1863

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 23, Part 1, Page 215-216

GALLATIN,
April 11, 1863.

GENERAL:
I will have 1,000 men at Lebanon to-morrow morning at daylight. The attack on the train was made at 4 o’clock p. m. yesterday, with three pieces of artillery, I think Parrott guns. The battery was across Cumberland River, about 700 yards from the railroad track. The first shot knocked off the dome of the locomotive, the next went through the boiler, one shot broke out a spoke in one of the driving-wheels. Two men very dangerously wounded. Thirty.five shots were fired, and nearly all of them struck the train. Some of the men ran up the track and stopped the passenger trains. After the rebels left, the three trains ran into Nashville about midnight.

E. A. PAINE,
Brigadier-General.

Brig. Gen. JAMES A. GARFIELD,
Chief of Staff.