R.W.Lowry, of Her Majesty's 47th Regiment, received orders to proceed to the front with reinforcements, and left Toronto at 2 p.m.via the Great Western Railway with Capt.

Crowe's Battery of Royal Artillery, equipped with four field guns.

He was accompanied by Col.

Wolseley (afterward Field Marshal Lord Wolseley), who was then serving in Canada as Assistant Quartermaster-General on the staff of the Lieut.-General commanding Her Majesty's Forces in British America; and by Lieut.

Turner, R.E.; Lieut.
Dent, 47th Regiment, and Lieut.-Col.