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Report of Col. Langhorne Wister, HDQRS. SECOND BRIG., THIRD DIV., FIRST ARMY CORPS, SIR: I have the honor to report that last night at 8 o’clock notice came to me casually, through Lieutenant Griffin, One hundred and forty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was on picket near the Warrenton Railroad, that 7 of his men had been taken prisoners, paroled, and released. I immediately sent out to the line and had the lieutenant and 2 men brought in to my headquarters in arrest, found out the circumstances of the capture, and notified you of the fact. The capture shows gross negligence on the part of both officers and men, and the greatest cowardice on the part of the men. When the capture was made, the men were sitting down apart from their arms, without accouterments, making coffee. LANGHORNE WISTER, Colonel 150th Regiment Pennsylvania Vols., Comdg. Maj. E. C. BAIRD, Assistant Adjutant-General.  |