* * * Disembark at Ridgeway and march to Stevensville at 9 to 9.30 a.m." The bread ration having been secured, the train left Port Colborne soon after 5 a.m.en route for Stevensville.

The only horse on the cars belonged to Major Skinner, 13th Battalion, who had kindly offered him for my service.

I expressed a desire that the field officers of the Queen's Own would take their horses, but was met by the reply that they would be of no use in the woods where we should likely be, and that it was thought best not to take them.
I sent a pilot engine in advance of the train some ten or fifteen minutes, and instructed its driver, if possible, to communicate with Fort Erie.

The train with the volunteers proceeded very slowly and cautiously, and arrived at Ridgeway without a sign of obstruction, after more than an hour from its departure from Port Colborne.

At Ridgeway we formed battalions in column of companies, right in front.
Means of conveyance for my stores not being at hand.