O'Neil and some of his staff arrived at a point on the Vermont border to inspect the munitions of war and see that his directions were being properly carried out.

Fifteen thousand stands of arms, and almost three million rounds of ammunition, had been actually received and carefully stored at various places along the frontier between Ogdensburg and St.Albans.Several thousands of these arms were breech-loading rifles of heavy calibre, for which there was an unlimited amount of cartridges.
Malone, N.Y., and St.Albans, Vermont, were again selected as bases of operations by Gen.

O'Neil, and these towns were to be his principal places of muster.

When he had concluded his examination of "affairs at the front," the valiant General was in high spirits, occasioned by the belief that he would steal a march on the Canadian Government and again be over the border before his intention was observed.

He had taken great pains to have every preliminary preparation minutely made, and the fact that he had already smuggled an armament for fully 15,000 men to the frontier without exciting the suspicion of the usually vigilant officials of the United States, gave him considerable satisfaction and confidence.