Stephens' battalion, left Clifton by the Erie and Niagara Railway for Black Creek.

Shortly after his arrival there (at daybreak) he was joined by 200 rank and file of the 60th Rifles under Capt.
Travers, and 140 of the 16th Regiment under command of Capt.

Hogge, which troops had bivouacked at New Germany overnight.

On the report of Lieut.-Col.

John Hillyard Cameron that the Erie and Niagara Railway was passable to a point near Fort Erie, Col.