Roxham and Havelock Infantry Companies, and a detachment of the Montreal Cavalry.
With this force he proceeded to Hemmingford, where he halted on the 3rd and sent out scouts to observe the operations of the enemy on the frontier.

Learning that an attack was likely to be made on the Huntingdon frontier.Col.Smith left next morning at daybreak with his column for the threatened point.

The weather was exceedingly unfavorable, as it rained incessantly all day, and the roads were in a very bad state.

Still he pushed on, and covered 37 miles, which his troops accomplished in a splendid manner, and went into camp that night with only two patients reported on the hospital returns as being incapacitated by the fatiguing march.

The direct approach to Huntingdon from Malone, where the Fenians were mobilizing, is by the Trout River Road, and across this path Col.