It was just at this moment that Dr.Tempest received the sad intelligence that his own son had been killed in the engagement, which was a crushing blow to the patriotic father.

He, however, remained at his post of duty, carefully supervising details in the movement of several surgeons to the battlefield, fourteen miles distant, and directed affairs at Port Colborne to receive the wounded on their arrival at that point.

No vehicles were available at Port Colborne, but Doctors Stevenson and Howson, noticing a farmer's waggon passing by, impressed it into the service and started together for the battle ground, where they arrived about 2 o'clock Sunday morning.

They found our wounded in the houses in the neighborhood, and with the assistance of Dr.Clark, of St.Catharines, Doctors Brewster and Duncan, of Port Colborne, and Dr.Allen, quickly dressed the wounds of all of the wounded.

The dead were sent on to Port Colborne in waggons, and a train was ordered to proceed to Ridgeway to bring back the wounded.