Mr.Edwards will also have temporary rank, as lieutenant.

The men of the six companies, of the three regiments, will be paraded tomorrow, and asked for volunteers for the special service.

If there are more than fifty offer, you can select your own men." Accordingly, the next morning, the troops to be left behind were paraded, and an order was read out, saying that a corps of scouts for special service was to be raised, and that volunteers were requested.
Upwards of a hundred men stepped forward, and, being formed in line, James selected from them fifty who appeared to him the most hardy, active, and intelligent looking.

He himself had, that morning, been put in orders as captain of the new corps, and had assumed the insignia of his temporary rank.

The colonel had placed at his disposal two intelligent young non-commissioned officers.
The next morning, he marched with his command for Fort William Henry.
No sooner had he left the open country, and entered the woods, than he began to instruct the men in their new duties.