They both stated that if necessary an entire regiment could have been raised in Chicago for the defence of Canada, so ardent were the Canadians in that city to assist in driving out the invaders.
After hearty cheers had been given for the Queen, the Chicago Volunteers, and the men on duty at the front, the Chicago men were marched to the Metropolitan Hotel and the Robinson House, where refreshments and lodgings had been provided for them for the night.
On the following morning this band of patriots formally tendered their services to the Government as a company to be enrolled as volunteers for the defence of the Province.

The Mayor and Col.

Durie (Assistant Adjutant-General) called on Gen.

Napier, and presented the offer, which was immediately accepted by the General on behalf of the Government.

At the same time he spoke in the most complimentary terms of the patriotic spirit evinced by these gallant young men, and desired Col.