This command maintained a complete system of patrols along the upper Niagara River.

Two companies of the 44th Battalion were also stationed at Chippawa to guard the bridges and approaches to that place.
The St.Catharines Battery of Garrison Artillery (Capt.

Thomas Oswald) was attached to the 19th Battalion, a portion of the Battery, under Lieut.

J.G.Holmes, doing duty in guarding the locks on the Welland Canal at Allanburg, and the remainder being placed on board the tug "Clara Carter" with two field guns, which boat was employed to cruise Lake Erie and the Niagara River.
The Queenston Mounted Infantry, under command of Capt.

Robert Currie, maintained an efficient patrol of the lower Niagara frontier, with two officers and 18 men at Niagara, and one officer and 18 men at Queenston.
The 37th Haldimand Battalion was ordered to Port Colborne, and also the Welland Canal, Field Battery, where they maintained a vigilant, guard on the entrance to the Welland Canal, which was threatened by an Fenian attack.
The United States gunboat "Michigan" was at Port Colborne on the 24th, and left on a cruise along the shores of Lake Erie with positive orders from the American Government to sink any piratical craft that might attempt to make a crossing.