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PREFACE.

No volcanic eruption ever broke out more unexpectedly than the rel)ellion in the North- West. Tliore were not wanting
wamtitgs, but those they reached looked upon them oa the outcome of fear or partizanship. Whatever their grievances or
distroaa, it could not be imagined that a few poor half-breeds would raise a standard against British power. After the
outbreak, serious events followed each other rapidly. Interest in what was impending alwdya left little thought for realizing
what had happened. Descriptions by mail of what was a fortnight past tumbled in on the heels of the telegrams of yesterday.
Now that the rebellion is over, aa orderly knowledge of the events in their sequence and relations will l>e desired by everyone.
In this work, care has been token to preserve only the romance of truth, discarding apocryphal embelliNhnirnts. Substantial
accuracy can b« vouched for, although some details will probably require correction from sources not' yet available..

CHAITER I.

viva LA NATfON L tlHUU.

On thti I7th n( KUrch, 18H6, • rumor,
designedly iiUrted, t»n tbrouKli the
half-breed aettleiiMnta scattered around
the little almrch<bf St. Laurent, on the
right bank of the South Saikatchewan
river, that the " police " were oruaaing
tu Buppreiw " La Nation Metiise," and

^''^ aeiieltii political and religious leader
Louia David Riel. There waa a hur-

' ried gathering, of which the few pro-
minent and active men of the little
community who were on hand, evident-
ly not mirpriaed, formed the greater
part. There and then "The Metis
Nation" wai declared to be established,
the authority of the Provisional Uov-
emment of the Saskatchewan was pro-
claimed, and both were to be main-
taimd, if necessary, by force of arms.
Runners were aeo't to arouse the half-
bree^ls and to secure the altiaooeof the
Indians, and Louis Riel, who had Just
been elected President, is reported to
have said " The Rebellion is a fact."

Louis Riel, the President, is inclined
to revolution by birth as well as by
character. He is said to be deacended
from a dashing young Irishman, possi-
bly an O'Reilly, who came to Canada
about the beginning of last century. His fatiier,
Jean Baptiste Riel (pronounced Re-eUa), whohad
but a dash of Indian blood in his veins, headed
an outbreak, in 1849, against the Hudson's Bay
Company in the North-West, rescued a prisoner
aad beoune so powerful that tho HononUa
Ooiapaiiy feU Obmpelled to pwohase his favor.
Tha nsans thna obtained brought increasing

iFMsinBe tiT ifgnature tu Puttunait rott.)

ooBsideration, which culminated in young Louis
Iwing sent to be educated at St Mary'm, com-
monly called the Jesuit's College, in Montreal,
for the priesthootl. That thiH institution had
but crude material to work on in the young bar-
barian may be Judged from the following pre-
served specimens of his early business oorres-
pondeaoe:—

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Willi t.l..rf:< n-.n'
,' My tluT tiir i wnt t«-

you Uip Silver FuK JtO

aiid lU mink! it?. IS

and tn-o Ilothtr . 1.16

Ua Iba Plniuaii ].».»}

1 am your aerv
Lh Riei,
buy Hr. frlseii 8i>n
My lUlr Hlr If it Ih ihissiIiIi'h ti> pot hia Horaa
inn wUl niouch blal|j<> you"
" Pr6rie du CIicvhI BInne
MonsIeiiT, Je vnus Hiivoia par In earann da
Ua VriM^s 18 pHir da Bouilltpr a £1,llii Mnu-
aiour 'Jal trouveH dun torpau umiH J'ataut |>eur
la'nfnna a&u d« retirez lu toreau vous pourex
alivulyer lar Kana pur oxavier fria^a.
J« aula vntre aervlteur
Lh Kisl
le 9 decembra 1863,"

H« was a relative and prot^g^ of
H' race Aitshbiahop Taohd, of St.
^ Boniface, who was destined to be his

protector in manhood as in boyhood.
, He did not enter the priesthood, but
studied law without much success in
J the oiBce of the Hon. Mr. Laitamme,

f and eventually returned tu the North-
West, a rather moody youth, of a melan-
choly turn of mind, full of Byronio
megrims about being uncom{ rehended,
but with religious tendencies as a re-
sult of his training. He had made little
improsaion upon his associates, and it
lii' - was with wonder they hoard, in 1869,
that he was the leader of the rebellious
half-bieeds of the Red River valley.
His claim at that time, and that of the small
native population whom he led, waa that they
were not in febellion, but were, as the natural
owners of the land, bound to resist invasion from
a government which had taken over their terri-
tory ^ pursuance of an agreement with a trading
company, to which their consent was nut asked
and in whicR their righta of property and of sell

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TIIK niEL RKnF.LTJON OF IfiflS.

K»v«rnin«nt w«r«ontircly ignored. Kiel'ii ref;iin«

wa«, for » time, cliaraeli'rizwl )>y iinKlwatinn on

well M unvTKy, Ijut tlio l)riiti.l nlayintfuf TliDiiiaH

Hcott ali«ii»ted the nyin|>atlii™i>f tin' IxttiT 1>C(>-

plo, and wlicn tlie cxiKi^litinn niiili-r O(ilont!l

Wi.lwiluy for tlio twlaliliiiliincnt of tlir Can^uiinn

antliority niacliod Kort ( iarry, Kiil liml Hi'il iw a

lonnly fugitive. Hi« iKwitidn sut a fiiniic'i- |iri)-

Ug6 of a liigli ocoleaiaiitic may liavu hiul kuwiu-

thing t<> do with the pniiiiincncu

acuorded liiiii by h'u fellowa, and

the a<lvantagoii wliicli he de-
manded for the church were

calculated to asHure hixfullowem •

of it« apiiroval of him. Even

after bin flight ha retained Huch

influence that the Ciovomment

iH)Ught and obtained Archbishop

Tach^'g aid tu induce him, u|xin

the payment secretly of a con-

iiiderable aum of money, to leave

the country. Though an outlaw,

ho waa returned to parliament

by the conatituency of I'roven-

chor, and actually api)earod in

the Chamber and aignod the roll.

Ho immediately disappeared,

however, and woa nowhere to

be foimd. It waa afterwards

learned that he had been for a

time at the reaidenco, at Terre-
bonne, of Madame Maaaon, the

patroness of hia college years,

and that later ho had been at

the provincial asylum for the

inaane at lieauimrt, whether as a

parlor lodger or aa a raving

lunatic is still a vexed question

among those who knew him

there. Still later, it waa known

that he had found a refuge among the Metia in
Montana, whore ho waa a "professor" at a Jesuit

"collega" In the summer of 1884, when the half-
breeda of the territories of Saskatchewan and

Aasiniboine wanted a loader who could attract
the attention of the Government to their claims
and grievances, they sent for Louis Kiel, at the
little mission of tit. Peter's, at the base of the
Rock}' Mountains. He returned, but not with
the fierce-looking, determined face, the imperi-
ous glance and the confident bearing of the
young adventurer of 18(>9. The Louis Kiel who,
during the fall and winter of 1884, addressed
meetings at the half-breed settlements through-
out the North-West, waa a rather shabby man,
with a neglected beard and a reatloas eye, whose
apprehensive glances gave him a hunted aspect.
He api>eared twenty yeara older than a man of
forty-one years. Ho was now a sort of pro-
fessional rebel, anxious to make capital out
of his talent for stirring up disaffection. At
first he spoke only of obtaining a recogni-
tion of the claims of the half-breeds, and
redress of their grievances by constitutional
methods. In the month of September, at a
public meeting at St. Laurent, he submitted
a Bill of Rights, which waa unanimously agreed
to, and which, it was under8t<H>d, was to be for-
warded to the Government at Ottawa. The list
of claims is a remarkable one. It reveala clearly
that the men who drew'them up had rebellion in
view, and that they were (xwaeased of a good
deal of political akill and aagacity. The claiii.c
in effect were : (1) The subdiviaion into pro-
vinces of the North-West Territories ; (2) the
half-breeds to receive the same grants and other
advantages as the Manitoba half-breeds; (3)
liatents to be issued at once to the colonists in

posaoasion ; (4) the saleof half amillion acres of
dominion lands, thn proceeds to Iki applied to
the fKtabliHhnieiit in tlin half-breed settlements
of kcIiihiIh, hoHpitalx, and such-likn inKtitutions,
and to the ivinipinent of the [KKirer lialflireeda
with MM'dKraiu and iiiipli iiiciitH ; (Ti) the reser-
vation of H hundred townshipa of nwaiep land
for distribution among the children of half-
brvuUs during the next one hundred and twenty

LOUIS RIEL, 1884.

years ; (0) a grant of at lesjat one thousand dol-
lars for the maintenance of an institution, to be
conducted by the nuns in each half-breed settle-
ment ; and (7) better provision for the support
of the Indiana.

This document was a bold bid for the support
of all peoples and powers in the North-West.
The English settlers wanted political rights;
these were appealed for in the first clauses.
Many of these regarded the agitation at the
beginning with favcr ; as likely to secure the
redress of real grievancea. Kiel expected their
support and complained bitterly that they
deserted as amm oa decisive action was called
for. They aaw, however, that the half-breeds
had determined to rebel, and took no part in
the movement. The demand for subsidies for
schoola and nunneries was a bid for the support
of the church. " The priests were for me and
they were against me," said RieL " They are
against me now, not because I rebelled, but
because I did not succeed in helping them."
The half-breeds to the third and fourth genera-
tion were to be provided for if these demands
were enforced. The loat demand is significant,
as it reveals the fact that from the first an
Indian rising in support of the half-breed rebel-
lion was counted upon.

That Riel intended to take part in actual
rebellion himself is more than doubtful. The
story was that the people, when he tried to
depart, retained his services with a pistol.
When asked why he fought, Riel declared "The
people compelled me to fight I told them last
winter that our Bill of Rights had done its work ;
they would get all that was :jiat in due time.
They aaid I could not go away ; the matter waa
stirred up and I must fight it out." There is

reason for doubting the sincerity of his belief
that the bill " had d<mo ita work," and of his
deaiio that it should do ita work, as hia own
pur[H>se was to create trouble in the lio|io that
ho would bo bribed, as he was in 1870, to leave
the country. Sir John Macdonald, the Premier,
declared in Parliament that the Ciovornment
had never received the Bill of Rights, and he
also stated that Riel hod made an offer to the
Government to leave the country
for 9(>,000, the same amount
which he had received in 187t).

The men whom he had stirred
up to rebellion were, howi.Tcr,
in thorough earnest. The Metis
(pronounce this name Meteece)
- are the descendants of those
energetic and adventurous voya-
genra, trappers and Hudson's
Bay employees, who made their
way amid great difliculties and
dangers to a country then out of
the world ; with the blood of
theae there mingled in their
veins that of probably the finest
dark race in the world. Unlike
other mixed races the Metis are
atrong in phyaique and strong
in mind, and are quite able to
hold their own with the pure
white in the race of life. A
Mei>s, inheriting the inorgiea
of iiany races, is to-day the
Premier of the conatitutional
government of Manitoba. These
bold, energetic men, long accus-
tomed to provide for and pro-
tect themselves and their fami-
lies amid exciting scenes, were
restive under the monotony of
farm life to which they had been driven by
the disappearance of the buffalo and of fur
animala, and by the construction of railways
which rendered " freighting " unnecessary.
When their rights to the land were not recog-
nized, when the surveyors threatened to square
their lane-like farms into quarter scctiims,
they grew pugnacious. Bred among territorial
feuds, they were not reluctant >K-*
to what was their former condition, and,
insane as it looks to people with a know-
ledge of the reaources of a Government
like that of the Dominion, were ready to
attempt by force to overthrow the authority of
the Canadian Government in the North-Weat.
Riel had inapired them with a belief in hia
power to bring the Metis of the United States
and the Indians of the whole West to his aid.
He probably also made prodigal promises of
Fenian assistance. He adopted the rdle of a
religious mystic, which probably came naturally
enough to a man of his tonn>erainent and
training, and by mysterious and incoherent
utterances appealed to the superstitious element
which is naturally strong in the wanderer in
the wilds. From among men such as these,
and of this temper, the Provisional Government
waa formed on that St. Patrick's Day.

The Adjutant-General, Gabriel Dumont, was
an old buffalo hunter and Indian fighter who
had fought on both sides of the line, and had
taken more human lives, if not scal.^s, than any
other man on the prairie. Tlie story goes that
at a sun-dance or a moon-dance, or some otlier
festival of the BUokfeet, the braves were,
according to custom, boasting of their individual
prowess, when Dumont, uninvited, jumped into
thoir midst and, flourishing his rifle, exclaimed

THK RlKIi REBELLION OF 18fW.

" I have killed twenty lilockfeet." Hih bravado,
true enough, iwrhapR, wnn no daring that it won
the admiration iniitoad of tho natural vengeance
of hie enemies. If )i« planned the defenco of
Batoche he waa not only a courngeouii Imt a
iikilful leadnr with a natural geniuB for en-
gineering. To tho nieiiilMini of Riel'H Council
that sago gavn the title of ernviiiea, which ho
explainod with Bomo littln pridn, probably, in
hielearning, to have Iwnn adapted from two Latin
wordHCJC "frMin,"ancl»reji ":i Hock," (»ic) and waa
meant to signify that none claiuiod any individ-
ual authority, and thin word was signed to all
official documents. Besides Dumont, they were
F. Jackson, President's Secretary ; Jean- Bap-
tiste Boucher, Donald Ross, Pierre Henri,
Moise Ouellette, Damase Carriere, Uavid
Tourand, Pierre (iuardepuy, Allwrt Monkman,
A. Jobin, Bonnet Blanc (White Cap), Chief
of the Sioux ; Beardy, Chief of the Crees ;
Chas. Trottier, Bass Bull, from Battle River ;
N. Delorme, B. Parentpau, K. Champagne ;
Fhillipe Oaruot, Secretary of tho Council ; H.
Dumas ; Octave Regnier, Assistant Secretary
of the Council; Jiweph (Jondul, Lunitonant of
Guards; Antoino Champai?iie, A. Turgeon,
Captain of the Horse; J. Paronteau, replaced
by M. Richelieu ; N. Carrier, Alex. Lobeau,
Barez, tho Sioux interpreter, M. Gareau and
ThoB. Vermett, Messenger of the Council.

MAJOR L. N. F. CBOZIER,
auperintendeDl of the Narth-We«t Mounted Pollee.

CHAPTER II.

THB nUOK LAKE riOHT.

The Provisional Government acted with
promptitude. On the 18th of March, Mr.
Lash, the Indian agent at Duck Lake, and hi9
interpreter were made prisoners, aa well as
other loyalists and freighters passing throogh
to Prince Albert. At midnight the telegraph
line waa cut south of Duck Lake, the wire
going wide in the middle of an important
telegram about tho state of affairs. All loyalists'
■tores in the settlements were taken over by
Kiel's Government, and on the eveninjr of
Muvh 26lh the Duck Lake Post waa captured,
v<ith all the Indian and Government stores
there. The reservation of Beardy, the half-

breed chief of a small band of alxnit one himdrwl
and sixty Indians, was just west of Duck Lake.
He was known as one i-f the worst be-
haved of the chiefs, and one who had already
given tho Mounted Police much trouble. By
promising him the op|>ortunity to plunder, the
Hupiiort of his warriors was assured.

Tho officers of tho Mounted Police knew that
trouble was brewing among the half-breeds of
St. Laurent, and Major Crozior with a forco
of seventy-five men had occupied Fort Carle-
ton, an old Hudson's Bay post on tho North
Saskatchewan, about twelve miles west of Duck
Lake, to watch tho half-breeds. With a forco
of sixty Moimted Policemen and forty volun-
teers from Prince Albert, whom he had sent
for. Major Crozier started on the morning
of the 26th March to bring away the Goveni-
mont stores and other property which were
at Duck Lake. Major Crozier, who had served
on the force for twelve years, and had snuffed
out two or three incipient Indian wars, had
proved himself a brave, prompt, and resolute
man. When near Beardy's reserve, and about
two miles from Duck Lake, a number of armed
men were discovered in a eoulit, or ravine
lightly fringed with poplars, through which the
trail led. A white flag was flying, and while
Major Crozier and his interpreter, Mackay,
went forward to call upon the men to sur-
render their arms, the police and volunteers,
who had been brought in sleighs, alighted and
commenced extending in a skirmishing line.
Crozier's demand was met by the question from
Gabriel Dumont, who led the rebels : "Is it to bo
a fight ?" Major Crozier believing that the rebels
were about to fire upon his men, ordered his
force to commence firing. Tho rebels had
already occupied two houses, not visible from
the rood, and from these, aa well aa from tho
coulee, they fired upon tho force. While tho
Mounted Police, with the aid of a seven-pound
gun, were trying to dislodge the rebels in the
coulee, the Prince Albert volunteers advanced,
firing upon those in the house. The volunteers
lost heavily and failed of their purpose. The
fight went on at short range for half an hour,
when the Mounted Police had expended all their
ammunition, the gun having become useless
after a few rounds. Seeing that the rebels were
creeping around by the edges of the coul^, and
that his men were in danger of being outflanked
and hemmed in by a greater number. Major
Crozier gave the order to retreat, which was car-
ried out, the little force leaving their dead on the
field but taking with them their useless gun and
the wounded. In that engagement of half an
hour, out of one hundred police and volunteers,
fourteen were killed and nine severely wounded.
Eleven of the killed were out of the forty
Prince Albert volunteers. The names of the
patriotic dead, the first on the death-roll of
this war, were: Captain John Morton, Wm.
Napier, James Blakely, Skeffington C. Elliot,
Robert Middleton, D. McPhail, Charles Hewit,
Joseph Anderson, D. Mackenzie, Chas. Pago,
and Alexander Fisher, civilians, and constables
T. J. Gibson, Garretty and J. P. Arnold of tho
Mounted Police force. The class of settlers in
the Canadian North-West may be guessed from
the fact that of the eleven civilians killed one
was the son of a Judge, and cousin of the leader
of the Opposition in the Dominion Parlia-
ment, one was a nephew of Sir Francis
Hincka, a former Canadian Premier and
Governor of the Windward Isles, one was a son
of Sir Charles Napier, and one a nephew of
' the celebrated Nova Scotian Statesman, the

BEARDY,
Chief of thp Uiicli Lako lisiiil.

Hon. Joseph llowo. On their way back to
Fort Carleton Major Crozier and his decimated
force were overtaken ju«t at tho gates of tho
stockade by Colonel Irvine, who had arrived
from Qu'Appelle with tlio long looked for rein-
forcement of one hundred niMiuited |>olicomen.

Fort Carleton was a fort only in name, having
no fortification but a stockade, and iMsing in a
valley it was untenable, Botiides it was supposed
the whole forco was needed to protect the town
of Prince Alliert and tlio scttler.s who had sought
refuge there. It was dccidtd to abandon the
place, and while tliis was being done tho wooden
houses took fire and it waa with difficulty tho
wounded men were saved, Tho train of sleighs
filled with the frightened families of settlers, and
the severely wounded men, and guarded by
troops, some of whom were suffering acutely
from a sense of defeat, turned northeastward to
traverse forty miles of country presumably
swarming with victorious rebels. The news of
the evacuation of tho fort was received about two
weeks before the news of their safe arrival at
Prince Albert. The suspense during that inter-
val was the most painful of many gloomy |)eriods
during the war. Prince Albert with three hun-
dred amied men was safe from attack, but, with
its greatly augmented population, fears were
entertained of tho provisions running out before
it waa relieved. At tho Duck I^ko engagement
the rel>ers force numbere<l two hundred, and
their loss was six killed and three wounded.
Beardy's Indians were not present, they being
detached to guard against an attack by Colonel
Irvine, who was known to Ik; close at hand. On
the 27th, Riel sent a prisoner to Fort Carleton
with a message to Colonel Irvine to send wag-
gons for his dead, which was done, two of the
other prisoners being given leavn to put the
bodies in places where they would be safe. In the
meantime Fort Carleton was occupied by Riel on
the 31st March, but was evacuated hurriedly
at midnight on the 2nd April ; on the 4th April
Duckliake was evacuated after the buildings had
been gutted and fired. Tho political portion of
the Provisional Government hod not been idle
while tb« military section had been so busy. It

TnK niEIi UKTIRLLION OF l8fW.

hkd MUliliiilie<l A r«fiirnin<l roliK><»> f<>r tliii Meti«
Dktiuii and hwJ furiiiuUtod the (ullowiiig creod :

" Wi! Iwllivp all lHille«r» nnnitltuU" tho Irui- ilmrrh.

Wr' iio ii.ii i»ii.'vi^ III tho iiirniiiMiity or till' ro)>« w«

tn'llnVH In till' lij«|ilr«tliiii of llic Holy Hrripliinaainltho
MKlit or iviry mall lo Irani tliii trilthn tiny rontaln.
Wi! IhIii'Vi- 111 a rrKiil«tlir onlalnid iiiliii»lry. Wp l«liev(i
In a r.iriii of ilmnh KoviTiiliifiit. iinfirrinit tliii I'plx'o-
t«l. WdtKillorollKirniaMMij OihI. Wi' (iruy to (ioil. to
CliMul, to Mary, lo the aalilta. Wo Iwlluvii In tlio Ami
aalvatloii of all iiivn,"

Rid li»d |irocl»imed liiiiiwilf to l>o "KliMwlio
WM til ciimii and c)mnK« uH tliit)Kit,"aiid to begin
with ha changed Saturday intu Sunday.

paring fur a aiogo, and tliat night waa paiied
under arnia. The nnit day the Indiana made
their np|>oaranco on tho a<iuth bank of tho Battle
river, and tho plunder of tho atorca and dwol-
liiiRH in tho nid town coninionced. Theao
Indiana wnro of I'iMiiidniaker'a trilie, and titers
wore priilialily nut ninro than one hundred of
them, but they wore ao'in after reinforced. On
tho ninrning of tliti Slut, at 3 a. in., a tall Indian
forced bin way into tho liedchaniber of George
Applegarth, tho farm inatructnr of Red Phea-
Hant'abnnd, at the Kaglo Hilla, about twenty
inilna aouth-went of liattlefurd, and warned him
that tho Indiana of tho roaorvo were up and he

CHAPTER III.

THR INDIAN limiNO.

The aucceaa of tho Motia
at Duck Lake excited tho
Indiana on every rcoervo
throughout the NorthWoat.
Without industry, and im-
provident, they are, in npito
of Cii vernuient aid, always
hungry and in want, and ovit
ready tf> supply their waiitn
by plunder if thoro is any
chance of aticceaa. Tho ro-
aervea of the atrongeHt and
moat warlike tribes were,
however, within easy strik-
ing diatance of the Canadian
I'acifia Railway, and tho
chief a, knowing how swiftly
a blow could be struck against
them, curbed tho reatlesa
young bravea, and wroto
characteristically eloquent
letters, alleging their perfect
loyalty to tho Govornniont,
which they trananiitted by
telegraph. Their loyalty waa
confirmed, doubtless, by gon-
cruua gifts of extra food and
tobacco.

One hundred and eighty
miles north of the railway,
at the junction of the Battle
and North Saskatchewan
rivers, is tho town of Battle-
ford, within a compoas of
thirty mile* of which were
the reserves of large bands of
Croo and Stoney Indians,
numbering in all over two
thousand. The abandon-
ment, by the Mounted Police,
of Fort Carleton, which
lies between Battloford
and Riel'a head-quarters at Batoche, allowed
free intercourse between him and these Indians
who could not resist a proapect of plunder and
tho war-path. On the night of the 29th March
the Indiana were reported to be advancing upon
Battleford, and some three hundred settlera and
townspeople thronged into the atookade at
Battleford, which is on the point formed by the
jimetion of the Battle River with the North
Saskatchewan. Col. Morris, who waa in com-
mand of the Mounted Police poat and the
local company, into which all the able-bodied
men enrolled themaelvee, had already aet
liu foroe to work buikUng baitioni and pre-

left Battleford on the 29th, he waa in conatant
danger. U|ion the aame night that Applegarth
wai4 attacked, the Stoneya of Mos({uito'a band,
on the reaerve adjoining Red Phoaaant's, mur-
dered their farm instructor, Payne, who, two
days before, had been aaaured of their loyalty.
The united banda, numbering about one hun-
dred fighting men, joined Poundmaker, and
soon an army of five or aix hundred Indiana lay
around that place. The Indians made no attack
«I«on the barracks, which, aituatod on a high
bluff on the river aide, were as impregnable to
an Indian force without cannon aa tho liock of
Uibraltar, but in trying to plunder that inrtof the
town nearest the fort they
I frequently came within range

of the Bevon-|)ounder gun,
and it waa used vigorously
and with effect u|>on several
> : . oooaaiona. The period of the

siege waa anxious but com-
paratively uneventful save
for the occasional arrest of a
a half-breed for one offence
or another, and for the
adventures of the scouts
who attempted to communi-
cate with the surrounding
poets.

RED PHEASANT.

would be murdered if he did not at once get
away. The Indian told him also that Battle-
ford was taken, and his only hope of escape waa
to follow the trail to Swift Current, a atation on
the Canadian Pacific railway one hundred and
seventy miles distant Applegarth put his wife
and child into a buckboard waggon, and taking
advantage of a moment when the Indiana were
plundering the atores, started on his long drive
for life, unobserved. He had not gone far before
the Indiana were after him, and all one desper-
ate night he dodged them from coulte to ooul^
and for two daya more, until he had caught up
to Judge Rouleau's party of refugee*, who had

CHAPTER IV.

THK FBOa LAK8 HASSAOBI.

• At almost the aame time
•a the outbreak at Battle-
ford, about a hundred and
fifty milea to the west, there
ooourred a aeriea of incidents
without parallol in the hia-
tory of Canada. Fort I'itt,
station of the Mounted Pol-
ice, on the north bank of th»
North Saskatchewan, about
one hundred and twenty
miles to the north-west of
Battleford, was hold by •
garrison of some twenty
men, under the command of
Captain Dickens, a son of
the great noveliat, who had
come to Canada and become
an Inspector in the force.
Thirty miles to the north-
west of this again was the
Indian station and mission '
of Frog Lake, situated on
the reserves of a couple of
Indians who were under the
influence of that suspicious
and moody chief. Big Bear.
On the 80th of March news of the Duck Lake
fight was received by Mr. T. T. Quinn, the
Indian agent at Frog Lake. The option was
given him by Inspector Dickens of coming to
Fort Pitt with all the people at Frog Lake, or of
being joined by the garriaon of Fort Pitt. A Coim-
cil of war was held, and it was decided that the
squad of police at Frog Lake, only seven men,
should be sent away at once, as, while too few to
protect the people in case of an attack, their pre-
sence irritated the Indiana. The people believed
they would be safe if the police were gone, and
they hurried their departure. Aa the police left
they heard the whoop of tho war-daaona in Big

THK RIKT, RKRKLMON OP IRWi.

FORT PITT.
1, RamokB, held by poline. S, Fur Store, held by poUoe. S, Hudson's Bay Honse, held by Hudson Bay men.
6, Trails from Frog Lake, OTer hills, by which scouts came. 7, RWer Banii (North Baskatchewati) 900 ynr<1s froDi fort,
which Indians wore encamped. 10, Spot where Ijoaeby and his horse were shot, and whence he ran to the fort. 11,
rirer by which police retreated. A, site of Bastion, destroyed by police. ' B,«8ito of Stables, destroyed by police.

Bear's camp. Before dawn of the following day,
the dancora, whom the Mounted Police while de-
parting had heard whooping, all Indians of Big
Bear's band of plain Crees came in a body to the
Indian agency and entered it. T. P. Quinn, the
agent, was a Sioux half-breed, who, with his
cousin Harry Quinn, had passed through all the
horrors of the Minnesota massacre, and although
married to a Cree woman was hated by the
Indians. Bad Child, a son of Big Bear, and
another rushed upstairs with the avowed pur-
pose of shooting the agent in his bed, but his
brother-in-law, Loveman, followed them and
prevented the crime by throwing himself in
front of the levelled 6re-arms. These two went
down-stairs again and the place was ransacked,
the Indians contenting themselves with the 6re-
arms in the office and the horses in the stable,
however. Travelling Spirit, one of the band,
came to the foot of the stairs, after an interval,
and called to Quinn, " Man-who-speaks-Sioux,
come down." Loveman tried to prevent his
brother-in-law from showing himself, but Quinn

went down. He was at once forced to go to the
hunse of Delaney, the farm instructor, where the
Indians wore gathering together all the whites
at the post. Travelling Spirit, Big Bear's chief
councillor, with a small party wont to the
Hudson's Bay store, where they found Mr. W.
B. Cameron, the agent who was in charge,
already up. Bad Child went into the house
alone and demanded from Cameron all the am-
munition in the store. The Mounted Police had
taken nearly all the fixed ammunition and a keg
of powder to Fort Pitt, so that Mr. Cameron, at
the muzzles of loaded guns, made no difficulty
about giving up the little that remained, and,
accompanied by the greater part of the band,
he went to the store and gave it tu them. While
he was getting it out for them Big Bear came in
and ordered the Indians not to touch anything
but to ask Cameron for what they wanted.
Several preferred requests for small articles,
which were given them, and all went out quietly.
Cameron followed to see what they were going
to do, and Travelling Spirit rushed up to him as

I, ProTlslon Store, held by police. B, Unoccupied Hnniies,

8, Brush on hill, SOO yanli bacic of fort. 9, liills Uhlnd

Spot where Cowan fell, 13, Ploushcd LamL 13, Trail to

soon as ho came out and forced him to accom-
pany him to the Indian Agency, where nearly
all the white men of the settlement had been
brought from Delaney's house.

Travelling Spirit went up to tho agent, Quinn,
and demanded : "I want to know who is the
chief of the whites in this country. Is it tho
governor of tlie Hudson's Boy ComiMiny or who ?"

Quinn, who did not take the matter at all
seriously, answered, ' ' There is a man at Ottawa
calljd Sir John A. Macdonald who is the head
of affairs. "

"Give us beef !" yelled a number of tho
Indians, and upon the rest taking up the cry
Quinn asked Delaney if he could not give them
an ox. Delaney said he had one or two, and
most of tho Indians made off to secure the
animals. So convinced were the little band that
the Indians would commit no serious excesses,
that they appear to have had no serious mis-
givings whatever. The two pnests. Fathers
Fafard and Marchand, men who had devoted
their lives to the Indians, went to their little

THK RIEIi RKBRLLION OF IfWS.

niil Ihfl Indi»n, with •

MOUNTED POLICEMAN COWAN,

Klllm\ diirlnu the Fort Tlti fngRgemont.

ohuroh, and callini; their flock tngetlier began
tli« ei'li'liralion cif thcHcrvicKof Ihoday, It wah
GimhI Friday, the 3rd nf April, and none
dreaniiit that the Kaittor nun would rine for but
few among them. The Indiana went to the
church almost in a body, but they took their
|iri«onerB, every white in the iiettlement except
Cameron and the factor's wife, Mrs. Simpson,
with them. VVith the r arms in their hands the
Indians knelt through the service, but Big Bear
and Miserable Man stood on each side of the door.
Travelling Sjiirit did not go in with the rest,
but after some time discovered Cameron trading
with some Indians at the store, and forced him
to go to the church. This man, who apiwared to
be |H>B8essed by a fiend, entered the church with
his war baton his head, his face painted yellow,
and the loaded gun with which he had already
threatened several lives, in his hand. Yet, he
too, partly knelt in the alsla After the service
the Fathers addressed the Indiana warning and
commanding them not to commit outrages or
excesses. The Indians then took the most of
the white people to Uelanoy's, and Cameron
went quietly back to his quarters and ate his
breakfast as if nil wore well. Two Indians,
Yellow Bear and a Frog Lake Indian, went
with him more as guests than guards. Big Bear
himself went into the factor's house to Mrs.
Bimpson, who had not been disturbed, and a
short interval of quiet followed. Travelling
Spirit broke in u|K>n this, by ordering all the
whites to go to the Indian camp, and those who
had remained in Delaney's house were brought
out and forced to start along the trail. Thomas
Quinn, the Indian Agent, paid no attention to
this order, but continued a conversation with
Charles Gouin, a half-breed carpenter, in front
Pritchard's house. Travelling Spirit came up
to him and said. " You have a hard head.
" When you say no, you mean no, and stick to
"it. Now, if you love your life, you will do
" what I say. Go to our camp."

Qumn, a man of magnificent physique, of
great determination and courage, and filled,
moreover, with all the oontempt which his Siooz
blood naturally gave him for the Crees, answered
nonchalantly the threat of the savage by saying,
•' Why ibould Igor

"Never mind,"
threatening geBture.

" I will not go," said the undaunted agent.
"I tell you, go I" yullul the savage, and lift-
ing hin gun, he shot (juinn through the head, so
that he fell dead.

O. (iiiuin, who had turned Inward the Indian
camp while Travelling H|iirit won siHiaking to
(juinn, was shot and killed iniiiiediately by The
Worm. The little party of white men and
w nnien who had been gathereil in Ueluney's had
gone but a short distance when the first shot
was fired. At the sound of the fatal signal,
Iiittle Bear shot the old Hootch mason, Willis-
croft, through the head. Young Harry Quinn,
who was at the rear of the little )iarty, <m see-
ing Willisoroft murdered, diHlged between his
guards, plimged into the bush and cscaiml, to
carry the news nf that bloody Good Friday to
Fort Pitt. Many of the Indians had not loaded
their guns when the first shot was fired, and
they rapidly began to charge them, while the
brave priests begged, implored and reasoned
with them. As they s|)oke the two [irieats bold-
ly placed themselvis Iwtween the Indians and
Mrs, (jowanlock and Mrs, Delaney, Suddenly
a |>arty of the Indians rushed at Delaney,
and knocked down Father Fafard, who threw
himself in front of the doomed farm instructor.
Bareneck shot Delaney, and then turning shot
the priest as he lay upon the ground. Travelling
Spirit, as thirsty for blood as a |>anther, followed
by The Worm and other Indians, rushed up at this
moment, and Travelling Spirit shot down Father
Marchand, who had thrown him-
self upon the Indians single-handed
and unarmed when he saw his fellow-
missionary shot. The ■ Man - Who-
Wins then shot and killed Delaney

and ako Father Fafard, who, terribly

wounded, lay writhing ujun the snow.
Gowanlock and his wife, who stood

hand in hand, were a little far-
ther ahead on the trail than the

first group, and The-Wonn, leav-
ing his master in

crime to deal with

the larger party,

ran forward and

shot Gowanlock

through the body.

He fell into the

arms of his yoimg

wife and died

there. Little Bear

shot Gilchrist

dead, but missed

Diel, who tore his

way through the

band and made

off. He outran

all pursuit, but a

number of the In-
dians were by this

time mounted on

stolen hones, and

he was run down

and murdered

after a long chase.

Big Bear was still

with Mrs, Simpson

when the shoot-
ing commenced,

and he ran out

shouting "atop."

Cameron, was

trading with Mia-

er»U« M»n who^

had brought him an order for a blanket signed
by (juinn, when the first nli"t was tired, and
iKitli ran out of the store. Cameron nlop|)i'd to
hick the door and an Indian ran up to him and
said, " If you H|)eak twice you are a diwl man.
( )ne man H|Kike twice and he Ih dea'l. " Cameron
turned to Yellow Bear, the Indian who had
iMt'M with him all morning, and aHkod hliii what
it all meant. Yellow Bear cauglit him by the
wriHt and said, "Come with mo," Mrs. Simp-
son came out of the factor's house at this
moment, and the Indian went on ; " (■<> to her
and do not leave her." This Cameron did, and
together they walked down the trail until they
came in sight of the main ixirty. Not one
detail of the massacre esca|>ed them. When all
was over they continued on their way toward
the Indian cam]). Mrs. SinipHon, as they
walked, kept saying, " go on faster," hv'
Cameron, seeing that esca|K3 was ini|Kissible,
never quickened his pace beyond a walk, and
afterwards he found that if he had run a step
he would have been killed. When they reache<l
the camp, one of the chiefs of the Frog Lake
band of Wood Crees, Hcstandsupbefore-him,
took them into a lodge and sunt a message to
Travelling Spirit that he was to leave Cameron
alone. Satiated with the bhxid of the men,
the Indians brought in the two women, Mrs.
Gowanlock and Mrs, Delaney, without in
any way injuring them, and they were pur-
chased from their captors by the half-breeds,
John Pritchard and Pierre Blondin, the first of
whom gave a horse and $3 for Mrs, Delaney,

BIG BEAR.
Th« CiM Chlst, and lusUfator of Fro( Lake HMsaore and Fort Fttl Attack.

TIIR KIK.I, KKHKFJilON OK IHHK.

THE BARRACKS AT FORT PITT.

Oftpt. Dickens and his CummaDd ia the foreground.— <Froin s phologrftpb.)

and the necond three horses for Mrs. Gowttnlock.
The three white women were phiced in the
charge of Fritchanl's family and closely guarded
by the half-breeds and Wood Cretg. Tlies)
Indians had no symi>athy with either the rising
or the murders, which they would havs prevpntod
if they had been able, and they were Jeter-
mined that the prisoners should
be well treated. Mr. Simpson,
the factor, returned from Fort
Pitt uimn the evening of the
massacre, and was at once made
a prisoner, but no indignities
wore offered to him and he was
allowed to join his wife.

The bodies of the dead were
thrown into the houses, which
were first rifled, and then burnt.
The Plain Crees then aban-
doned themselves to a course
of dancing and feasting, during
which the vigilance of the half-
breeds and Wood Crees alone
saved the prisoners. Two days
after the abandonment of Frog
Lake by the Mounted Police
Harry Quinn made his way
into Fort Pitt alone, unarmed,
unhorsed and greatly exhausted.
He had seen nothing more than
the first acts of violence, and for
weeks this was the only relia-
ble inforniation received as to
what had befallen the people of
Frog Lake. The most horrible
rumors as to the fate of the
women were circulated.

On receipt of this terrible
news the garriion at Fort
Pitt exerted themselves to the utmost to put
the fort, a mere collection of log houses, into
a defensible state. Bastions to flank the walls
and a stockade were constructed, and couriers
were sent out to obtain assistance if possible.
On the 14th April, a scouting party, consist-
ing of Harry Quinn and constables Cowan
•nd Louby, went out towatdi Frojp Lake

to get news, if possible, of the further move-
ments iif the Indians, and to ascertain the fate of
their captives. In their absence about a hundred
Indians made their ap|>earance upon the hills
to the bock of the fort, and a message was sent
into Cajitain Dickons, of which a rude fac simile
is here given. The publishers have the original.

BIG BEAR'S LETTER.

That night was passed under arms, and the
next morning McLean, jthe Hudson's Bay factor
at Fort Pitt, and young Dufresne went out to
parley with the Indians. About noon the retur-
ning scouts came upon the Indian encampment,
and two of them. Cowan and Loasby , made a dash
to get through it, and they did gain the crest of
the hills above the fort, but a perfect ttorm of

bullets followed them as they charged straight
for the fort. Both fell, Cowan to rise no more,
but Loasby, with two bullets in his body, sua-
cessfuUy feigned death until the Indians departed
when he managed to reach the fort. The third
scout, young Quinn, the survivor of the Frog
Lake tragedy, on the appearance of the Indiana
wheeled his horse and galloped
back towards Frog Lake closely
followed, and for a timeall know-
ledge of him was lost. The In-
dians rushed down to within
range of the fort, so eager were
they in pursuit of the scouts, and
a brisk fire was at once opened
upon them, which speedily drove
them back, McLean and Du-
fresne, who had gone out to
parley with the Indians, were
kept as prisoners. In the after-
noon a message was received
from McLean by his wife,
advising her and all the civil-
ians to come and place them-
selves under the protection of
Big Bear, who had solemnly
promised to protect all the
civilians if the police would
agree to abandon the barracks.
He also warned Capt. Dickens
that the place would be burned
down, as the Indians had pre-
pared fire balls saturated with
coal oil with which to fire the
fort. Against the wishes of
the police all the civilians, both
men and women, determined to
give themselves up to Big Bear.
~- The little party consisted of
Mrs. McLean and her nine children —three
of whom were young women, who, during the
anxious period when an attack upon the fort
was expected, bravely took their stand at [jort
holes, rifle in hand, to assist in the defence,
while some were but babes ; George Mann, his
wife, and three children ; Rev. C. Quinoy
and hi* wife, Malcolm Maodonald, Hodgson,

TRK KIKT. RKItKLMoN OK IMW.

ing ■■■any iii)()ili th«i liUxx of their
hoinim, pliiiiilori'il anil firm) l>y tlm
IiidianH, witH til Imi Nan (ruiu tli«
lurt* luui atfttiuui.

LIEUT.-COL. W. N. KENNEDY

four half-brofld f»rm laboroni, two of whom
took their fuinilioa, and tho friendly Indian,
Nakiiotan, with hia wife and child. Their fate
remained a mystery for many an anxioui weuk.
On tho oveninft of thia eventful day the twenty-
two Mnuntod I'ulicomon abandoned the fort
and criwaod the rivor. The next morn-
ing, with but little boaidea the Queen'a
oolora and their arma, they atarted in an
old ferry aoow ujion a voyage of a hundred and
twenty milea down thn fast flowing river, which
waa atill impeded with floating blocks of drift
ice, and the banka of which were in tho hands
of a mercileaa enemy. The woatlior waa cold and
inclement. During tho firat day out aeveral of
the men had their hands and feet frozen, and,
worst of all, the scow leaked like a basket, and
required constant baling by six men to keep it
afloat. Through it all, however, those indomit-
able twenty-two kept in good spirits, and found
it possible to laugh at one another's attire, and
hold on an iaiand a parade for inspection of
arms and ammunition, which they declared a
pretty "tough looking affair." At last, upon
the 22iid of April, five doys after leaving Fort
Pitt, they reached Ilattlcford, where for a week
they had been reported an missing men. The
names, which were about to be placed on the
roll of the lost, are :— lusiiector, A. J. Dickens
(son of the late Charles Dickena); Staff-Sur-
ge<in, J. B. Rolph, M.D. j Sergeant, John
Martin ; Corporal, R. B. Sleigh ; Constablea,
W. Anderson, H. Ayre, J, W. Carroll, H. A.
Kdnionda, R. Hobbs, R. Ince, F. Leduo, G.
Lionaia, C. Loasby (wounded), J. A. Haodonald,
h. O. Keefe, C. Phillipa, J. Quigley, F. C.
Roby, O. W. Rowley, B. H. Robertson, R.
Rutledge, W. W. Smith, J. Tector and F. F.
Warren.

After the Frog Lake Massacre, the settlers
all along the banks of tho North Saskatchewan
and of its tributaries the Battle and Great
Red Deer rivers, west to the Rocky Mountains,
fled to Fort Saskatchewan, a post of the
Mounted Police on the Upper Saskatchewan, to
Fklmonton, and to stations on the Canadian
Pacific Railway, for shelter and protection. Dur-

CHAPTKR V,

TBI VOLUNTKKlm llHIlKlllfll T(> TIIK
rilONT.

Tlifl nowH of tho rulHillion of the
lialfbriMMlH iif thu Siuikat<:liowan,
under thii liuidnrahip of Uirl, waa
reoeiviol with oHtnniiiliniont in Kuat-
em ('unoda. This was not duo
to luck of cloiu' waminga Re-
ports of the inuotiiiga hold at tho
difforoiit aottloments in Haskat-
ohewan territory had reochud tlio
newHi>arieni, and the fact that Uiul
waa <mo of the s)ioakors and loaders
in tho movomsiit was mentioned in
these. The famoua Bill of Rights
had been publiHhod, and its demands
diacuaaod by tho Journala. Colonel
Houghton, who had gone up to
Prince Albert to collect tho arma of
the diabandod volunteer cor|>a in that
district reported that trouble waa im-
minent. During the fall and winter
the Kngliah residents of Prince

Albert wrote to friends in the oast, stating
that Riel was at work among the half-breeds,

and reliellion was certain to break out unleaa
prompt meaaurea were taken by the Uov-
ornment to overawe tho diaaflectod. But
such an upshot seemed so improbable tliut
all warnings were completely thrown away.
The Government paid no

attention to the ag||ation

further than borrowing Fort

Carleton from the Hudson's

Bay Compafly, and increas-
ing the numlicr of Mounted

Police in the district. It

was on the 23rd March that

Sir John Macdonald, the

Premier, in reply to a ques-
tion by Mr. Blake, the

leader of the Opposition,

stated in parliament that

authentic news of the out-
break of the Metis had been

received by the Government.

The general belief at that

time was that the trouble

would be quickly put down

by the Mounted Police force,

with the aid of the volunteers

of Manitoba. The Govern-
ment acted promptly. On

tho 24th March Gen. Mid-

dleton, commanding the

Canadian Militia, was de-

Bt>atched to Winnipeg, where

he arrived on the 27th to as-
sume command of the field

force in person.

Major-General Frederick
Middleton had seen a great
deal of service in many
different Unds. In 1846, he
took part in some very active
bush fighting daring the
Maori war in Now Zea-
land, but it was during
the mutiny in India, in

1HS7 and IH.'W, whon ho Imik part In the rnllef
of Liioknow, an the aide of (lenrral Liigard
that hn won hia gr«at4<>t honoiira, and waa
rapidly pnimotod for acrviooH in the fli'ld. He
comniandad at tho akinniih at Agi'mghur, and
for having twice on that day gallantly aaved a
lifii at tho utmost riak of liiaown, hewsarecom-
mnnded by (lonnral Liiganl for tlin Victoria
Crciaa. Ilia oonipanion in one if thcao advon-
tiiroa waa givnn tho coveted honour, but (loni'ral
Middlntiin, then a captain, waa not rnconunundnd
by Ijord Clyde on the technical ground that he
was a staff offloer, and could not therefore Im
roRonimunded for the Croaa,

Aa &n officer of the now achmil hia reputation
waa high in tho service, and for aonie yoara hn
hold tho |>oaition of Comniamlantof the military
college of Sanilhurat, where, aa a lad, lin wna
uducated. Ixiaving aaide hia purely military
e«(iorience, hewaa particularly well fitti'd for the
campaign in the North-Wcat by having lived long
in Canada, and married into a vory |Mipular
French-Canadian family, the Doucetji, nf Mont-
troal, and by being well acipiaintod with tho men
ho was to command. The first battalion ordered
out was the 00th Rifles of Winniiieg, tho youngest
corps in the aorvice, but very fortunate in its
organizer. A year before it had boon created out
of aplondid material,— largely trainud men from
the eaatorn provincea,— by the late Lieut. -Col.
Kunnedy, who, at the time hia battalion waa
called out for active aervice at home, was in
Egypt as the commander of the contingent of
Canadian voyageurs. U|M>n the 25th of March
a detachment of a hundred men of thia corpa,
under the command of Major Boswell, waa hur-
ried woat to Qu'Appelle, as the fidelity of the
Indians in the Qu'Appelle valley und at the

FORT QU-APPELUE.

THK KIKF. KKBKUJON OF IWW.

TimicIiwikhI liillN wiu oimaiJcri'il ilciuiitfiil. Two
lUyH Intor, afli'r IwiiiK rovii^wiMl liy (ii'iii'rni Mill-
(lli^tim, till) rmiiuindiT of tlm Imttuli"", two
hiiiiilri'il Htriiiitf, »nil lliii WiniiiiM'K finlil i ittiiry

Witll two llilll' |HIUII<ll^l' ttOKH flilloWUll, U|MIII

llin 27tli of Miii'i'li tlm niiWH of tint iMick Iiakn
f'lKlit liml priiliuliiy rrudii'il tliii (ioviTiuiii'iit, hh
iiiilirn wviii Ikhiii iI on tliiit iluy rroiu ()itaw» to
tlm I'oiiiiniiiiilaiilH of tliu two r«K'*l»i' I'JttitrinH of
rikimilJHii urtillrry -A lit t^unlwo, anil II at
KiiiKHton to provUlo ilotikcluncnta of onn linn-
ilri'il inuii •■acli ami himhI tlipni <n at oncn.
Within ft fiiw lioiun of tlm rii-
ciii|it of tl'CHO oriliTri, early on
the iiioriiiM){ of tlm 2Hth, thu
two il»tucliiiii'ntH cniliaiki'il, unil
nnitiiiK at (Ottawa, tinilor tlio
coniniand of Lii'Ut.Col, Mon-
ti/.iunlinrt, wi'iii fairly nitcriiil
on tlioir loni; joiinmy to Win-
ni|H'Ki liy tlm Canailian I'aciHo
Railway. Tho roail north of
liakii Su|H'i'ior wan iinlinliihixl,
hut an tliiiru *t'ri) wnllfouniJiHl
approhonHionH of ditHciilty and
duluy in mtciiring thn conHunt of
tlio United Statna (Jovornmont
to thii paKKago of triNjpa over
United Htati-s ti'rritory, and aa
tlmrii wan thought to bo Boniu
dangiT of an attempt being
niaile to wreck trainx by IriHh
citizenH of thu went, who wero
HnpiHiHod to l»i in Hyinpathy
with the reluils, it wan decided
to Kond the troupa by the Can-
adian route.

Upon the 28th of March, 0.
Company School of Regular
Infantry, eighty strong, from
Toronto, and two dotachniontM
of two hundred and fifty men
each from the (iuoen's Own,
and the lOtli Uoyal Grenadiers,
wero called out for actual gor-
vico. The (Juncn's Own having,
up»m the fatal Held of Ridge-
way, received its baptism •of
blood, has always aspired to
the proud jiosition of being
ready for duty under all cir-
cumstances, and although but
short notice was given over five
hundred men fell Into lino at
the first parade. It was com-
posed abnost entirely of young
men engaged in mercantile and
professional pursuits, and its
departure brought the war home
to the jieopleof Toronto at toast.
On the 30th of March tho six
hundred mon from Toronto, the
first of the citizen soldiers of
the Kast to leave, started for-
ward by the same route as the
batteries. Lieut. -Col. Williams,
M.P., on the 29th, received a
commission to raise a provis-
ional battalion of eight com-
panies from tho Midland dis-
triot,by drawing two full com-
panies from his own corps, the
46th, and one each from the
16th, 40th, 45tb, 4Cth, 47th,
49th and 67th. On the 28th,
the 65th battalion, Mount Royal
Rifles of Montreal, Lieut.-Col.
Ouimet, M. P.. oommanding.

wero called out for aclivo norvice. On the
iWHli, l.ii'Ut4^nant. '(/'olonul O'llriun, M.l'., was
coiiiniiaxioniiil to raixn a Itattalion of eight
companii'H, by taking four conipaiiii's of thu
IC.tli (Siniciw), and four of tho 12th (York) ri-gl
nientM. I.ieut. Col. Heott, M.l'., was coniniis-
■ioned to raiiui tho Hint of tho line in WinnijH'g,
to nunilsT Hoiim four hundred nmn, and another
rnginiHiit of threu hundred men and more wan
organized in tho »mo city by Lieut, Col.
OMixirne .Smith, which was commissioned as the
(fJiiil Winnipeg Lixlit Infantry A ili'tnohment

of tifty shitriwhisilii'iH, Hi'Ieeliil from the Oovvr-
nor lieneral'a Kool (inorda, under the command
of I'iiptain Tndd, Joineil the Toronto eontingont
on the track, having l>oen riii'^'d ami sent for-
ward in an ntceedingly short tiuie. (In the llUt
of March, tho 7th of London, Lieut, (lol.
Williams, and the Uth of (juoIh'c, Col. Amyot,
M.I'. , commanding, was called out, A provi-
sional battalion was formed of detachments
from the 06th I'rincess I-ouIho Kuiiliers, tlHnl
Kifles, and tho Halifax (larrison Artillery,
imder the ai«ntnand of Lieut. -Col. .1, J.

KTAJOR-aENERAL F. D. MIDDLETON, C.B.,
Oammaiidu^ia-Clilef •( Uw Outdiui llUlUa.

•^HK niKL RKBKLLTON OF 18Rfi.

ilruiiin«r, imiiibering aiiino %iO iiicii, Imt tliU
batUlinii dill iidt aUrt fur tlio front until tliu
lltliAjiril. licHideH all tliuHU regular IxHlii'ii of
militia, a liirgB nunilKir "f men were fcirnied
into lionii! KuardH tlirini((hout tlio town, of the
NortliWcut, and «vcn in tho citiciH of tlio Knst
the votornnH of rrgimcnts liki' tho (^uoon'H Own
ami tliii Victoria KifliM cnrolli'd tlii'niHolv™ for
likn duly. In all, thn regularly enlisted forces
called out at tlic; time coniii»ted of 2«0 reffulam,
l.OfiO volunteers from Manitoba, \,iM from On-
tario, .Wi fnun (^iielxw, and 303 from Nova
Hcotia. On tliu 80tli of March, the advanco
(fuard of the !H)th marched from Qu'Ai>p<Olo
station to Kort (Ju'Appdllo, and then followed
a weary period of inaction, as it was not until
the 0th of April that A and B batteries arrived
nt 'iu'Appelle Htation, having been eight days
ni)on tli(! way. They had l»en forced to con-
tend with formidable enemies, intense cold,
bad roailH, and extreme hardships at the very
commenoimont of the campaign. Between the
westeni end of tho oaxtern section of the Canadian
Pacilio Ilailway and Jackfish Bay, some eighty
miles oast of Port Arthur, there was a gap of
one hundred and ninety miles, over a hundred
anil five of which they were carried upon open
Hat cars, and tho remaining distance, some
iiightyfive miles, they were taken in sleighs.
The labor of transhipping tho guns and stores bo
f reipiently , six timos in the gaps, was very heavy.
While tho Toronto contingent was making
its way over tho gaps the weather was bitter, and
tho suffering caused, to the Grenadiers cspeoi-
ally, who had to make long distances on foot,
was great. During the week of enforced inac-
tivity at Fort Qu'Appelle, greatly exaggerated
rumors as to the extent of the rebellion were
circulated. It was stated that the great Creo
Chieftain, Piapot, whose influenoe over the
File Hill and Touchwood Indiana was great,
and who had at one time a couple of hundred
warriors in his own band, had gone on the war-
])ath, nlthough he had not, an far as is known,
endangered bis rations by leaving his reserva-
tion. The advance guard of General Middleton's
force, a body of the 90th, «-ith some scouts,
reached the Touchwood Hills on April 8rd, and
there camped.

Upon the first tidings of the trouble at
Battleford, arrangements had been made for
a dash from Swift Current to its relief by a body
of some forty-five Mounted Police with a field
gun, under the command of Col, Herchmer.
Tlie South Saskatchewan river was found full of
drift ice, and an attempt to cross it on the first
of April failed, so that the force returned to
Swift Current, and there awaited the arriyal of
reinforcements which were by that time con-
sidered necessary to meet the besieging foroei of
Indians whose numbers were greatly exaggerated
by rumor. When the Queen's Own arrived at
Winnipeg, on the 8th of April, they were
despatched immediately to Qu'Appelle. Such
was the spirit of tho men that the hardships
endured on marches through anew with the
mercury below zero, and the breakdown of the
commisgariat, which is a matter-of-course in a
British campaign the world over, only furnished
niittter for mirth and occasion for a display of
loyalty as tho following remarkable war-song,com-
jHieed on the journey and sung at an impromptu
concert on the train as they rolled west, atteets ;
Thn ToluDtMn are all int ban and fond of lots of tun,—
But it's iuli[hty Uttio pay Ihey get fur oarrring a gun ;
The (loTernnient have grown so lean, and the O.P.B. so tat
Our extra pay we did not gei— you can bet your boots on
that!
CWw— Yuu can bet your boots on that I

Thf-y will not otpii kIvo a Htu'il thiit rt flttltiK for our drill,
For Kiilgowuy now forijottcii in, iiiid ulflo Tlgpon Hill ;
Hut MOW tht-y><- wanted Ub again, they've called ub out—

that II ttiit-
Aiiil thi- Imyi! Imvi' got to imaril thcniKjlvod,
Yon ran Ix't your iMnits on that !

To aiiiH!Xati> UH Hoinr folks irould, or lndcpeni1i<nt l>e,
Ami Miir Hir .John wouM fi-iliTiUo tin- coloniiii, I nee ;
llut lit tlhrii lilow till thi'y nri'"lilui'," and I'll throw up

my hat,
Ami kIvi' my life for Knglanil'R flog—
You can U't your hootH on that I
The llau that'll hravril n tllollRanil yrani.
You i-'an iMit your lioots on that !

From Qu'Ajjpelle they went to Swift Current
to Iwcome the nucleuH of an ex]>edition for the
relief of Battleford.

Tlieplnn of the campaign then began toanxumo
viiiililo form. Uen. Middlcton, wIioho ailvance
guard had pushed on Home'lOmilcH to the north-
ward by the Cth o.' April, took u|)on himself the

LIEOT.-COL. FORREST,
Quarter-Master to the Forces in the North-West

crushing ot the rebellion of the Metis upon the
South Saskatchewan. On its arrival at Qu'-
Appelle, A battery, Kingston, was sent to join
the 90th and the Winnipeg battery. A company
of horse, some 88 in number, raised by Major
Boulton, who had seen service in Kiel's first rebel-
lion, followed, and later still, half of C Infan-
try School and the Tenth Royal Grenadiers were
hurried forward to overtake the advance force.
To Colonel Otter, the commandant of the Tor-
onto Infantry School, and in command of the
Queen's Own, was allotted the task of relieving
Battleford, and striking at the heart of the
Indian rising in that district. B Battery,
forty men of C Company, the Queen's Own, and
the Ottawa Guards, under Captain Todd, were
assigned to him. Around Calgary, at the foot
of the Rocky Mountains, lie the reserves of the
Blackfeet nation, a confederation of tribes,
which could put fifteen hundred of the best
Indian warriors in the North-West in the field.
This confederation, comixmed of Blackfeet,
Bloods, Fiegans and Saroees, is allied with
American tribes across the border in Montana,
from where Riel had been brought, and it was
believed that he had before leaving invited
the Piegan and Blood Indiana of Montana to
aroda into Canada, join tlie Blackfeet, and after

taking the Mounted Police iKists at Fort
McLeod and Assiniboino, capture Calgary iind
destroy the Canadian Pacific Jt.i iway. Tho
leading chiefs of the Canadian c mfederation
were Crowfoot, the head of tlio nation. Three
Bulls.chief of tho Blackfeet, and Kngle Tail of tho
Bloods. Crowfoot, chief of the nation, declared
that Riel had sent him tobacco — the invitation
and signal to rise— but that ho had rejected it.
His young warriors were certainly restless and
excited, and disturbances actually occurred at
Blackfoot Crossing, where it was expected the
northern Indians, who were on the war-path,
would appear, to induce the Blackfeet to join in
the rising. It beaime necessary, therefore, to
hold Calgary and the forts and towns in that
dihtrict, with a force sufficient to awe tho
Indians, The 65th (Montreal) w< re sent to Cal-
gary, where they arrived on April 10th, They
were put under Major-General Strange, who had
already raised a company of scouts in tlio
district. As Calgary was tho point on tho
railway nearest to Edmonton, it became tho
base of an expedition for tho reliof of that place,
which General Strange was commissioned to
organize. The Commissariat department was
placed under the charge of that veteran officer,
Major-General Laurie, who had been among the
first to offer his services. Owing to the bad
condition of the prairie trails, the question of
transport was a most important one, and an
immense number of teains was required. It was
determined, if possible, to use the South Saskat-
chewan river, which opens generally l)etween the
1st and the 16th of April, for the forward-
ing of supplies to General Middleton's column.
As soon as the trouble arose. Sir A. T.
Gait placed the r.teamers "Alberta," "Bar-
oness" and "Minnow," which were on tho
river, at the disposal of the Government,
and the steamer "Northcote" was started from
Medicine Hat as soon as it was possible to
get her into i.-im after her winter's rest. Upon
April 8th, she began her "oyage, which proved
to be one of tho most adventurous ever under-
taken by a steamboat. The " Nortlicoto " is
a flat-bottomed stem-wheeler, of about two
hundred tons burden, and is the property of
the Hudson's Bay Comjianv.

It is worth recording, before closing this
chapter, on the calling out of the volunt.eer8 and
tho forwarding of them to the front, that within
one month of the breaking out of the rebellion,
a force of over 3,000 men of all branches of the
service had been called out and transported, tho
greater portion more than 1,800 miles and the
remainder 2,S00 miles, and in addition nearly
1,600 men had been raised in Manitoba and the
west. Not one-tenth of the militia force avail
able was called out, and there was not a corps
in the Domimon which was not anxious to go.

CHAPTER VI.

BIATINO CF THI HITIB.

The ta«k of the First Division was to strike
at the heart of the rebellion, and, as each day
that Riel remained unconquered brought him
recruits and made the Indiana more restless,
there waa no time to be lost in administering
the blow. The distance from Qu'Appelle
station to Batoche, the stronghold of the rebels,
waa two hundred and thirty miles. The trail, or
line of march, was for most of the distance over a
prairie which the melted snow had converted

•««.

Bagi^iiliBadi£^

THK niKL REBELLION OF 1S85.

into ADoaked Hpniigu, ami in (iluvt'H tlii-ru w«ru
alkali »Wttiii|)« which destroyud thu iiien'u bi)oU
and injured their feet. The wmither was
wretched, ruin fiillinf; lieavily at timcH duringf
tl>« day and thd tciiniicratimj beint; frequently
below freezing and even at tinieH heh)w zero at
night. To imsh rajiidly on nnder the-su eircum-
Btances and to fiijlit an invisil)lo enemy, whose
n\iniberH could oidy be conjectured, known to
be aharpsliootcrH almost to a man, was work

whole diviHion, com|>oaed of the remainder of
the 90th (WinniiKsg), thelst half of C Company,
the Winnipcjf Field Battery and A Battery
(Quebec), brigaded under Colonel Montizani-
bert, the 10th (ircnadiers (Toronto), and Boul-
ton's Mounted scouts, under Colonel (Jrassett,
were on the way between Qu'ApjMjUe and
Touchwood. Four hundred horse teams trans-
ported the baggage and supplies of the force.
From Touchwood to Humboldt, a station where

South .Saskatchewan river. The trail to Clarke's
Crossing was followed, and the pdvancu force
cam|H<d for the ni^ht 25 miles west of Humboldt,
at Vcnnilion T^ake. Fire signals blazed on the
hills to the north and the west, showing that the
troops had reached the enemy's country, their
presence was known and their movements
watched. At Clarke's Crossing there were a
couple of ferry scows, and as it was but forty-
five miles from Batocho it was believed tho

calculated to test the endurance, pluck and
skill of the finest trained and seasoned troops.
The little force which General Middleton
led was composed of the citizen soldiers of
the Dominion— volunteers, all of them young,
many of them not welt out of their teens. The
fint advanco was made on April 0th by a de-
tachment of the 90th (Winnipeg) and thirty
scouts under Captain French. They reached
Touchwood on April 10th, by wliich date tho

CLARKE'S CROSSING.

Thn flnt of the Fipedition st tbo Saikatchewan.

a large quantity of Ciovemment stores lay,
which it was feared might be seized by the
enemy, the distance was 78 miles, the weather
was bad and salt bogs had to be passed, but it
was done in four days. Though only sixty-
three miles from Batoche, the reliels had not
disturbed the Humboldt settlement. There the
trail forks, one path continuing almost due
north to Batoche, the other leading west along
the telegraph route to Clarke's Crossmg on tl.o

rebels would seize it, destroy the scows and at-
tempt to prevent the troops from crossing. Next
morning, with tho intention of anticipating
them, a dash over the thirty-eight miles was
made in eight lunirs by French's scouts, C
Company and a few men of A Battery, and
Clarke's Crossing was safe. Though tho men
had marched thu whole distance in eleven
days — had travelled, wet or dry, twelve hours,
averaging twenty-one miles, a day— they were

TIIK RIFL REITfXLION OF 1R8S.

impktinnt to i>u«h on to Bfttocln'. A lialt
was nncflwMry, liowi'Vi-r, to allow tlir otliiT
detachment of tho diviiiion to coiiio up, mul
the niipplies of the atlviiiicii forci' with K't-
ting low. Be«ide«, wimo infnrmfttion rcKftrdinR
the (liiipoiiition and Htrcn^th of tho r.liclM hod to
bfl (fainnd Ixifore tlin cinniiiii(fn boyoiid Clarke's
OmiwinK could \>e prosccutifl. Li ki' many othor
(ien^ralK, Middlofon had to coinii to a dociHion
H'hethiT he should divide a Bniall force, The
relx'ls hild Iwth BideH of the river at the cross-
injfH below Clarke's. If Middlcton marched in
undivide<l force up the eatt side then they
might withdraw to the wont, destroy the ferry
and op|)o«o his crosning. The liaiiku of tlie
river were very high. They were well wooded
on the west, and l>aro on the east side, so that
from nnder cover of the bush the insurgents
could •>p|uHe Huccoxgfully a much i:uperiur force
fully ex|His«<l while approaching the river and
crossing in the ojien. Though knowing well
that his course would be sharply criticized,
(ieneral Middleton determined to divide his
column into two divisions and advance upon
Isith sides of the river. To arrange detaiU,
and transis)rt the half-division and stores across
the river after the arrival of the last detachment
consumed time.

On the 17th the 10th Grenadiers came into
camp, thuif completing the force, and with them
came supplim, though not in largo quantities.
Having left (Ju'Apiielle on the 10th, they had
marched the whole distance in seven days, and
were entitled to a rest, having performed a feat
of which any soldiers might be proud. The
same day a reconnaissance was made by a body
at Boultou's horse, under the command of Lord
Melgund. This young nobleman, the military
secretary of the (Jovernor-Oeneral, had volun-
teered for service from the first, and had been
given theronkofLieut. -Colonel. Heis theeldest
son of the £arl of Minto, the head of the
great border clan of Elliots, is a gallant
rider, and a soldier who had seen war in
various capacities and in many countries. He
took part in a Carlist rising in Spain ; was in the
Turco-Kussian war ; served as a volunteer in
the Afghan war and also in Egypt, where, during
the campaign of Tel-el-Kebir, he commanded a
company of Mounted Kiftes with honor. He
was therefore, by inclination, by experience,
and by training well fitted for the work he was
given. The men whom he commanded were
f|uite as well fitted for their duty as their leader.
Young English and Canadian farmers from the
Birtle district, they had volunteered almost at
once, and, armed with small bore Winches-
ter rifles, uniformed in duck-sbooting-jackets,
mounted up<m Indian imnies that could live
upon the prairie, they were a force fit to go any-
where and do anything, as they proved through-
out the war. On this occasion they had not
been out of camp more than an hour, when they
came uiwn a news{>aper pinned to the bark of a
tree, with markings uiwn it, that bore some faint
resemblance to a drawing of three Indians, A
few minutes after three Indians were seen try-
ing to creep down a coul^ They were quickly
surrounded, but instead of surrendering they
made a bold stand, and, with their Winchester
rifles at the present, were ugly customers to
approach. Lord Melgund hailed them, prom-
ising them safety, and after some talk they
came out. They were Teton Sioux of White
Cap's band, a portion of an American tribe,
which had taken part in the massacre in
Minesota some years ago, and had fled to
Canada. Their chief and his baud went

with Riel, but very few other Indians had
joined him. One of them was sent back to
Kiel's camp with a message to White Cap
that if the seven prisoners, known to bo in
Kiel's hands, were brought safely into camp,
SlOO reward would be given. The only re-
liable information that had been received from
Prince Albert for some time was a message
brought in by Frank Hourie, the son of a
Government interpreter, and a young man who,
by his deeds of daring, has earned for him-
self a high place in thii record of this war. He
left Humboldt, on the 28th March, with a mes-
sage from the General to Colonel Irvine. On
Monday, the 30th, he reached Clarke's Crossing,
when he found that the river had broken up.
He attempted to swim across amidst the blocks
of drifting ice, of which the river was full, and
was nearly drowned before ho turned back. He
tried again at night, however, and was success-
ful. Having left his horse on the south bank ho
was forced to walk to Prince Albert, which he
reached on Thursday and delivered his des-
patches. He found Colonel Irvine safely en-
sconced in a log fort, with a body of some eight
hundred men at his command, half of whom
were well armed. Thesettlers from the neighbor-
hood had fled to Prince Albert for refuge, leaving
cattle and grain behind them, so that, with the
augmented population to feed, supplies were
growing scanty. It was because of this infor-
mation, which reached him at Touchwood, that
the General was anxious to push on. Although
no exertion was spared, it was not till the 22nd
April that the advance took place. Meanwhile
the various eastern corps called out later had

THE STEAMER " NORTHCOTE '

been slowly making their way through the wil-
derness north of Lake Superior to Winnipeg.
The Midland regiment arrived at Winnipeg on
the 14th April, and were sent on to Qu'Appelle
almost at once. The York and Simcoe battalion
followed them, and the 9th (Quebec), which had
arrived at Winnipeg on the 12th April, were
sent to garri,sou Fort McLeod and Gleichen in
the Calgary di.strict. Colonel Scott's battalion,
tlio Olst (Winnipeg), were despatched to Fort
Qu'ApiMiUe on April 16tli, for the purpose of
awing the Indians and half-breeds of the val-
ley, and of guarding the line of communication
with the fort. The Governor-General's Body
Guard and the Quebec School of Cavalry, the
first bodies of enlisted horse called out, were
also in Winnipeg by April 20th, and they were
brigaded with the Winniiicg cavalry, making a
mounted force of two hundred men. It was
found almost impossible to transport sufficient
supplies over the prairie trail to Clarke's Cross-
ing, and the South Saskatchewan being now
open, it was determined to move the base of sup-
plies to Swift Current, and use the steamers on
the route to coiivoy the supplies down the South
Saskatchewan from the landing north of Swift
Current to Clarke's Crossing. The steamer
"Northoote" arrived at Saskatchewan Land-
ing, the port of Swift Current, on April 14th,
and preparations were at once mode for her trip
down the river. There arrived at Swift Current
about this time two Gatling guns, ordered from
the Gatling Arms Company, of New Haven, Ct.,
and sent on under the charge of Lieut. Howard,
of the Connecticut State militia, who was des-
tined to distinguish himself in the campaign.

L, ^Mil I I ill II

TUB KIKL IIEBKLLION OI' 1883.

vil-

LEAVING MEDICINE HAT.

CHAPTER VII.

ottsb'u uahch.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Otter was given
the coHUnand of tlio Second Division, wSioso
work was the relief of Battleford. He is a
Canadian whoso military training has been
entirely gained in the Canadian militia. In
1862 he joined the Queen's Own as a private, and
distinguished himself even then by his intense
interest in military matters. In 1864 he carried
his colors in a Provisional battalion on the
Niagara frontier. Ho was soon t le adjutant of
the Queen's Own, and in 1875 became its Colonel.
From the duties of this position, made by his
own devotion an onerous one, he retired to
take the command of the C Company of regulars,
and the Toronto Infantry school. This was his
first exiierience of active service in command,
and he set forth with the inestimable advantage
of being known and admired by the greater
part of his little force. The first advance from
Swift Current, the station on the Canadian
Pacific which had been selected as' the base of
the movement, was made u|)on th 12th of April,
when a body of forty-five Mounted Police, under
Colonel Herchmer, moved forward to Saskatche-
wan Landing. During the short period that
intervened between the arrival of the force and
the advance, an immense amount of vork had
been done in collecting transiwrts. On the
morning of the 13th the little force fell into
column of route and the march commenced.
The force was comiwsod as follows : — C Com-
pany, under Lieutenant Wadmore, 43 strong ;
B Battery, Major Short, 112 men with two

Stm. "AlU^rta," "iiitfuneaa" uid "Miuuow."

9-pounders, and two Uatlings in charge of
Lieutenant Howard of the C.S.M. ; the Ottawa
Sharpshooters, Captain Todd, 50 ; Ciuoon's Own,
Lieut. Col. Miller, 285 men. On the evening
of tho 14th April they stood on the crest of a
high bluff, below which spread out a stretch of
undulating bcoken country, at tho verge of
which ran tho broad waters of tho South Sas-
katchewan, sweeping closely to tho bold north
bank. The steamer " Northcoto " was found
awaiting the troops, and a despatch was received
from General Middleton ordering Lieutenant
Howard with one of the Catlings to accompany
the " Northcote" down tho river to Clarke's
Crossing, there to join the First Division.
Owing to tho high wind which prevailed, and
to other causes, the tfisk of ferrying the troops
and supplies over tho river occupied tlireo
days, and it was not until the 18th that
the advance from the north bank began. From
that time there was no delay. One hundred
and ninety teams had been collected, and tho
foot soldiers were each provided with a seat in a
waggon, so that the fighting material was not>
worn out by hard marching. For miles the
route lay along a fine trail over a treeless
prairie, and the march was without incident.
At night the waggons were formed in a hollow
square and bound together with roi>eB. Inside
tho laager thus formed the horses were fastened,
and the tents were pitched without the square, so
that all danger of the horses being stamjieded
was effectually avoided. So bare of timber is
this section of the country that wood for
fuel had to be transported alimg with otlier
necessaries, and the supply running short, no fire

could be had one
night, greatly to
the discomfort of
tho men. Wag-
gons were sent
ahead to a creek
to bring kick
the iioplar trees
which, on prai-
riee, grow only
on the banks of
»t r e a m s. No
human being
was seen on tho
whole march.
The total dis-
tance by trail to
be covered be-
tween Swift Ctir-
rent and Battle-
ford was 202
miles, and on the
18th they had
completed 32^
miles of this dis-
tance. On tho
morning of tho
23rd, eighty of
the Queen's Own
were mustered
for skirmish
duty, and the
Mounted Polico
were off far in
advance of tho
column — for, at
last, the column
was about to en-
ter the bush and
broken land of
the Eagle Hills,
where the In-
dians might be expected. It was three o'cl(H:k
in the afternoon, and the excitement attendant
upim the discovery of nine cart loads of goods
which had been abandoned by a freighter, unable
to reach Battleford sometime before, had died
away, when the order came to tho skirmishers
to full back, and ths guns were ssnt to tho
front on the gallop^ There was nothing
from tho head of the column to cause alann,
however, but a long way to tho front the Muunt-
ed Police scouts wero having their little affair
with the enemy, Charles Ross, a member of
the police force and a scout, who in this cam-
paign rivalled the mythical doings of tho Leath-
er»«tocking heroes, was riding far in advance of
tho column with soma six or eight men of the
Mounted Polico, when he saw a body of about
fifteen mounted Indians some distance ahead.
Four of them advanced a short distance to-
wards the police, as if in doubt as to who they
were. After sixty or seventy shots had been
exchanged between the two parties, the Indians
made off, leaving behind a cart-load of provis-
ions, but no dead. On Friday the scouts were
pushed forward to explore the reserve of the
Stoney Indians, through which that day's route
lay, but not an Indian was to be seen. They
found, however, thebodyof the murdered Payne,
and that also of a young Indian woman, who
had been murdered, probably for attempting to
save tho instructor. All that day the column
marched through wo<xled country, but without
encountering the enemy, and at last, just at
nightfall, the white homes of Battleford gleam-
ed out under the last rays of the sun, and the
goal of the expedition was almost reached.

THB KIEL REBELLION OF 1885.

Th« iirdor In ciiiiip wiw given, linwever, and
tho iiii'n, who wcri! iiicmt unxiinw ti> dash on
to Battlefurd, ijitctic^d tlii!ir U'litii. During
that night of iHuwivii c'xcitcinent Imt f«w hlept.
Bhiitn wiTu lifurd to tho iicrtli alxmt iiinp, and
a iMxiy rif |Hihci> wi'nt nut ti> find that jhotii hotl
Ix^'n «xchimK''l l".twifn tlio ncmitu unci tho
I iii'tiiy. A ciiiipli' '<{ doiwl Indiana who»« bodioH
wiri' found uvtit nmrning was tho rPHult. Then
ciinii' a liiiist «if fire fri)m tho iinrth, and it was
li'/ii'iii'd that It waB Jiidgu Kimh^au'H house, tiio
(iiHiit ill tlir north, that was burning. An hoUf's
iimrrh next morning brought thera to tho di»-
111,'iiith'd town (if Old Battlefurd, and as soon as
tlif (irry iutohh the Battle river could be worked
a party of oihcirs croKHwl to the Fort, while the
camp was pitched iM.'side the old Government
olticisoii the south side of the river. Sad news
grouted the trooiis on their arrivaL On tho oven-

CH.VPTKU VIII.

THK BATTLE OF riSH CRIKK.

At last the delay in the advance which had
fretted the men of tho First Division was over,
and on the morning of the 23rd of April tho
camp liroko np, tho whole force, divided into
two col'irans, proceeding northward along l)oth
banks of the river. Though tho columns wore
separated by tho river they were to keep as
nearly as possible abroast for mutual support,
one of the ecows being brought down the river
for the purpose of ferrying either column across
at need. The coiumne were as nearly as possible
of the same strength in all arms. That on the
east bank, which was jnost likely to moot tho
enemy in force, General Middleton commanded
in jiorson. It was composed of 90 men of A
JJattory with two guns, 40 men of C Company,

plans miscarried in some unexplained way, a
night attack would have been made, and in the
confusion that would probably have ensued with
a force made up of men who had never boon
under fire, many would have been massacred.
While Dumont and his half-breeds in the ravine
were awaiting vainly the arrival of reinforce-
ments which would have enabled thom to curry
out their plan, the night wore away and tlie
sentries instead of giving a hurried night alarm
wore cheerily calling * ' all's well" to one another.
On the following morning the march was re-
sumed, Boultou's Horso furnishing tho mounted
scouts and the advance guard, accompanying
which, contrary to tho usual practice, was the
General commanding and his staff. The morn-
ing was a bright, sunny one ; tho prairie, which
a few days before had been covered with snow,
was now clad with verdure and flowers, yellow

BATTLEFORD BARRACKS,
Which Poundmaker attacked, and wberu ho is now a Prisoner.

ing of the 22nd, when the usual relief of the
pickets took place, Frank Smart, when about
three miles to tho went of the Fort iwrforming
out|H)8t duty with a Mounted Policeman, was
shot dead by an ambushed savage. His com-
imnion galloped in with the news, and that
night was passed under arms. Mr. >Smart was
a young merchant of Battloford who had risked
his life to carry tho news or tho trouble to Swift
Current, and liis death produced annost painful
impression. Next day Ross brought them word
of Otter's approach, and there was much joy
among the crowded (wpulntion of the Fort.
Within its narrow bounds there were 660 per-
sons when it was relieved. Cnl. Otter had
commenced his military careeros a field officer
by carrying a force of over five hundred men, a
distance by trail of one hundred and sixty-six
miles in five days, or at the rate of 33 miles a day.

60 men of Boulton's Horse, and the 90th hat-
talion 300 strong, or 480 men in all. That on
tho west bank was under command of Lieut. -Col,
Montizambert, with Lord Melgund as chief of
his staff. It was made up of 25 of French's
scouts, 20 of Boulton's Horse, 32 of A Battery,
52 of the Winnipeg Field Battery with two
guns, and the 10th Royal Grenadiers 250 men,
in all 375 men. Tho first day's march was an
uneventful one, but the scouts were kept well
out as it was known that the enem^ was not far
off. After the hard day's march of 18 miles
the camp of the right column was pitched on the
bank of the Saskatchewan within a few miles of
a wooded ravine, where only a few days before
a scout had taken shelter from the rebels when
on his way back from Prince Albert with mes-
sages. Tho men slept soundly after their hard
work, in fancied security. Y et, had not the rebels'

and purple, growing in profusive variety. The
men step|)ed out cheerily undor these influences.
Suddenly rifle shots rang out, and in a few
minutes Captain Wise, one of the General's
aides, galloped into sight witti an order for the
batteries to come forward into action and tho
main body to follow. The scouts, who had been
thrown well out on the advance, rode back with
the report that the enemy were posted in a
lightly wooded bluff on each side of tho trail
where it Jed into a ravine, which was also held
by the enemy, A baud of the rebels, mounted,
had followed the scouts over the ridge, but
General Middleton, sending his order back by
Wise, did not withdraw, but riding to one side
made way for the passage of Boulton's scouts
who charged the enemy. After a few hasty
shots the mounted body of the enemy, with a
loud shout, retired, and shortly after the under-

■vir:

THE RIEL REBELLION OF 1885.

Ill

brush and croat nf tho ridgo was liiiod with
Hkiriuighera whci began at once an irregular and
haruHHing fire. Major Boulton at once din-
mounted his inon and in Hkirmiahing order they
began to creep up un the low ridgo and the
adjacent copses. Tho sharpshooters of the 90th
formed the front of tho main body, and they at
once began to extend and get forward, beginning
thoir fire, in fact, before they reached tho scouts'
line. With a rush tho guns then came up,
under Captain Peters, and unlimberod at the
foot of the linos J the A Battery men, wlio were
serving as infantry, forming on either side of
thorn as a overing force. Then came tho
gleam of white and scarlet, as C ComtJany came
up the trail in oloso order with the jioculiar
steadiness of regulars, and took up thoir jiosi-
tiiin on tho right of tho guns. As they extended,
taking cover in tho bush, the
guns opened fire with shrap-
nel shell, which were dropjied
just behind the oi)posing
ridge. Thick and fast the
bullets whistled round tho
gunners' oars as they worked.
Two companies of the 90th,
under Major Boswell, wore
tho next troops to cnnie up
and they took their position
to tho left. Lying down they
opened fire, and tho remain-
ing tiiree companies also
turned to the left and ex-
tended, Bu that in a few
moments a line of battle half
a mile in length had been
formed. Tho shrapnel fired
by the guns had a very per-
ceptible effect utwn the rebel
6re about the centre of the
position, and Boulton's Horse
took advantage of this to
press onward, and here some
of his men fell,— Captain
Gardner being the first, with
two bullets in his body.
Tho whole fighting line
then slowly followed up the
Horse, and uiran tho left B
and C Companies of tho 90th
outflanked the rebel lino, and
gained tho ridgo. They ,"'

then saw before them an ■■■,'''■

ofion stretch of prairie, in . v

the centre of which was , , _ ' '
evidently a deep coulde, be-
hind which wero several
houses, A shell from tho
guns, which dropped in the
rebel lines, finished this
imrtion of the fight, and tho ridge and bush
were abandoned, the rebels falling back into
tho couMe, the General himself gaining the
ridgo on the loft just as tho last body of rebels
disappeared in tho ravine. In leading up his
company across tho trail in the little rush that
brought the Rifles up to Boulton's Horse and
secured the ridge, Captain Clark fell while
cheering on his company. His fall produced
tho first symptoms of unsteadiness among the
men. The fight had now been waged for
half an hour and the rebels liad been driven
from their first position in the wooded bluffs on
each side of the trail. A volley or two was
delivered from the ridge and then the line
advanced steadily across tho open to the
couliSe which it was evident the rebels held in
strength. Then, and only then, tho existence

of tho ravino became apparent. Tho banks,
which were of soiuo height, fell away quitu
rapidly, and, though precipitous in some places,
wero overywhoro lightly wooded, except uihju
tho very crest of the ridgo, fmni which tho
|>rairie fires had burned the growth of young
trees. U|Hin the loft, at tho siKit where tho lust
of tho enemy had disappoarud, tho s1o[m) was
more gradual. It was hero that ono of tho most
plucky dashos of tho day w,ih made at a later
period. Through tho bottom of tho couh'o,
which was quite boggy, a small stream could be
seen, and tho only sign of lifo w,-is a group of
Indian ponies tied to tho small poplars at its
edge, C Company was thrown boldly for-
ward to tho right and gut some cover upon the
edge of tlio slope at this point, from which they
could pour a hoavy fire down tho ravine, but tho

LORD MELGUND.

rebels poured in such a heavy cross fire from an
arm of tho ravino which stretched to tho south,
and from a couple of houses and the bush in tho
rear, that the position becamo untenable, and
the men wore ordered to withdraw. In falling
back thoy underwent a galling fire, which killed
one and badly wounded two oil three of thorn.
Along tho whole face of the'ravine, which had
been occupied by tho 90th, Artillery and Boul-
ton's horse, the showing of a head was sure to
draw the fire of a dozen rifles of the unseen enemy,
to which the troops could make no effective re-
8i)onso. So tho fight went on, with no dccisivo
results. All along the lino of the ravino men
were being hit tc the tunc of the constant rattle
of the rifle fire, interrupted at times by the pe-
culiar sharp, barking call of tho Indians, and
drowned now and again by tho boom of tho

guns and the crushing oxplosinn of tho shrap-
nel and connnon shell, which were l>eing thrown
into tho rnvinu and aon ss it at tho houses on
the opposite Ixink. C Company, admirably
handled by Major Smith, succeeded in chocking
the advance of tho rebels in their front, and a
couplo of shells from Drury's gun, which had
been brought round from the left for tliat pur-
[lOHo, fired a couple of houses on the oxtrenio
right and dislodged a lK>dy of rolwls who wero
endeavoring to turn the right flank. At noon
tho ravino was still in possession of tho
insurgents, and tho batteries ccnild not,
with tho guns, feel tho enemy, and shell
after shell had no offect in silencing
their fire. Captain Tetors therefore volun-
teered to load a dash of that portion of A
Battery not doing duty with the gims into tho
ravine, to clear it by a
struggle at close quarters if
possible. At the head of
his men he rushed down tho
8lo[>e on the left through a
hail of bullets, He found
himself, however, unable to
do anything but send hisnion
to find cover as well as they
could in the bottom of the
ravine. Not a single rebel
was to be seen, and the steep
banks wore not to bo scaled.
The enemy who wero on tho
edge of tho ravino above
them, though out of sight,
fired uiHin them, and it
seemed as if not a man
would escajH) with his lifp.
Though many slight woimds
wero roi;oivod, and clothes
wero pierced, only one man.
Cook, was shot dead. When
under cover of agun the men
fell back, they were forced
to leave his body where ho
had fallen. Another attempt
was made to storm tho rebels*
position by B and C com-
panies of the 90th, under
Major Boswell, but they,
too, wore forced to fall back,
leaving one man dead upon
the field. About ono o'clock
tho gims wore sent down
under Captain Fetors, by the
aloyie on tho left, and up tu
the other side of the ravine
to shell the rebels out of
the angle on the right, which
was already known as the
" Hornets Nest." After fir-
ing a ninnber of rounds of shrapnel into this
angle they returned in safety, not having
lost a man, though under a constant fire
both going and returning. Meantime Colonel
Montizambert's column on tho west bank,
which was four miles back when fire was
opened, wero hurrying forward in tho direction
of tho noiso of battle, when they were met by a
messenger from General Middleton ordering tho
Batteries with tho guns and the 10th Royals to
cross the river and to come into action. It won
four o'clock in the afternoon when tho main
body of this column came upon tho field and
tho fight was practically over. Tho Royals and
C Comi>any wore sent to relieve the skirmishers
of the 90th, who had been fighting all day, and
the guns were sent to the rear. For an hour the
firing continued in a desultory way, when, a«

THK KIEL RKBKI,LI(»N OF ISaV

night wnsconiiiiK <'n, it liocatiie nccixHary ritlivr
t<) iirdflr a clittrKi'inl') tlwraviiiuor tu witliilrttw.
An u clmrKS wax likely tn Im attended with con
■ideralili' Iomi and it wan diHiiii'd eaHJer tu ntarvu
the rebi'lM nut if iiiTcnsary, tlio UoyalB and C
Ciiinpaiiy, whocmisidrird theiiiwIviKdnnocmtof
their nlia™ »f the ti(,'liliiiKi riitind with extrriiio
reluctaiifc, tliiiii(,'h a raiii-Htorin, the second ipf Iho
day, won cMniinK mi. Am they did »" a remark-
al)le in(-ident, hut one apparently well authen-
ticated, ti/ok phice. Iliiurie, tho interpreter iif
tlie fcirce, advanced to the edge of tho ravine
and called out to ihu relM-ln lielow :
" la tialiriel Duniont there?"

All through the various fortunes of the day
the conduct of tliodenvral had been such as to
arouse in his men the moat enthusiastic admira-
tion. From the first, he was everywhere at the
front, riding along the very crest of the ravine,
and doing all he possihly could to keep his men
out of the danger he himself sconied. Many
of till! casualties that took jilace were, in fact,
the effect of the men's desire to have a shot at
the enemy, which led them to advance reckless-
ly down the sIoijc (jf the ravine. When leading
the men up tu the low rolling ridge where the
reliels made their first stand a bullet passed
through the Uencral's cap. Turning tu the men

ever seen war. The camp had been pitched
betwen the trail and the river, some distance to
tho rear, and, as the Urenadiers approaclied it,
a party of mounted men burst out of the little
clump of trees t>ehind the ridge from which they
had first apiwared in tho morning and wIkmiihhI
as if in triumph. At the time it was thought
that this defiance presaged a desperate fight
ui)on the morrow, but later events showed that
it was mere bravado on the part of the last
holders of the position, for the rebel force had
been melting steadily away all day. When the
camp was reached, in the midst of a heavy down-
jjour of rain, there was but little of the glow of

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" Yes, what do you want with me ! "'

" Have you got many ineu ?

" Yes, a great many. "

" Will you have a meeting with me ? I am
Hourie."

There was no answer to this, and Hourie, turn-
ing leisurely , came back safe, A loud voice was
heard at times saying: "Couruge met Brave*."
One man, at whom none could get a good shot,
though many distinguished him as the man with
the red band around his hat, was pretematurally
active, and his rifle did frightful execution.
This WM believed to be Gabriel Dumunt, the
lighting man of the Metis,

FISH CREEK.

Hap of the field uf buttle o{ tho 31th of April.

of the 90th, who, as they ran up, were, naturally
enough, ducking their heads to tho music of the
whistling balls, the General cried : "Holdup
your heads, men I Had I been stooping, that
bullet would have gone through my brain."
indeed, General Middleton was severely criti-
cised for being in the front of the lines during
the action, and exposing himself recklessly. His
defence was that he considered it necessary to
do so, in order to encourage young troops under
6re for the first time, and also to ensure the
executiim of his commands, which be dare not
entrust to the inexperienced officers under him,
none of whom, «ith one or two exceptions, had

battle in the men who had fought so long and
so bravely, and when the lists of dead and wound-
ed were made up the cost in human life of this
apparently resultless struggle, was such as to
deepen the gloom. Out of a total of about S.'iO
men actively engaged during the heat of the
struggle 43 were either killed or wounded. Of
these ten were killed. The official list publish-
ed after the battle v/as as follows :

90TB BATrALlON.

A Company— Private Hutchioson, killed in the flnt
charge ; Private Ferguson, killed in the first charge ;
Private MaCthews, left arm broken ; Captain Fekler,
shot in the arm and band ; Private C, Kemp, shot in
the groin.

191

tHR RTEL RKBELLTON OB' ISflS.

n Coinpany-rrivnto Whpclnr, ViWcA ; Trlvati' Hwnin,
•lightly woiindeil In tli« arm ; Privatn Jurvin, twii HliKlit
wnundn; Frlvnlo Tjivcl, wotinti In tlio RhnuUler;
frlvats JoliiiHoii, Hllg)itly wniiiulcil.

CCompftny— LIciit. Swliifnitl, wound in l»min ; Capt.
Ijethorl)y, wound inlrn'RHt; Pilvatu Cwln, wound Inlri^;
Private ClinnilHTH, Hiiglit wound In neck; Priviito Can-
ulir, wound In anu.

O Company- Private Ennia, killed; Corid, Bowdon,
■liglitly wonndwl,

P Company— Capt. Clark, wounded In baek while
movlni; froni one Idiilf to another. The hullet followed
the rib around to the front niul wuh found in IiIh elothos.
Private Ue«lop. arm fmelnrod; Private A. Blackwood,
alightlywouudcilln thit;h,

A nATTERV,

Garrison Division— Gunner Honney Dcmannally, kill-
ed; Gunner Cook, killed; Gunner Morrinon, twdly
wounded: Gunner AInaworth, hadly woundetl; Scrgt-
Major Mawliinney, right arm broken ; Gunner Aslln,
wounded; Gunner Irvine, woinided in thigh; Gunner
Woodman, wonnded in shoulder ; Giumer Langrcll,
wounded In arm ; Gunner Oulllett,
wounded in shoulder.

Mounted Division — Driver Turner,
wounded iu cheek; Driver Wilson, right
arm broken ; Diiver Harrison, flesh wound
In neck,

COMPANV, INrANTBY RcnOOI.,

Col,-8ergt, Cuniblings, flesh wound in
leg; Private R. Jones, arm fractured;
Private II. Jones, shot through the Jaw ;
Private R. II. Dunn, bad wuuud in ami
and hand, shot twice ; Private Walaon,
killed.

HAJon boultoh's iiobse.

Captain Gardner, two slight wounds ;
Trooiicr James Longford, two slight
wounds ; Trooper Perlns, arm broken ;
Trooper King, two wounds iu leg ;
Troojier Darey Baker, very serious wound
In chest ; Bergt. Stewart, slight wounds
in the car and hands.

Botli the Gonoral's nidea-de-cainp,
Lieutenant ]')(>iicet and Gapt.Wii<«,
who had acted thrimghout the day
in the most gallant and fearlesx
manner, were wounded, the first in
the arm, the second in the ankle and
ahoiilder.

Upon the following morning, the
90th were ordered out, but not an
enemy was to be seen. In the
ravine were fifty or sixty dead
poniea, killed by the Bhells, and
four dead rebels — all Indians — were
also found. The secret of the
stiength of the position was then
discovered; at the edge of the
ravine were finely formed rifle pits,
and so well laid out that the wonder was
that the struggle had not been more disas-
trous. Their broad end pointed up the hill

mand, and he wont out with the avowed purpose
of cutting off nno column of General Middleton's
forces, and only i)roparod the ravine for defence
in case he should bo driven from the field. His
advance guard was attacked by overwhelming
forces, but hold its own until the line of battle
had been formed, and, after a brisk half hour's
fight, his first position was carried all along the
line. The enemy then foil back into the ravine
and made a desi>erate attempt to turn the right
flank of the troops. This was fnistrated, but two
attempts to carry the ravine by assault failed.
Both sides then abandoned the field of battle,
and the Metis loft some of their dead, the sad-
dles and bridles on their dead horses, and
a number of arms in the rifio pits. From the
best sources of information obtainable it is
believed the rebel loss was eleven killed and
eighteen wounded.

Gabriel Uumont supplied the rebel govern-
ment with a masterly written accoui t of the

person was hurt by them, and very few of the
men were frightened.

With the exception of Ridgoway, which was
hardly a satisfactory test, the Canadian volun-
teer militia wore never triod in battle until this
day. They had, in this case, fought a desiicrato
fight from nine o'clock in the morning till
six at night with expert riflemen whom they
could not see ami could not reach, yet not
once had they faltered. Tho OOlh of Win-
nipeg fairly won their Npiirs in this action, and
Boulton's horse earnril for themselves — by
being tho first into thn active fight and the lost
out of it— the place which they so proudly kept
upon another day. The two regular corjis, A
Battery and C Comiwny, had Iwen in tho thick
of tho fight from tho first, and tho dash of Cap-
tain Peters into tho ravine, and tho tenacity
with which C Company clung to an untenable
position and there foiled a persistont attack
were fine achievements.

Tho men thus forced to abandon
their strong position wcro old fight-
ing men, holding ground whoso
capabilitiosthoy know. FishCreok
has boon tho scono of three sub-
sequent fights between Indian and
half-breed forces.

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so in. wide.

a— Breastwork of eorib. 8 incliM hiib, IS broad.

ft— Shallow, seml-bollowed trench, depth 3 or S inclMa,

e— Deeper depreutou behind breutworli.

•nd, with his rifle lying over the broad, low
parapet and his body oompletely below the
lurfaoe of the groand, the enemy's advantage of
pofdtion was extreme. As far as could bo sub-
sequently learned, Gabriel Dumont hod two
hundred and fifty picked men undtr his com-

CAPTAIN CLARK,
Wounded while leading up hia company at the Fiih Creek fight.

fight, which subsequently fell into General Mid-
dlettm's hands. Tho enemy's plan of battle is,
by this document, stated to have been an attack
up<m the column, by foot from the ravine and
horse from the bluff, when the guns were pass-
ing along the edge of the ravine. The mounted
men, by impetuously rushing upon the scouts,
as a matter of course destroyed all hope of an
ambuscade, and after an hour's fight, in which
an attempt was made to turn the right flank,
this report states Dumont and hia Metis retired,
leaving the Sioux in the pits, but they returned
during the aiftemoon. The loss to the Metis is
put dovra as eight killed and six l>adly wound-
ed. The courage of the troops was frequently
eommented on, and asoribed to the free use of
liquor, the writer not thinking it posdble for
men to wish to earry water in a bottle. The
shrapnel and common shell which were thrown
in such quantities into the ravine oould not have
produced a great effect, as it Is stated that no

CHAl'TER IX.

TBB TIIIRI) DIVISION RKLIKVH
IU)UONTON,

Early in April reports from Ed-
niiinton represented utfairs thero to
be in an aliirniiiig state. The
Indians wore assuming a threaten-
ing attitude, and tho half-breeds
were said to l)0 about to follow the
advice of Riel and rebel. Thn
scpmd of Mounted Police at Fort
Saskatchewan were said to have
declared that to protect that post
was the utmost they could do, and
thn terror-stricken people of Ed-
monton were told that they would
have to defend themselves as best
they could. The regular mail ser-
vice failed to get through, and
imagination suggested pictures of
tho fate of the people at the north,
which aroused the deepest anxiety.
The Third Division for the relief of
Battleford had then to be made up
hurriedly, at Calgary, from which
a trail led to Edmonton 104 miles north. Resid-
ing near Calgary was a British officer, the origin
of whose family was of a singularly romantio
nature, and who, after having won, like many
of hia ancestors, distinction in the English
army, had settled down on a ranch in the
far west. To him was entrusted the command
of the Tliird Division. Major-General Strange
is said to be a descendant of Charles Martel,
the greatest of the Mayors of the Palace to
the last of the Merovingian sovereigns, and also
to Charlemagne, the conqueror of the Romans.
He certainly sprang from a good Scotch family
of the seventeenth century — the Lunisdeoi.
When Charles Edward Stuart made his last
attempt to regain the throne of his ancestors,
his private secretary was one of the Lumsdens,
Andrew by name, who had » lovely sister,
Miss Lumsden had won the affection of a
"stickit" law student, Robert Strange, who
had shown some talent for engraving. She

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THK RIKr. KKnET.I.TON OF lOflB.

infomuxl 1«t l«>v«r thut if Ins winhcil t4) win
liiT lio iiiuHt ili'viitd liiiiiHi^lf ti) till! I'rinco'B
cBiiHe, a condition which, though without any
admiration (or tho I'rinco or any iiolitical
Inaninipi, hn iinhi-BitfttiiiKly ftccoplwl. After
tho coUik|iHii of tho I'rnlondiT'H ciuw, yoiing
HtrunK" wan iittaintiil itinl finally ihiv<m for
rofiiKo to tlm houw of hiH Ixtrothrd, Miiw
IjiilnMdon. Thuro tho nnl coftt» Hoiight him, but
whilo they wi'ro Htill in tho courtyard Minn
Lumwli'U, with all tho wi'Uknow' romiurcPH of
wiimi-n ut a critical periinl for those whom thoy
lovo, commanihxl hiT lover to Hit on the floor by
the hUmiI of the Bpiiu't and Bitting down on tho
htiMil hernelf, bIiii »hri)uded him in tho ample
folds of liiir iietticoat, dinttrnded by the enormouB
hiMipH of the time. While the officer watched
over her and the Boldiera Bearched the hoiisn,
bIio played air«, let u» hope good round Jacobite
on™, on the Bpinet MIhb Lumsden rewarded
her liero'B devotion by marrying him shortly
afterwardB, and with her he went to I'arin, and
there taking up once n\ipre hin Btudy of engrav-
ing, he Iwcamo one of tho greatest artiatB in his
lino. From this romantic union sprang many
Strangea, famous in all tho profesBiims and in
Ixith branches of tho service, and also "^'iijor-
Cenoral Strango, who servetl in thirteen en-
gagements during the Indian mutiny, was
mentioned four times in despatches, and wears
a medal and clasp. In 1871 ho was entruateil
with the formation of a Canadian Kegiment of
Artillery, of which he retaino<l command until
1882, when he wont to the West. He was
commisBioned to raise a Ixnly of Hcouts from
among tho cow-boys, before tho arrival of
tho 65th regiment of Mount Royal HifleB,
a body of men almost exclusively French-

MAJOR-GENERAL. STRANGE.

Canadians, In npito of all efforts to hurry tho
departure of tho division, tho almost insurmount-
able difficulties found in organizing transporta-
tion caused unavoidable delay, and even on tho
arrival of tho 92nd battalion of Winnipeg, on
tho 17th of April, some days elapsed before a
start was mode. At this juncture, Liout.-Col.
Ouimot, commander of tho 65th, left Calgary
and camo east, a proceeding, simple as it ap-
pears, which attracted public attention even- in

the midst of the war excitement. It was
reported that ho had quarrelled with General
iStrango, had discovered Government failings
which he intended to eximso in Parliament, had
found the equipment; and supplies to be totally
had and deficient, and had dotorsnined to niakn
these matters piiblio and have thorn reme<ti(«l.
.Sonie mystery, certainly, was made over his
movements, and tho Government, when <iuo8-
tioned in Parliament, gave information which
was not borne out by the result. After an
interview with the Minister of Militia, at
Ottawa, and a few days' rest, Colonel Ouimet
started for tho west to rcsimio his command,-
and tho public was informed that private busi-
ness ond illness were the causes of his visit east,
and that he had received leave of absence from
General Strango. The 92nd were hardly got
into camp before refugees from among the
scattered settlers along the Kdmonton trail
began to arrive at Calgary. Tho store of the
Rev. Mr. Gaetz, at Red Door, was ransacked by
tho Indians, whilo tho proprietor and his son
were taking tho family into Calgary, and the
stores of Baker and Baylis, at the Battle
river, were also raided, but no one was in-
jured. To General Strange's column was also
intrusted tho punishment of Big Boor and tho
relief of Fort Pitt, then believed to be in danger,
although tho full extent of the trouble in that
district had not at that time been learned. A
body of scouts, the advance guard of the column,
was despatched, with orders to seize tho crossing
of the Red Deer rivor, ond uimn tho morning of
the 19th a force, composed of a body of scouts,
fifty in number, under the command of Captain
Steele and Captain Oswald, and tho right wing
of tho 65th, 160 strong, under Lieut. -Col.

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VIEW OF EDMONTON,
On the Sukatchevan RlTW.

TIIK KIEL REDKLLION OK IHS:..

INSIDE FORT EDMONTON,
Headquarten of the 69th Battaliun (Muntrcal).

Hughes, marched fur the north under the com-
mand of Gimeral Strange, The trail lay over a
level i>riiirie, almost treeless, and tho only
impediment to travel was an occasioned marsh,
U|>i>n Saturday, the 25th, the Brst stage of the
march was safely accomplished. Tho force
camped on the shore of the river, and a number
of the transport teams was sent back to tho
asaistance of the second column. The river was
forded without difficulty upon tho following
day, and in shorter stages the march was con-
tinued through a more diversified country.
Upon the 23rd April the second column, mado
up of the left wing of the 65th, twenty-fivo
Mounted Police, with one nine-pounder gun, and
the Alberta mounted rifles, fifty strong, the
whol9 under the command of Major Ferry, a
graduate of the Kingston military college, who
hod held a commission in the Royal Engineers,
moved out of camp. On the 28th of April this
column reached the Red Deer river, which the
first column had been able to ford in waggons
witli no great difficulty, and found that it had
bocorae a mighty torrent A raft was hurriedly
built and an attempt made to swing it across,
but the rope broke, and it was only by tho most
doKiH-mte personal exertion on the part of Major
Perry, and at the risk of his lite, that the hastily
improvised ferry boat, uiran which the guns,
ammunition, etc. , had been placed, was
rescued from the stream. Major Perry
then laid down the lines of a ferry
scow, and, some rough material having
been secured, a serviceable floi.t was
omstructod in three days, and a guard
placed over it. On the 30th the right
wing of tho 02nd, tho regiment of
veterans raised by Col. Osborne Smith
in Wiunii«g in a few days, movud
forwardlas the third colunm of General
Strunge's division. Lieut. -Col. Smith
had, as an officer of the 39th of the line,
seen service in the Crimea, but besides
that lie had,during the troubles of 1861,
organized the Victoria Rifles of Mont-
real, Hehodalai^ghareintheFeniaQ

troubles of '66 and '70, having been in command
of the southern frontier during that troublesome
time, and won high encomiums for this service.
The battalion he had raised was an especially fine
one, and the wearers of tho scarlet and cordurciy
signalized themselves by tramping to Edmonton
in nine dayit, actual marcliing time, or eleven
days in all on tho road. General Strange arri vod
with the right wing of the 6Sth on tho 2nd May,
and found the whole settlement in a state of

LlEUT.-COL. J. A. OUIMET,
OommaQdioc Kth Battalion.

lutnic. The Indians of tho vicinity made no
difficulty about a<linittingthat they had receiviKl
a toKicco einbosBy from both Poundmakor
apd Big Bear, and hod heard an account
of the Ei'^h Creek fight, so inaccurate that it
was stated to have resulted in the cimiplete de-
feat of tho troops, and the massacre of an
unknown and fluctuating number of whites.
Captain Steele, with a large hrnly of (mlice and
scouts, were sent forward in the direction of
Victoria, while Edmonton and Kort Saskatche-
wan were garrisoned. Major Perry, with tho
second column, arrived u|>on the 5th of May,
and when on tho 12th the right wing of the 92nd
arrived, with 46 scouts. General Strange found
himself at the head of a body of 730 men, mode
upof 31Sof the 65th Battalion, 00 Edmonton
volunteers, 70 Mounted Police, 60 Alberta
Mounted Infantry, 46 scouts, and 190 of tho
92nd. The work upon the flat boats, to be used
in an advance by the river to Fort Pitt, had
been pressed, and in spite of the almost continu-
ous rumors of attack, ui>on the 14th of May the
92nd started down the North Saskatchewan
river in seven hastily built barges, and four
companies of the 65th, under Lieut.-Col Hughes,
wore despatched by the north trail ; Victoria, on
tho river, 74 milvs from Edmonton, being the
rendezvous. On the 18th, a fiold force, consist-
ing of 120 horse, one gun, and 340
infantry, were encamped at Victoria.
Lieut.-Col. Ouiuiot, who, by hard
riding, in spite of illness, hod rejoined
his regiment, was left at Edmonton
with tho remaining four companies of
tho C5th in garrison.

A ciniipivny of settlors and half-
breods wore sworn into jirotect Victoria,
and tho old post, a palisaded work
with u small bastion, was put into a
state of defence. The ferry scow was
repaired, bullet proof bulwarks added
to it, and the whole flotilla was pro-
vided with hastily devised anchors.
The boat which was to carry the gun
was equipped for service in such* nun-

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WW th»t, klthniiKh (lovoiil of |>rii|i«lliii({ iHiwer,
th" K"'" """I'l '"' iK'f vihI in any ilirncti"ii. C»i>t.
Bt»M>lii, wilh Ik Ixwly i.f loo w..iiIh iukI |«.lico,
WM fur ill ttdvwioc, ami ttic .mwnril linigruiiii of
tli« coliiiiiii WM »Uyoil for Homo diiyH awaitiiiK
liitolliK«ii<'" from lii"' i» nriir<l to tliii wliuru-
abuutM of Uig licar auil his thirty ca|ilivuii.

CHAITEK X.

CI'T KNirK HILL.

On t\ie arrival nt liattlcforil of Col. Otter's

ilivini"!! Iliii l)aniU of Iiidiun* who had «o Ion);

raiilril Ihc! town in liroad day li(!ht and plun-

dvrud such of iti bouiHia an weru out uf range uf

Onu day, iiuar the <md of April, a halflireod
caiiio into Kattlvford with the story that ho had
tw:a|H-<l from I'oundiiiaker'a camp, whitrnho and
many othi-r)iaU'liri'«dH had litTn held an priixin-
iTH. Th)* half lirwdi) would fi^ht the IndianH,
hv said, if thii Indians weru attacked by the
triMips, and if attacked at oiico Ix^foru liiK
Itrar and his braves, who had Imhih sent for
by I'oundniaker, arrived, ho had no doulit
roiindinaker would be easily defeated. It
Joined by liig Dear, Poundmaker would either
attack the town of Battleford or join Kiel in an
attack u|Min it in case Kiel withdrew westward,
as was at that time considered probable. CuL
Otter, whether prompted by a dosire to punish
Poundmaker for his depredations, or to prevent
further mischief, determined to deal him a

from the enemy, as when they left the fort,
columns of smoke had been seen risinK in thn
w>wt, which wer>) believed to be tlio alarm
signal of Poundmaker's scouts. While wait-
in); fer the moon to rise and liKht them
on their march, the men (rathi'red round
the flres and chatted about the coming fifflit
and its jiossibilities, and listened to an im-
promptu concert by the men of C Company.
About half-past eleven, when the moon, now
past the full, was high enough to set forward by,
every fire was carefully extinguished, and the
force in waggon and saddle was soon pushing
rapidly westward in the wake of the scouts and
police skirmishers who had gone in advance.
Under the weird light of the moon the trail was
plain in sight, but the oopsej through which

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the one gun in the barracks disappeared, but
shots fired at sentries and pickets gave cause still
to suspect a prowling scout in every brushwood
cover. Tho reserves of MiKisomin, Little Pine,
Thunder Child, Rtid Pheasant and Mosquito
were deserted, and many of '^heso bands were
supposed to be with Poundmaker on his reserve
to the south-west of the town. The troops, after
their rapid march, had a few days to entrench
themselves at Fort Otter, which they constructed
on the south shore of the Battle river opposite
the barracks, and to grumble at their rations,
which, whatever the vicissitudes of war, con-
tinued in one unvarying round of pork, bully
beef and biscuit. Even when the order was
reversed it did not make the pork less fat, the
beef less stringy, or the biscuits less dry.

sudden blow. On the Ist of May, at three
o'clock in the afternoon, he rode out of Battle-
ford at the head of a flying column, composed
of 75 Mounted Police, under Lieut -Colonel
Herchmer, 80 men of B Battery (Kingston)
under Major Short with two 7-pounderB and a
Catling ; 20 men of the Ottawa Guards, Lieut.
Grey ; 45 of C Company, Lieut. Wadmore ; 50
Queen's Own, Captains Brown and Hughes, and
45 of the Battleford Rifles, Oapt. Nash. Their
way that afternoon was not over open prairie
land, but through broken country with low hills
and a good deal of wooded land, and intersect-
ed by coul^ acroaa which the trail led. At
nightfall the column halted, and lighting fires
had a comfortable meal. It was considered
usele'js to attempt to conceal their approach

they passed cast dark, mysterious shadows,
which led some to speculate how many would
return if some hidden enemy were to surprise
the long line with a volley from tho bush.
Presently, however, on the open prairie, affording
no suggestions for such surmises, the men fell
into a sort of half sleep as they jogged and
jolted along. Long before the moon had set
in the west, the sun was sending his first
faint rays up from the east, and was be-
ginning to melt the chilly rawness of tho
night, when the force came to the edge of a large
natural amphitheatre. The flat bottom was
covered with the relics of a recent encampment.
Piles of wood, evidently cut for fuel, showed
that the "Nichis," as all Indians are familiarly
called in that region, had left at rather short

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THK KIEL RKBKLLION OK 1888.

notice, CroMing thiscamp trround, and |>suiiiff
through an op«ninK on the other Hide, the iiandy
trail (lanted down tr> tha right, under a higli
"cut bank," tu a creok, just de<'|i enough to
make fording a very awkward procetxling for thu
waggoni. Thu head of the column wiut winding
through the buaheii on the north-went aide of
the creek, when, in coniHXiunnce of word jUHt
received from iiooutii, the pace waa Kuddenly
quickened. The mounted iK>rtion of the policu
daahed over the Htream, out of the buahea and
up a beautiful turfy incline, gaining riaing
ground which lay in an elbow of the ravine.
The guna were driven after them at a gallop,
but were not yet in (Kwition on the top of the
bill when bulleta came whistling over the heads
of the men and the fight with Poundmaker had
begun. It looked aa if an ambush had been
prepared and the Indiana had intended to catch
the forces in the natural trap formed by the
gully they had juat croaaed. The unexpected
night march had brought the troops on the
■cene a little ton early. It waa then just after
five o'clock and the Indians had been
caught napping. A few minutes more
would have given them the top of the
hill, and one prefers not to speculate on
what the result would have been in
that case.

Poundmaker had chosen his ground.
On this very spot many years before he
had fought the Sarceea, under their
chief Cut Knife, and had utterly
defeated them, and "Cut Knife" had
been the name of the hill ever since.

The eight or nine blanketted and
painted red-skins who had opened the
ball by a ruah, yelling aa they fired, _^

were driven back to a couUe about two
hundred yards in front of the guna—
the intervening space being flat and
open. In this first volley of the In-
dians, CoifKiral Sleigh, of the Mounted
Police fell with a bullet through his
brain. His comrade, Kosa, who waa
always to be found where pluck was
needed, dragged him from under fire.

The gunners settled down to work,
and shell after shell was aent over
where the enemy waa known to be
lying — one burat in the Indian camp
itaelf, amaahing two of the tepees, and
the Gatling certainly knocked over
several of the assailants, though its
effects were scarcely in proportion to
the three thousand bullets which quitted its six
mouths during the engagement.

While B Battery and the dismounted police
held the front, the other troops, though hungry
after the long night march, rushed to their
places without even putting a biscuit in their
pockets, and bullets were whizzing around them
before they could lie down in the comparativo
shelter afforded b; the bank of the cjul^e. On
the left, near the front, were the Governor-
General's Foot Guards ; further back, on t!;o
same side, lay the Queen's Own, while the Bat-
tleford Kiflea defended the left rear. The men
of C Company, accompanied at first by some of
the Ottawa Guards, held the right fiank.

The waggons and team horaea were gathered
together in the centre of the hollow square form-
ed by the tnmps on the rising slope, and their
drivers huddled among the wheels. Not a man,
however, was allowed to remain inactive. It
was apparent that the Indians were trying to
surround the troops under shelter of the sur-
rounding guUiea, and they very nearly succeed-

ed, Some of them, on fiKit and on hurneback,
were seen running over to occu|>y the hill from
the other aide of thu couk'u to the right. This
attempt waa nipixnl in thu bud by thu lire of C
Company, who charged ui'Mhh and took the hill
tlieuiaelvia. For n time the Company wero
ex|Hmed to aerioua fire. While they were exe-
cuting an order to retire slowly from thu hill,
thu Nichid infniiit aaw their opportunity ami
(Hiurud their bullets into the redcoats.

On the left, the Guarda were in a precarious
position between three lines of fire, Indiana or
half-breeds were hidden right and left in thu
coulee below, protected both by the buahus and
by a natural bank ; while others held the hill
beyond and fired over their coni|>ttuions' heads.
The latter wero rarely to be seen ; only a puff of
amoko to guide the answering bullota of the
Guards' sharpahtMiters, The enemy on the bill
had tu show at least their heads wh#n taking
aim. One waa picked off, at long range, by a
constable lying just outside the wheels of the
waggons. Early in the fight Lieut. Gray led

COLONEL W. D. OTTER.

his men down into the coulee on the opposite
side from that similarly defended by C Company
to prevent the threatened flanking movement.
They were met by a raking fire and tell hock
to their former position. One of the company,
Osgoode, was ahead of the others, and when
they retired he pushed on to gain nearer shelter
in the bushes, but he was hit and rolled over
when just entering the cover and hia body was
not recovered. The (Queen's Own Rifles li.id
the same enemy to contend against and the
some tactics. At first, much lead was wasted
on blankets and hats, held up as decoys by
the Indians ; and while one of the volunteers
half rose to aim at the sham he would be the
target for an Indian awaiting just that oppor-
tunity. By and by the whites found this out,
and played the same trick on the reds.

About the middle of the fray, twenty men of
the Queen's Own were culled for to re-occupy the
position from which a hot cross fire had pre-
viously driven them. They not only did so,
but passed the crest of the protecting slope and

lieinin to charge, with clieer», down towanli thu
buslii'it. Ho close were they to llio In<tiniiH tlhtt
Lieut, Brock, who le<l thu charge, hml an op|Kir-
tunity to use hia revolver. But the lituati'n
wua far too ex|Ni»e<l, and tliu men retired to I lie
cover of thu hill's <Klge. Color Sergeant CiKiiur
fell badly hit during that charge, and was
pluckily removed to shelter by hia eiunraili',
".lake" SiM-nue, hel|i«d later by I'livnle Cunip-
l>ell. The ambulance men came up and removed
him in spite of hia aayiiig he was "done for,"
and telling them to go and help aome one elau
who might need tlieni, Varey waaatruckut tlici
samu time. Big, Jolly, Brigadu-Sergeunt .Major
Sjiaekman was firing along with thu (juei-n's
Own like <mo of thu men, when a bullet went
through hia left upimr arm and hu was greatly
diagusted at the doci<rs making him keep quiet
in " hospital,"

The artillery in the meanwhilu were haviii)? ix
hot time. The mountings of their two aevm-
I>ounders were rotten anil one of thu trunniun
capa was broken at the first shot. After half a
dozen rounds the trail gave way umler
the recoil and the gun hud to lie lifte<l
from the grimnd whenever it waa to liu
loaded. Later on, thu other gun trail
gave way and the gun itself had to lat
fastened on to the axletree with ro|x-s.
The trail of one was broken before thu
force crossed tho South Saskatchewan,
three weeks before, and was roughly
reijaired on board the steamboat there.
Under these circumstances it is not
wonderful that the artillery came near
to having a hand-to-hand fight with the
enemy. The Indians rushed uiwn the
guns and the men were actually retreat-
ing, when Major Short, seeing liis
chance, shouted i "Who'll follow nie I''
"1 willl" came from the soldiers neir
him, and with fixed bayonets they
daehed forward U|x)n the enemy. Tins
latter did not wait for a touch of tUo
steel, but the whites, enthusiuatically
shouting, charged so near that Major
Short shot one Indian with hia revoUi-r
and the gold braid was ripi>ed from liis
own cap by another Indian's bullet,
only eliciting the remark : "It's a new
hat, too. " A little French cook, attach-
ed to the battery, used the stock of liis
rifle to club a Niclii whom Cunstab'.u
Ross had shot. The Brigade bng'er,
Foulkes, a lad of nineteen, belonging to
C Company, fell in this charge, shot in the head.
"Boys," said he, "carry me away — I'm dying,"
but all was over then, and his comrades kipt
watch over his body and brought it away wli( n
they withdrew. Two more bullets had found
their billets in the dead buj;ler's breast nn<l
shoulder before then. The charge was a bril-
liant one, and would scarcely have ended beforu
thu tepees themavlves had been reached lut
for tho Major and his men being recalled to
tl-.eir guna, Tliua the guna wire saved aw],
probably, a terrible disaster averted, when tlio
column was efft^cting thu withdrawal.

One by one the dead and wounded were
brought into the centre. They began to arrive
before any protection had been arranged and
were laid among the waggon wheels. Bullets
were whizzing incesaantly overhead and tuo
horses clo. e by were hit. Presently two circ'.es,
of bogs of oats were formed, and within these
the wounded were cored for by Surgeons Strange
and Leslie, and by the kind and energetic hos-
pital sergeant of the battery, Labatt, The

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kmtnilanco cori* w<>rk«l ni)l>ljr, — "ilMuhllnjr"
lint til ttiii (niiit whi'iiovcr ri-fiiiir"! »nil c»rry-
iiiK liw^k tlix wiiiiiKlMi nil » •trntchxr tliniiiffh •
Ifiwli'ii ImiUtni'Tii.

T)i» K'oo l<»vinK liriikrn down, niiil it iM'inK
iiii|iiiMllili' t'l ilialiMl) o iliH I'Di'iiiy fniiii tlx'ir
CiiviT without tliniii. It wan rin. f»«iir) tn wilti
ilrttw. AlKiiit hulf |i»»t tiMi till- onliT w»« (liven
tii
thi- prnirii', nui which thn cnhiiiiii hiwl oiim'.
CB|it<»iii Ninh wuM iiidiTi'il to (Ifncciid thti h'(t
ciiiih'ii liiiil char it mil ; vnhintecrM with calh-d
fill' til linHinl, mill II iiiiiiilM-r (if tho Vuevn • Own
Mill (iiinriN Ktnitiil f'U'Wuril. Thin niiivf niic-
ci'Kili'il ill itK iihjid, liiit miocmi wao |miil for
ilcarly liy thi> nun wlin
»im it. Ch.irlii' Winder,
A tcanintiT, who liail Uir-
piwik] n rifle ami |ilunK*'il
intii the tliick of thn dgiit,
WAH hit then, (iilbort, •
French ('Anadian, who
linhl the poaitinn of liii);ler
t'l the Kattleford Uiflia,
WAH iihiit thnni|;h the neck.
I'rivAte Ateheson, of th«
(incenV Own, who niadfl
AH eiiimlly good mildier
And chaphiin, lifted the
wounded man and carried
liiin friini under fire. An
Indian tried to pick otT
AtchcHon, but waa liiniaelf
knocked over by Lloyd,
who w»« in hia turn wound-
ed by another Indian'a
bullet. Diibba, who had
fought hia way Hafely
through the Indian Mu-
tiny and the Ked River
Kx|HKlition, now niAde hia
laatlijjht. A bullet pierced
hia breaat, and not many
niinutea afterward he
ceaaed to breathe. Atohe-
Hon dragged him olT, Ser-
geant McKell helping with
line hand while carrying
three riflea, lielonging to
wounded, in the other,
McKell himaelf had prob-
ably the nurroweat of the
many narrow e.sca|>09 ex-
perienced during tliat bat-
tle, A bullet cut through
the knitt'-d turpie he was
wearing, and took the akin
from his left temple ; one-
eighth of an inch closer,
and the re.sult would have
been fatal. As it waa, the
gallant sergeant for a
moment thought he was
badly hurt, and exclaimed ; " Another Iriahman
gone !"

Aa the men were pressing through these
bushes, they were stopped by the bursting of a
shell in unpleasant proximity— the shell being
intended to help in clearing the up|)er part of
the couUe. On the right, the coulee was cleared
of the enemy by Constable Boss and some com-
panions from various regiments, and four ponies
were captured. With feathers in harness, rib-
bons in tail, and gaudy saddle cloths, theaninials
had evidently bi-cn tied up till their owners
should return from "clearing out" the white
men. The withdrawal was then begun, teams got
ready, the four dead were loaded on two wag-

gon«, and the iliirtwii or fourteen wounded men
were laid in live waitgon^ and the old aiiiliiilAnre
carriage. One of the diKiuounted guna waa put
alao in n waggon, aiiiI the proceaaion atarted to
diiacend the hill. The euemya fire had lieen pretty
well ailenced, except from thiit creek in thn rear
which had to Iw recroaaed. Kive half breed ii atill
lurked iimler the perfect cover given them by
the cut bank. A party of acouta, under Uoaa,
with Hattleford iiien, waded aonma the atreani
nt a (Hiint lower down, then lined the npiamite
Hide and drove out the laat olMtacle to the
retirement. One by one the tired and hungry
horses were got to drag their loaila through the
difficult pass, and halted wb«n they had crossed

POUNDMAKEB,
The Cree Ctiief agaiosi whom Colonel Otter marohed.

the abandoned camp ground. But this retreat-
ing movement — a most trying one for the cool-
ness and phick of the men — was executed
splendidly. Before the rear guard were half
way down the hill, Indians reappeared on the
spot whence, a few minutes before, our guns
had been shelling them, and began to followand
fire upon the crowd below them. Step by step
the troops retired, turning, lying down, and
taking deliberate aim at their pursuers. The
latter Bnally stopped when three of their num-
ber fell, knocked over by a shell from the ro))e-
fixed gun, now in position on a hill across the
creek. The withdrawal was delayed for a little
time while the Queen's Own brought away a

wiiundixl man who had lieen left on the field,
Thia wna Charlea Winder, a young man from
r.iriiiingham, Kngland, of good fiiniily, though
he hitd left hia farm at IlrAiidon to work aa
teAniHtnr with thia exiiedition. lie had |iicked
lip n rifle and Joined the Hattleford men early In
tlitt morning, and full in the coidiie Juat when
the otliera were leaving thn a|Hit. He waa not
ipiitii dead when lifted into the waggon that was
brought back for hini, but drew hia laat breath
before he had gone far. Another teamater,
■lohn Parker, a deaf-mute, but a caiital ahot,
perhaps hit more Indians than any ilieakiog
and hearing man in the field.
Now all were safely over, and it was decided
to press right on to Battle-
ford that night, in oaae of
• liosaible advance by the
Indiana U|Hin the town,
by the trail north of Battle
River, With one halt of
half an hour, and another
of ten minutea, the force
rode back and arrived
safely at the camp about
;ten o'olook.

The loss of the Canadian
forces in this battle was
heavy, considering the
strength of the force, being
eight killed and twelve
wounded. The namesof the
- . dead and wounded were :

KULFD.

Mounted Police — Corporal
Ijiurie, Cor|Hiral Sleigh, Bugler
Durke. Foot Ouarila— rrlvato
OagMHli , left on field ; Private
Jnn. Itddgura. Dattlefoid Rllloa
— Arthur Doblia, C Cmiipany ;
Bugler Faulkuer, Teamater
Charles Windrr.

WOUNDSD.

Police-Sergt. Wanl. D Bat-
tery— I.ieut. Pelfh'r, Bergpniit
OaBiiey, Corporal Morton, Oun-
iier Keyiiiilda. C Company-
Brigade Beriji'ant-Mnjor Hpsck-
■nan, Ottawa Ciuarda-Colur
Borgeant Winter, Private
Mi'Quilken. Queen's Owii^
Scrgt. Coojier, Private Charlea
Nary, Private Watts. Baltle-
fi.rd Klflta-Erueat Gillwrt.

Poundmaker had n force
of over four hundred war-
riors, three hundred and
fifty of whim were In-
dians and the remainder
half-breeds. They were
well armed, for when he
surrendered, at a later
date, two hundred and ten
) rifles and guns were given

up, and it was known that
a considerable band of his
best armed braves left hira on hl~ surrender and
went over to Big Bear's camp. Ammunition was
also found on the reserves later, and the belief of
those best acquainted with the Indians was, that
many more arms and much more ammunition had
been cached on the reserves. The losses of his
forces have never been certainly ascertained.
The estimate of Canadian officers who were in
the action placed the number of killed at
from fifty to eighty, an estimate which was
coniirmed by a priest who was with the In-
dians. The Indians, on the other hand,
stated their killed to have numbered six or
seven, and the half-breeds, who declared they
took no part in the engagement, supported their

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known. Th« Imtlln waa not ft ili'daivii victory
for tilt) trooim, «a tlicy with coihiwIIikI to with.
draw, liiit l>t'foru doinK an lliry ailvniMHl tli»
vnoniy'a Krr. Tli« |iri«at «')jo wita with the
Indiana alatoit that th« bh<\ woa a vi'ritahU
ahiH'k to thH Indiana, and t.mt it wmiM ha
whixpored uroiind thi-ir caniptinn for ycara to
come. Thii vohintucra bi>havi'd n|ihinilidly,
novor wavering or Ijuconiih); iKinicatticki'n,
thoiiKh hiilf ail hour afti-r thn enf(*?«inent
oonimeni'i .1 it waa climr that they had bmm led
intn a trap, Cohmcl Otter'i withdrawal of hia
littln force, without tho hiaa of a man in the
operation, from aiirh u aituittion, rnflucti'd the
li ^ ii'Ht credit n|Hin )iia akill and upon the
eadiiicna of hia men. Thern can ho little
dniiht that tlio hlow prepared the mind of
Poundnmker for the aurrendiT which fulluwed
on the nuwR of the defeat of Kiel,

CHAPTEU XI.

-IHI TRIP or THB " NORTIICOTE. "
The atrength with which tho rebela held
FiahCruL'k waa ho great that (ien. Middleton
found it necenaary to bring acroaa the river a
portion of the Second Column of hia Divia-
inn during the engagement, though it arrived
too late to take much part. It waa evident
that the rebela had determined to make
their final atand at Batnche, on the eaat
aide of the river, which it waa liyimed
had been atrongly entrenched. General
Middleton therefore determined to cnnaoli-
date hia Diviaion and mai-ch an undivided
force down uiKin Catoche. Beaidca, clr-
ouniatancea made it neceaaary to delay the
advance upon Batoohe until the arrival of
the Steamer " Northcote" with auppliea. Dur-
ing the next day, therefore, the remainder of
the Secimd Column under Col. Montizambert
waa ferried acroaa the river. Though the battle
of Fiah Creek ha<l cleared the way to Batoche,
General Middleton waa encumbered with over
forty wounded men, who had to be protected
and cared for by the column, in the ahaence
of any safe houae at a reasonable diatance to
which they could be sent. The aupply of
ammunition waa also low, owing to defec-
tive pouchea, which, when not kept buttoned
while the men were lying down allowed
the cartridges to drop out. Much ammunition
was waatcd, and much fired away useleasly,
owing to the inexiierience of the troopa, so
that a tremondoua quantity ivaa got rid of
and the supply remaining y/aa inauflicient for
the work ahead. A large mpply of forage, of
proviaiona, of ammunition, t.nd alao of the much
needed hoapital stores, as well aa the chief
hospital oBBcerawere on the 'Northcote,'' which
was somewhere on the South Saskatchewan
river. Though the steamer "Northcote,' was
expected at Clarke's Crossing before the ad-
vance took (-litce, yet day a'ter day went by
after the battle of Fish Creek, during which
the General and his men fretted at the delay
which would enable the rebeW to further
strengthen their position ; yet though looked
for from the bank of the Saskatchewan as long-
ingly as and far more impatiently than the sail
was looked for by Enoch Arden, still the steamer
did not appear. The " Northcote " had been de-
tained for one reason and another at Sas-
katchewan Landing, and it was not until the
23rd, or the day before Fiah Creek battle, that
the steamer actually started down the river.
She had on board a couple of hundred men

LIEUT.-COL. C. E. MONTIZAMBERT,

Second lo oommand undpr Den. Hlddletoa in the

NorlhWeal.

of the Midland battalion, under Lieut. -Colonel
Williams, Lieut. Howard, C.S.M., and had two
Scows in tow, with about three hundred tons of
supplies and ammunition, the Gatling gun, and
the field hospital stores and ataff under the direc-
tion of Dr. Roddick, of Montreal, and Dr,
Douglas, V, C. , an old arm y surgeon , decorated for
|>ersonal bravery on the field. During a voyage
to India, the tranaixirt upon which Dr. Douglas
woa put into an island in the Indian Ocean for
fresh water. The watering party were attacked
by natives in sight of the ship, and ao heavy waa
the aurf that none thought it possible to take a
boat through it to relieve them, Dr, Douglas,
trained in the surf of Urosae lale, below Que-
bec, volunteered for the attempt, took in a
boat, rescued the watering party and brought
them off triumphantly inspite of surf and savages.

The little ex|>edition was under the com-
mand of that veteran officer Lieut, -Colonel
Van Straubenzce. The river was unusually
low, the melting snows of the Rocky Moun-
tains not having swelled its volume as yet, and
the trip v/as from the first one of unusual
difficulty. The heavily laden boat was draw-
ing thirty-four inchea of water, and on many of
the bars, caused by every petty rivulet that en-
tered tho main stream, not more than thirty
inches could be found. Over these the flat bot-
tomed stern wheeler had to be absolutely lifted
by spars and steam winches, until the Elbow
was passed, and it was seldom that ten miles
were made without such an experience.

As time went on and no news of the steamer
was received a good deal of anxiety was aroused.
It waa known that a great many disaffected
half-breeds and Indians were in the neighbor-
hood of the river, and in places the high banks
would afford excellent cover for an enemy
attacking her. Scouting parties were sent down
the banks of the river to find her.

At IIm atmp no military oiwraliona, rxmpt
that of )(atheriliff intelligence aa to the I'ouiitry
aliiad niid thn ati-'iiKtll of the enemy, ueie
Jiidi'i taken, and tliiiiiiin fi'll into the routine of
camp life. For duya after, at Kinh Cnik, little
groii^ were lif*iird (liKciiaaiiig the hutllt- and, in
thtt worda of one eorrfliiMindeht, itiip|io)tiiig and
reKrettiiiguiid laiiuitingHiid liruKKing, umli'xag
geratiiig their proweaa niiil (lunger, iin young aol-
diera after their firat battle alwaya have done and
alwaya will do. The gravea of thoae u ho fell hud
been ilug in thn prnirio aiMl within aight of tho
fielil of honor and tlie mighty river, and grei-n lir
boiiglia with pale aneiiionea, carefully arrang<'<l
by uoir.radua of the dead, covere<l them. Mom
enduring than fiowura, a dark cuirn of ixmldera
taken from the river and currieil ii|i with much
toil, alowly roao near the griivea, anil a great
white uroaa of gleaming white poplar marked the
burial gn>und of the patrotic dead.

While all waa ao(|uiut and (leacefiil at the front,
I here waa a goial deal of excitement and aua|>enao
in thetjii'Apiielle Valley. TlieMetiaand Inilian
IMipulution of that diatrict coidd put alxiut H()0
men into the field, and it waa known that
Kiel had endeavored to induce them to rise.
The news lif the battle of Fiah Creek waa
received with rej(iicing by tlieae people,
who inaiated that it waa n victory for their
frienda and rvlativea, and ulainiing repoita
were put in circulation. When tho battle
waa fought there wero aome 200 cavalry in
Winni|>eg, and they were at once aent
forward, the Governor (lenerara Body
Guard of Toronto, 78 men, under Col. Denni-
Bon, going to HumlM>ldl j the QueU-c Kegulor
Troop, Col. Turnbiill, to Touchwood ; and
the W!nni|ieg Troop to Qu'Ap|>fclle, where
Col, Scott, with the Olat were in garriaon. The
American frontier was under the constant
patrol of a number of local organizationa, the
moat imimrtantof which were Stewart 'a Rangera,
a body of about 100 cow-boya raised near Cal-
gary, U|Km the lat of May the Montreal (tar-
riaon Artilley, under Col, Oswald, one of the
fineat corpa in the country, were called out to do
garriaon duty at Winnipeg, and to thia cor|a) be-
longs the honor of having made the first all-rail
trip by the Canadian route, from the head of
ocean navigation to Winnipeg,

On tho 30th of March the Government Imd
opix)inted a commission, comijoaod of Mesars.
W. R. P, Street, Q.C., of London, Ont., Roger
Goulct, of St. Boniface, and A. E. Forget, of
Regina, to enquire into the claims of the h.^lf-
breeds of the North- Weat. A court had been
opened at Qu'Appelle and, in a large number of
cases, land scrilJ'for $240 was issued in abolition
of the Indian title. It was stated, and that
upon the floor of the House of Commons, that
thia scrip had been sold to speculators by the
recipients, and the money so obtained invested
in arms and ammunition, which was immediately
Bent to Riel ; but this was emphatically denied,
and in no case was there definite evidence of
such action.

The water of the South Saskatchewan began
to rise slowly about the Ist of May, and a number
of carpenters were sent down to Swift Current
to biiild barges, which would carry stores down
the river, and so actively was the work pressed
that by the 4th of May ten of these boats were
on their way to General Middleton, with a large
amount of supplies. The little steamer " Min-
now " had been despatched upon the same
errand three or four days before. The " North'
cote" had not been heard of for eight days,
when, upon May 3rd, she was discovered by a

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l«rtyiif Dennin' mounted mirveyms upon aaand
bar. A nooe at the front, were much
incensed at tlie delay. The Ki'adual ris^ of tlio
river, however, enabled her to make better pro-
KrcKK, HO that after landing the medical staff at
Haskatoon, where tho field houjatal WB» to bo
|ilace<l, and two companies of the MidlanderH at
Clarke'* Cronning, where they were to remain
in garrison, Oener:il iliddleton's camp at Finh
Creek wan readied upon fho ."itli of May. On
llielHtof May five canvas-covered waggons, with
extem|K»ri8ed utretchers of rawhide, and two
ariibulanceH, moved slowly out of the camp at
Fish Creek with the wonnde<l, wlio were so far
advanced tt)wards recovery that the trip could
bo attempted, under an escort ot Boult<m'i<
HorKe, Poor Swinford, who had been struck
down with a bullet through the brain, was not
among them. After lingering for several days
in a comatose state he die<l. There was now
nfithing to prevent the advance of the column
ujxjn the rebel stronghold at Batocbe.

CHAPTER XII.

THE ADVANCE VPON DAIOCHB.

The first military operation undertaken by
(ieneral Middleton'n command, after the
tight at Fish Creek, was a reconnaissance to
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east trails to Batoche. On
the 4th of May two |>arties,
com|M)sed of Boulton's horse
and French's scouts, left the
camp, th(! former taking tho
river, tho latter tho east
trail, and reached a point
fourteen milesdistant. They
found tho whole settlement,
which stretched continuously
from Fish Creek to Batoche,
entirely doterted. The com-
fortable hu.-nes, and broad
and well-tilled fields of tho
Metis, were desolate, and it
was evident from the aban-
donment of household g(H>ds
that the movement had been
a hasty one. At Gabriel
Dumont'g Crossing the mod-
erately well-filled store and
comfortable, and even hand-
some, homestead of the rebel
general were left with almost
all their contents at tho
mercy of tho troops. Tho
ferry scow had not been de-
stroyed, and, with itsaweeps,
lay at the landing place
ready for service. Four miles
further on, five men sud-
denly ran out o{ a house, sprang to their
horses and rode off without firing a shot.
The interior of the house occupied by these
pickets waa a curious sight. Upon a table
lay a pack of cards as they had fallen from
the jilayers' hands, flanked by a platter of
beefsteak, and uix>n the stove a bannock
and a |H>t of potatoes were cooking. For the
entire distance the river trail wag found to
be a |>erfectly o|>en one, but the east trail,
whicli French found deserted, ran through
heavy timber where mounted men would bo
useless. I:i tho deserted homes of the Metis
was everywhere found evidence of rude, but
substantial plenty, although all small {lort-
able articles of value had been carried off.
The men of the reconnoitering imrty burdened
themselves with loot, such as eggs and fowls,
which the long and steady diet ui>nn hard tack,
pork, and bully beef had rendered most valuable
in the eyes of the troops, and thirty-tliree head
of cattle were driven into camp. To complete
this expedition one of the three Sioux Indians of
White Cap's band, captured by Loid Melgund
near Clarke's Crossing, was sent into Batoche as
a spy, his brother being held as a hostage that
he would be true to the salt, which with the
large addition of broad and pork he bad oaten
during his captivity.

(Jp<in the 7th of May, the entire force, number-
ing, with the teamsters, boatmen and supernum-
eraries, 1,400 men, four guns andaGatling, with
600 horses, moved slowly out of Fish Creek
Camp, past the tall white cross of shining [mplar
over its cairn of grey stone guarding the graves
of tho glorious dead, inst the deep stem ravine
where the prairie flowers were sjiringing, and on
to the north to meet the foe. Men and homes
were all much refreshed by their long halt, and
the march was a brisk, short r.nd iieaceable one.
The Steamer "Northcote," 'vhose lower deck
had been cased around with a double covering
of two inch planks, a'wompanied the march
of the (olumn, with the men of C Company
as a fighting crew on board. Lieut -Colonel
Van Straubenzee had been given the command
of the infantry division, now over 600 strong.

LIEUT.-COL. VAN STRAUBENZEE.

This gallant officer still suffered from th«
wounds he bad received in his early campaigns,
had, as a subaltern of the 32nd Light In-
fantry, served under Lord Gongh through the
Sikh war, and led the forlorn hope at Moultan,
where he was severely wounded. At the
Crimen, where he served on the staff of his
brother General Sir Charles Van Straubenzo°,
ho again distinguished himself, and during the
Chinese war he was at the taking of tho Sum-
mer Palace.

Shortly after noon the column was halted at
Dumont's Crossing, and a zaroeba wag formed
in a not very suitable locality, as it was sur-
rounded by bushes ; but though tho men slept
wit|} their arms by their side tho night passed
in |)erfect quiet. By seven next morning the
column was again en rontt, but the river trail
was no longer followed, as the locality of a
most dangerous ravine upon that trail a few
miles beyond Dumont's had been discovered,
and a detour somewhat eastward was made to
avoid it. The heavy line of brush to the south
being passed for ten miles tho column moved
through the fine open prairie dotted with clumps
of trees that lay spread out at the foot of the
beautiful Birch Hills. The camp was formed
upon tho rounding summit of one of the prairie
waves, close by tho Humboldt trail, about ten
miles from Batoche. While the tents were
being pitched and the zoreeba formed Boulton's
Horse, under Lord Melgund, penetrated to
within four miles of Batoche and selected the
next camping ground. During the next even-
ing Captain Frere, the son of Sir Bartle Frerf ,
who had been appointed aide to General Middle-
ton, re|iorted to the General, having ridden in
from Humboldt entirely alone. He brought in
with him a Scotch half-breed, named Tait, who
claimed he had deserted the rebels, and from
him it was learned that Riel had about 500 men
under arms. He also furnished the General
with a rude plan of the works surrounding Ba-
tiKhe, and, as it aftewards proved, his informa-
tion was modert^tely reliabla The night before
tho battle — for all knew that the attuik would
Cume on the morrow— wag a quiet one, and waa

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rendered none the leu comfortable, beoaiue
there wu hardly a meu in the camp which was
not much improved by the ipoila of the rebel*'
bam-yardi. Foremost among the looters was
"the American Gatling Gun Contingent," who
distinguished himself by bringing in a young pig
and a doien chickens. During the night a
scout came in from Prince Albert with a des-
patch from CoL Irvine, to the effect that he had
sent the steamer "Marquik" around to Batoche,
and that there was a force of 30 men guarding
a small flotilla at Fritohard's Crossing, some dis-
tance below that point. That night the pickets
were vigilant, and it is told of one of the Mid-
land Battalion that he halted Lord Melgund,
who was coming in from without the lines, with
the shout, "Put up your hands." Lord Mel-
gund did so, and after being
kept in that position for a
few uncomfortable momenta,
he asked the picket, "Well,
what are you going to do?"
The fellow slowly advanced,
took a good look at him with
his rifle in a most suggestive
attitude, and then turning
to the bush he yelled, " Its
all right Jim," and began to
retrace his steps. "What do
you mean," said the aston-
ished officer, who was not
accustomed to this peculiar
method of receiving the
countersign, and the picket
replied, as he resumed his
P9sition in the shadow of
a bash, " Nothing, but my
pard had a bead on you, and,
as it was all right, I told him
to drop it."

By four o'clock the whole
camp was astir, for few had
:>lept soundly that night, and
many a young soldier as he
lay on his folded blanket,
with his rifle by his side, let
his thoughts run back to
those, two thousand miles
away, whom he might never
see again, and as Ups grew
tremulous and eyes grew dim
with misty tears, he nerved
him for the fight. By nx
o'clock the whole column
was in motion, the camp
being left just m it stood,
under the guard of the armed
teamsters. Boulton'a Horse,
76 strong, with the Oatling,
were in advance and in sup-
port were the 10th Orena-
diem, 262 strong; then come the 90th, 270;
the Midlanders, 116 ; A Battery, two guns,
120 men ; Winnipeg Battery, two guns, 62
men ; French's scouts, on both flanks, 26, and
the ammunition and ambulance vt^ii'mis '. ' '■• j-
ing up the rear. In all, ''.ore >r?<-« 020 men
under arms. The m-^rch was a slow one,
the ammunition -.fSggons getting mired In
some places, but there 'vas no sign of [the
enemy, and the huts of Chief Une Arrow's
bond of Teton Sioux Indians, 'Krough whose re-
servation the march lay, were entirely deserted.
After an hour the whistle of the "Northcote" was
heard, and a blank cartridgo w«s fired in re-
Btmnse ; still there was no sign of the enemy.
About eight o'clock an A Battery gun was unlim-
bervd and a shell was put through the roof of a

house on the right of the trail, and out of it ran
half a dozen men who at once took to the bush. A
short distance further and there appeared the
little church of St. Antoine de Podoue, the parish
church of St. Laurent, a simple wooden struc-
ture, crowned by a belfry, and beside it a large
two-storey schoolhouse, standing on the top of
the ridge that bounded the view. A little
lower down the ridge, and between the church
and school, were a few tepees. The Uatling,
which, under escort of Boulton's Horse, was in
advance, opened fire upon them and drove out
their Indian occupants helter-skelter, leaving
their uneaten breakfast. The advance guard
moved up toward the church, and fire was
opened u^on the schoolhouse with the Gatling
at short range. Instantly a priest came to

THE GATLING GUN,
With Improved Feed, showing it st 78 Degrees of EleTsUoa.

tho door and the whole advance guard with
the General's staff rode up, and four priests
and live nuns came out and begged for pro-
tection. After a few moments' conversation,
'luring which the information that the "North-
cove" had passed down the river under a
heavy fire was obtained, the staff advanced to
the crest of the ridge u|)un which the church
stands and before them in the valley lay
Batoche. Some distance above Batoche the
river, which flows northward, makes a detour to
the left and forms an almost semicircular curve
before resuming its northerly course below the
settlement. Within the curve thus formed is the
high bank upon which the church and school-
house stand, and the whole village of Batoche,
which lies 1,600 yards beyond the church, down

in the valley and almost in the middle of the
curve. At a point near the largest of tho houses
the ferry crosses the river. For some distance
down the river, after its turn toward the left, •
the eastern ban*^ 'S high and steep and well
wooded, and then the bank retreating from
the river forms a curve which is more or
less the counterpart of that formed by tho river,
Tho village, th^..efore, lies in what may be
roughly called an elliptical basin. Tho bank is
not bold as at the rivor, but it is broken by
ravines, one of which begins at tho river where
the bank begins to fall away, and runs back
with a sinuous course, narrowing and ex-
tending to within a hundred yards of t'm church,
from which there is a gradual descent to it.
This ravine and all the small ravines, with
which the whole face of the
promontory was brokon,were
wooded. The ridge lying
between this ravine and the
slope to Batoche commanded
the whole place, and from this
rdge the General and his
staff gazed down upon thn
peaceful looking village. In
the centre was a two-storey
framehouse— freshly painted,
as indeed all the houses were
— recently the home of Ba-
toche, who was absent, and
now President Kiel's hood-
quarters. Near it is a
humbler building, used as
the Council Chamber of the
Provisional Government of
the Saskatchewan, with a
white flag, apparently en'.-
blazoned, flying obovo it.
Between the slope and the
village there were wooded
bluffs, above which the
brown roofs of other houses
could Just be discerned. On
the west side of tho river the
bank was high but tho as-
cent was not steep, and 'on
the green hillside, juHt bock
from the ferry landing, could
be seen a few houses and
many gaily painted Indian
tepees. Beyond a few cattle
and ponies there was not a
sign of life about tho whole
settlement. A Battery guns
were ordered up to the
ridge and shells were thrown
across the river into the In-
■y ■ .' ■ • • dian camp, with tho effect of

' ' • ' making a number of women

•' '- and children, as well as

men, scamper up the *>ill to tho north-oost-
ward. The guns were then turnod ujion the
Council Chamber on the east side, and the
Stall with others were wotohmg tho effect
One of the guns missed firu a fow tinioH,
and tho fire slackened, utmn which, with-
out the slightest warning, a volley wu<. <irod at
the g.-onp from tho bush on tho faco of tho slope
in front, which, aided by tho wild whoop that
accompanied it, almost caused n panic, Tho
bullets went high, howovur. In ••■ thdrowing
the guns one of them caught in a tree and could
not be mo>ed. The mon ran bock into the
couUe behind and the capture of the guns seemed
certain. Captain Peters hurried forward with
the Gatling, however, when Lieutenant Howard
takug charge of it rushed it to the front be-

THE KIEL REBELLION OF 18RB.

twM^n the two gunn, and with hu Bhoul-
dor to tho oBcillatnr K^ound out a stream
of bttll» that mowed down tho very twigs

. a« if by a scythe. He and his men became
a target for the enemy, but he worked on
BH cahnly m if ut tnrgtit practice, and for ten
uiinutos thu duel Iwtween the hidden marksmen
and tlio unprotected machine gun continued.
Tht' Hhiiuts had ceased when the machine began,
and tho rifle Bro now slackened and the guns were
Kavcil, Tho (trenadicrs came up in time to have
followed up the duMioralizing fusilade of the
(intlingwith a charge down the slope into the
niuin ravine in front, but this tbn General re-
fuBwl to ordor, and they were thrown forward
lui the centre of the lino in tho inimodiate front
of tho church. The sharpshooters of the 90th
were ordered »ip on tho ridge to support tho
(iutling gtm. A Battery men nnd French's
scouts advanced toward the river down the
little coul(je behind the ridge, into which the
enemy crept by rounding the edge next the
river. The bank further back was lined by
two companies of the 90th, Tho re-
mainder of the 90th and the Winniiwg

' liattery reinforced tho Grenadiers to ?-i"^
tho right, the Midlanders being in
reserve, while Boulton's horse were at
tho extreme right. French's scouts
Boon met the enemy and a despi^rate ''

fight in tho coul(So followed. There
riiillips, of A Battery, was shot. The r,
scouts further down were very nearly
being cut oif at one time, but the
Galling was again advanced, and the
enemy fell back under its fire. The fire
now became very general. It was then
discovered that the banks of the river,
tlui small ravine and the main one, aa
well as the face of the slope were .^

entrenched with rifle pits. Long shots
were taken by rebel marksmen from
across the river at the staff who wore
at the church, and some of them
came altogether too close. An attempt
was made by the Winnipeg Battery to
shell out tho rifle pits in the main
ravine in front about noon, but with
little effect, and shortly after Boulton's
Ilorse had to repel a determined at-
tack on tho right flank. About the
same time an attempt was mode to
turn the left flank also, the rebels ad-
vancing from the ravines that ser-
rated tho bluff, but a force was sent
into a little cemetery on the bluff behind the
small ravine and this movement was checked.
During the attack on the light flank the prairie
was tired and the advance skirmishers bad ac-
tually to j ump the Ime of fire. About two o'clock
the Midlanders wore sent down the little coul^,
accompanied by Dr. Alfred Codd, and in the
face of a hot fire brought out the body of Gunner
r'.illips. Thestrength of tho rebel position began
to be realized, and after an interview with Gen-
er.il Middletou, Lord Melgund left for Ottawa,
as it was sujiposed to represent tho need for rein-
forceinonts. After tliroe o'clock the fight lan-
guished, and an hour afterward the force began
to retire to a position about four hundred yards
cast of the church, the waggons being sent for,
and a r.areeba formed. Preparations fur defence
were at ouco begun. The linos of an entreuch-
uient were marked out and by night the rear
was safely eutreuched. The losses for tha day
were one man of A Battery, (lunner Phillips,
killed, and three wounded, one man of the
Urenodiers slightly wounded and two o{ French '■

scouts, in all one man killed and six wounded.
The bravest exploit of the day was the rescue
of Cook, one of the scouts, by Captain French.
The man fell in the small ravine when the scouts
were about to retire, and his captain took him
on his back and staggered with him up the
slope amid a heavy fire. The night wag a ter-
ribly anxious one, and but few slept. All
through the weary hours the rebels kept up a
desultory fire, and one man was shot dead in
the entrenchments. Men worked hard with
pick and shovel throwing up shelter works, all
night. The teamsters turned their waggons into
covered works by digging a rifle pit beneath
them. The skill of the volunteers in this work
was said by General Middleton to be beyond
that of any regulars. On the withdrawal of the
troops, tho Metis occupied the church and school-
house, which they barricaded. That evening
Phillips was buried by hiscomradesof the Battery,
Chaplain Gordon reading to attentive listeners
the solemn service, *" I am the Resurrection and
tho Life,' he read, and a volley from the sharp-

LIEUT. A. L. HOWARD,

Commanding Maoliine Oun Platoon Second Connecticut National Ouard

shooters punctuated his words. ' It is sown in
corruption, it is raised in incorruption,' and
the rattle of the waggons coming from the front
mingled with the staccato crashes of theGatling
covering the retreat, broke^ in on his voice but
did not drown it. "

On coming into camp, Lieutenant Howard
who, with his Gatling, had saved the guns, was
received with loud cheers by the men.

The fight was renewed on Sunday morning
but without any very great vim on either side,
and was mainly confined to skirmish firing on
the [lart of the Grenadiers, In the afternoon
the Winnipeg Field Battery opened fire on
the cemetery, which was full of half-breeds,
and shelled it for some minutes, driving them
out, but the ground at the crest of the ridge was
nut re-ocoupied. An attempt to induce the
rebels to come out into the open was made dur-
ing the evening. The 90th were put into a
favorable position, and tho 90th skinnisheni
were ordered to run in. The Metis followed
them for some distance, bat the 90th opened

fire too soon, and the scheme failed. During
the day Captain French moved to the north-east
and came in behind Batoche. He found a
broad open plateau to the right of that place
and captured a number of ponies. During the
evening Dennis' Horse, a body of fifty sur-
veyors, raised by Captain Dennis, and ac-
quainted with the ground, rode into camp and
took a prominent part in tAe little skirmish
that followed the attempt to entrap the rebels.
The night passed in moderate comfort, and the
men by this time regarded the whistle of a bul-
let OS being the most natural thing possible, and
unworthy of attention.

On Monday, as the result of Captain French's
report of his detour of the day before, a recon-
naissance to the north-eastward was undertaken
by General Middleton with Boulton's and
Dennis' Horse and tho Gatling. It was
discovered that from that side Batocho was de-
fended by a line of rifle pits along a strip of
woods, which clothed the ridge between tho
plateau and the valley of Batoche, Tho party
had a little skirmish with a band of
Metis, and tho Gatling again did good
service. General Middleton, during
this affair, personally captured an
Indian, who tried to get into the woods.
In camp Lieut. -Col. Van Straubenzee,
who was in command, sent out some
guns to occupy the river ridge near tho
cemetery, which was reported to have
been deserted, but the rebels were
found there in strength and the men
came back into camp. During tho day
. there was nothing more exciting than
a constant interchange of shots be-
tween skirmishers. The Winnii)eg
Battery turned out and shelled the
west bank in the afternoon, and did a
good deal of damage. Slowly and
sullenly the men came back in the
evening, giving up the ground they
had been winning all day, and began to
make themselves as comfortable as they
could. Tho work of tho last few days
was of the most trying character, and
tho men were growing desiwrate.
That night was not a cheerful one.
Tho list of casualties that had taken
place up to that time was not a long
one, threo men being killed and fifteen
wounded.

CHAPTER XIIL

OARBIED BT BTORH,

The First Division had now been before
Batoche for threo days. They had been
marched out of the zareeba each morning, and
advanced in the face of a fire to the shelter
trenches which had been constructed along the
left and centre front, within rifle range of the
enemy's pits beneath the slope, only to be retired
at night without gaining any ground. Such work
was trying, and the men, though they marched
forward and marched back under the word of
command, did so without spirit. General Mid-
dleton, remembering that the forces whom he
commanded were not ordinary regulars, but
men whose loss would cause unutterable sorrow
throughout the whole Dominion from toe high-
est to the lowest, hesitated to order making the
sacrifice of life, which the carrying of such a posi-
tion seemed to demand. He detsrmined, there-
fore, " to keep pegging away " from behind the
entrenchments until the enemy had wasted

THE KIEL REBELLION OP 1888.

BATOCHE

w [ e

sno 1000 I50O

ENC YARDS

their ammunition, of which they were reijorted
to be short Recognizing, however, the effect
of that kind of work tiixin thonpirita of liismen,
which up to this time had been overflowing in
spite of all the difficulties and hardHhiiis of
the march, General Middleton determined
upon allowing them to strike a decided blow.
There can be no doubt that they surprised their
commander by the liberal interpretation which
they gave his order on that memorable 12th of
May before Batocho. In the morning. General
Middleton with the cavalry, the Gatling and a
detachment of A Battery with one gun, moved
out to the eastward on the extreme right front
to test the strength of the enemy's rifle pits
along the woods there and to throw some shells
into the village. The infantry, under Colonel
Van Straubenzee, took their accustomed place
in the shelter trenches at the front, the Mid-
landers at the left, the Grenadiers in the centre
and the 90th upon the right, next to some woods.
The usual exchange of shots was kept up be-
tween the bkirm' In" lines of the infantry

and the enemy in their rifle pits. On the right
t|ho skirmish became hotter than usual, and
Ki|>pen, of Dennin' S\irveyor8, was killed. The
gun of A Battery was doing damage, for a wliite
flog apiMiarod and two prisoners named Astloy
and Jackson came in with :; note to the
General;—

" SiK, — If you inassaore our families we will iMjglii by
killing Indian Agent Lasli uiiil i>tlicr iirinnncrs,

"Loum David Rieu"

The following reply was sent back by Astley,
who was on parole :

" Mn. RiF.1.,— I am most anxious to avoiil killing
women anil cliiUlrcn, and have always Uien ro. Put
women and children in Rome place and I won't harm
them. I trust to your honor not to put men with

them,

"Fbeb. Middleton,
" H%)or-Cleneral Commanding."

This and other signs of weakness on the
part of the rebels confirmed General Middleton 's
determination to ni.tke a decided advance, and
coming back to camp with his column, he gave

instructions to Colonel Van Straubenzee, who
conmiunicatod them to Colonel Williams, com-
manding the Midlanders, nnd Colonel Grasetf,
commanding the Grenadiors, The Midlandcri
were extended out to the extrenio left and
advanced to a positiim overl(K>king tho river
bank, tho Grenadinrs in the centre, fiicir.K down
the sIoi>u leading to the small ravine, and the !K)tli
to the right, Shortly after thnaction had begun,
Boulton's Horse and Dennis' Survo^ors took
tho extreme right by tho woods. Thus a lino
was completed, the left of which rested upon
the river and stretc'ied along tho whole front
for nearly a mile and a half. The Midlnmlers
on tho extreme left had advanced, firing ti|Hiu
the rifle pits on tho river hank, and though Far
in advance of tho rest of tho line they would
not bo chocked, but with a loud cheer they rush-
ed d.)wn, jumping ovor with fixed b.'tyiincls
among tho rifle pits. Tho Midlanders clenreil
tho l>.iuk of rebels right to the cem<!tsry, and
wliilo passing tho mouth of tho small ravine
they fired a volley up it, sensibly diminishinK
tho firo of tho occupants of tho |)its there. The
•jlrenadiofs had advanced from thoir shelter
trenches and were coming down tho slope to-
w.ards the ravine, to pass over the ridge ; the
firo from tho small ravine hail galled them, and
tho action of the Midland Battalion came at
the right moment. Tho right of tho Grenadiers
had swung forward and reached cover over tlin
sloiie of tho ridge in the great ravine, and they
were able to enfilade the n^arksmen in the riflo
pits on tho ravine slope, while the loft of their
line, led on by Col. Van Straubenzee, catching fire
from the Midlanders, charged the rifle pits of the
small ravine. Bayoneting the occupants, they
passed over tho ridge and joined the Midlanders,
who had been checked in their charge down, by
the fire from the slope which the rebels deserted
for tho wooded bluffs lying before the village.
The 90th extended out behind tho woods at tho
right and rushing down the slope wore met with
a fire from the rifle pits thore, which they soim
reached and cleared, however, of the relwl: , who,
joining those who had been driven by tho Mid-
landers and tho Grenadiers from the river brink
and the ravines, retreated into the covered bluffs.
One of tho guns of A Battery came up to tho
plateau of the ridge and shelled the bluffs
which tho enemy attempted to hold. The Gat-
ling gun on the right was grinding out bullets
at that part of the wooded bluffs to which
the 90th were rushing. Tho 90th, Midlanders
and Grenadiers reached the bluffs in the tiriler
named, when the Gatling ceased firo and tho
• gun was turned uis)n the village. Boulton's
men hod dismounted and, taking advantngi^ of
the oi>ening which hod been made in tlu;
line of the rifle pits by tho OOtli in their charge,
they cleared the rifle pits along the extreme
right of the slo|)e, which guarded tho trail from
the east, and which were of formidable con-
struction. These men, who crossed the series of
echeloned pits, did terrible execution with their
Winchester rifles. The 9-iiounders of the Win-
nipeg Field Battery were worked U|xin the blnffs
as the rebels, driven by the infantry, rushed for
cover to them on their hasty retreat to the village.
Between the bluffs and the village thoro was a
ploughed field, across which tho men had to ad-
vance in the face of a stiff fire from the rebels
concealed in the houses. More men were lost in
this oiieration than in the carrying of tho rifle
pits. Had the rebels not been demoralized bj<Mie
charge upon tnem in the rifle pits, which was
totally unexpected, as the clothing, rifles and
ammunition loft *here, and the loss of life in-

THR KIEL REBRLLION OF l88«.

curnid by the rebelH |iriived, the village would
probably have been more Htubbomly held.

In the very hitat of the advance a note from
Kiel wan put into (ieneral Middleton'a hands,
itn bear«T comini; right through the charging
line, Tliix note wan :

"Onntiral, your |irn[ii|tt nimwor to my not« shnwH ttiat
I wan H^lit ill tiiKiitloijinK Ut ydii the (rauM of liuiiianity.
Wi> will ^athiT our fjiiiiilieM to one place, aud aa wkjii sh
it iM tloiK' *f will It't yuu know. 1 have, etc,

(HiKiK'il), Lottia David Rikl."

On the envelojic ho had written :

" I ilfi lint like war, anil if you ilo not retreat anil ro-

fiiHi! an iii(4;rvii-w, ihu qucation reniaiua Uiu same con-

ruriiiii^ the |irii«oniTS,"
Iteforo Kiel had time to carry out hia threat,

liiiwever. the vohintoers were into the village,

nnil tliii hiiuni'B wtru l>eing carried one after

anothi'r with a ruHh. One of

tlie Krat to reach tho village wan

Captain French, one of the

heroea iif the campaign. Fired

with the glow of battle thiM

gallant aiildier, an old InHpeotor

of the Mounted Police, and

one of the most dashing men

U|Hin thu prairie, had led hia littlo

band of scouta on at the fore-
front of the charge. When the

village waH reached ho daahed

into Uatoche'H house, and, aa

he gained a window of the

aeciind storey, fell back dead,

with a bullet from the opposite

bank through hia heart Col.

Williams made a ruah for a

small house near Batoche's and

pulled up a trap door, beneath

which were Kiel's prisoners,

nine in number, all safe. The

victorious troofis rushed on for
a mile after the routed and
dispersed Metis and retired only
nt the ai)proach of darkness, to
camp in the deserted citadel of
Kiel's rebellion.

The eventful day had not
entirely passed, however, before
both the Stra. "Northcoto " and
" Marquis," the latter from
Prince Albert, api>earcd, and
the entire force waa once more
united. The day that saw the
rebellion of tho Metis crushed
forever saw the junction of Gen.
Middleton's and Colonel Irvine'a
forces, aa a body of imlicc, a
part of the garrison of Prince Al-
bert, which for two months hod
been cut off from communication
with the outer world, was u|)on the " Marquis. "
In one hour Batoche, which it was afterward
found was impregnable to an ordinary assault,
had been taken at the point of the bayonet, and
Louis " David" Kiel waa once more a homeless
fugitive.

The loss in thii gallant charge had been
heavy ; but it vrs- ■ i-i-, in view of the results
aocomplialici •■■'■ !»'ci miu: that of Fish

Creek. ^ . .itptain French, Lieutenant

Fitch, of tho (ireu^liera, went down in the front
of his charging men. Captain Brown, of
Boulton's Horse, fell while leading on hia
gallant troops upon the extreme right, and
Lilptenant Kippen, of the Surveyor*' Corps, fell
in the preliminary reoonnsiaganoe. The total loss
in killed and wounded during the four days'
fight was :

DKA1>.

James Fraaer and Hichard Hanliaty, of the Ninetieth
Winnipeg Battalion.
Lieut, A. W. Kljipen, of tho Surveyora' Corps.
Lient. W. Fitch ai;il Private Moore of tho Orcniidlers.
Captain K. T, Drown of Doiilton'a Horse.
Uiinnor Wllliuin Phillips of A Battery.
Cnjit. John French of the Hcouts.

WOllNDKri.

A Dottery— Wni. Fairliaiikii, thigh ; M. Cowley, thigh ;
Carjientler, right knee and left leg ; T. Htokea, run over
by gun i-arriage.

Orenailier»~MaJ. Dawaon, leg ; Captain Manly, foot;
Captain Magiin, hip ; Privates ni-laboro, forehead,
Hiightly ; Eager, Jaw ; II. MilHon, cheat ; A. Hanihall,
in ankle ; IlarluT, In head ; Cantwoll. hand aud thigh ;
Quigley, right aim ; Cook, arm ; Htead, arm ; Scoble,
nun ; Bugler Oaghan, hand ; (^oriioral Foley, aide.

giltli IlatLallon— Corporal Wm. Kemp, right eye ;
Kalph Barton, left hand and nock ; Erickson, left ann ;

LIEUT -COL. A. T. H. WILLIAMS,
Commanding tho Midland Battalion a*, the Battle of Batcehe.

Allan L Young, left thigh ; Sergeant Jackes, head ;
8ergeant-M^]or John Watson, hand ; Corporal James
Qillis, leg ; Private F. Alexander Wataon, neck and
cheat.

Midland Battalion— Captain Helliwell, shoulder ; Ser-
geant A. E. Christie, right arm ; Lieutenant O. B.
LaidUv, right calf; Private Win. Barton, left hip;
Corporal E. A. Helliwell, face; Color-Sergeant, Wm.
Thomas Wright, on left arm ; Private M. Dally, left
hand.

Boulton's scouts— Wm. Hope, right arm.

French's scouts— O. B. Allan, right shoulder ; R. 8.
Cook, left thigh.

Surveyors— Captain William Oonlner, shoulder ; A. D.
Wheeler, shoulder.

The rebel General, Gabriel Dumont, had
staked all upon the defence of Batoche, and the
series of rifle pita, caves and entrenchments
which he pUnued and carried out could not
have been more oarefully or skilfully laid down

by a well-trained strategist. As a garrison,
between the Metis and Indians there were five
hundred men armed with rifles, muakets and
fowling pieces, but the inferiority of their arms
was more than compensated for by the skill with
which they wore used and the strength of tho
rebel poaition. After the fight was ov.er there
were forty of their dead bodies found upon the
field of battle, and the best authorities place
their losaea at 63 killed and 173 wounded.

With the morning light came the men who
had for so long been fighting the troops, to give
up their arms and beg for mercy. Only those
who were implicated as leaders in tho rebellion
wore retained as prisoners, and tho rest were
told to go home. The whereabouts of the
leader of tho rebellion, Louis Kiel, was the
important point, and Boulton's Horse were
sent off to scour the country for
him. On the morning of the
16th, three scouts, Hourio, the
man who was the hero of the
many exploits recorded, with
Diept and Armstrong, two kin-
dred spirits, rode out, and early
in the afternoon, when some dis-
tance in front of the Mounted
Infantry, came upon three men,
one of whom, unarmed, with
unkempt hair, and without hat
or coat, was the President of
the Provincial Government of
the Saskatchewan. No resist-
ance was offered either by him-
aelf or hia armed companions,
and Kiel handed to the scouts
a letter he had received from
General Middloton promising
him protection and a fair trial.
Full of fear he came into camp
behind Hourio, and was at once
taken to General Middleton's
tent Annstrong, who took him
in, tells the story of the meet-
ing : " I said, ' General, this ia
Kiel.' The General started up,
saying, 'How do you do, Mr.
Kiel ?' ' Take a seat, Mr. Kiel. '
' Pray be seated. ' I then came
away." Of Gabriel Dumont
nothing waa heard but that he
had fought like a lion, and made
off when all was over, with the
fasteat horse on the prairie
under him, and of all hia broad
aorea, comfortable homestead
and valuable property, nothing
remained to him but hia rifle
and his pony. He reached Mon-
tana and waa arrested at Fort
Assiniboine by American officers, but hia releaee
was ordered from Washington.

CHAPTER XIV.

BUNNINO TBI GAnNTLKT.

Theateamer "Northcote," about whom safety
so very much anxiety had been felt during the
siege of Batoche, had pasaed through an ordeal
which doea not often fall to the lot of a stem-
wheel steamer. She left her anchorage ai
Dumont'a Croesing, at six on the morning
of May 9th, with orders to remain about
a mile and a half above Batoche until the
sound of the bombardment of that place by the
main column waa heard. She had been about t\ • )

THK RIKL REnET.MON OF IftWi.

hours under way when the rebcU interfered
■adiy with this prngrnniino by n|>oning fire on her,
the first shot iHUHinj; through the pilut-houae. A
perfect storm of halls fol'iwed thia 8!){nal ithot.
From bush and tree, b or and ravine, a hail
of musketry and rifle >vas (Kiurod upon her,

and lier light up|>cr worn.^ Muto B|ioedily riddled.
From the well protected lower deck, the barges
alongside and the pilot house a steady fire was
kept up by the men of C Company, who formed
the fighting crew. The sick men, among them
being Lieut. Hugh A. Hovdonald, son of the
Premier, left their berths to uiie rifles. The few
civilians on board passed ammunition or fought,
Tlie pilots. Captains Soeger and Sheets, although
their shelter was ])Oor, never lost control of the
boat. Just above Batoche there is a piece of
swift water, almost deserving the name of a
rapid, and a long bar, jutting out into the stream,
left but a narrow channel close to the western
bank. This was just at the turn in the river
above Batoche, and in passing it the bow of the
boat almost grazed the shnal in front of a deep
ravine. From this |>lace, which
was full of men, a terrible raking
fire was poured into the boat,
but so strong were her defences
that it did but little damage.
When opposite the church, the ■

crew saw banging to a tree, on " -

the west bank, the body of a
man, but who this victim of the
rebellion was, and why he was
executed,have never been discov-
ered. At Batoche the enemy
made their appearance in force,
but they were speedily driven
to cover by the steady fire from
the boat.

Under full steam and with the
impetus of the swift current the
steamer rushed on, and as she
neared the Crossing the steel
cable of the ferry was suddenly
lowered. It just grazed the
lofty pilot-house, sending all the
forward spar gear down, and
then catching the smoke-stacks,
toppled them over on the hurri-
cane deck with a crash. Had
the cable been dropped a little
lower it would have caught the
pilot-house, and the disabled
boat would probably have been
captured. An instant after, in
order to avoid a couple of boulders, the boat was
thrown over, and she swung completely round
and for an instant one scow grazed the bank.
The enemy made a rush to board her but were
driven back by a withering fire from the rifles.
At nine o'clock the rebel fire suddenly ceased.

For one hour, while traversing a distance of
about five miles, the boat had been under a per-
fect storm of fire. Over two miles below the
enemy's position she came to anchor, almost
helpless. The crew were at once set to work
and the smoke-stacks were shortened and put up.
This work was hardly completed before fire was
again opened uiion the boat, and the workmen
were driven from the exposed deck, nor would
they venture upon it again to repair the whistle,
by which only communication with the main
column could be maintained. An oCFer of fifty
dollars apiece to the two men who would under-
take to replace it brought two men forward, and
they had hardly fitted it in place when a volley
drove them below. Signaling could be resumed,
however, but the only answer was the heavy

cannonading from Batoche, Major Smith, the
commanding oflnoer. Captain Wise, A. I). C,
and Mr. Bedson, an invaluable oflicer of thu
tranB|x>rt service, held a council of war and
decided to return, but the ofliccrs of the boat
refused t<i do ho, stating that the wheel was so
badly protected that the pilot would certainly
bo shot, and, moreover, that the written orders
of the General forbade such action. Kddics, a
private of the 90th, and an old steamboater, gal-
lantly volunteered to pilot the boat back, but his
offer was not accepted. Although the pilot-
house was pierced in a number of places none
of its oocui>ants were wounded, though Captain
Seegar's coat-sleeve was shot through. Only
three men were wounded, and that but slightly ;
Pringle, a member of the ambulance corps, was
shot through the shoulder ; Vinen, of the trans-
port service, through the thigh ; and Lieutenant
Macdonald slightly. During the night an alarm
was given, and a volley was poured into the boat
from the west bank, to which no reply was
given. Sunday was passed at anchor, with no

DR. DOUGLAS, V.C.,
In charge of thu Anibulaace Corps iu the North-West

news of Gen, Middleton, and nothing more excit-
ing occured than an interchange of shots with the
enemy. An attempt to make the pilot-house
impregnable failed, owing to the ever watchful
enemy opening fire upon the exposed workmen,
and it was decided to run down to Pritchard's
Crossing where a number of Mounted Police
were known to be. After anchoring for the
night she arrived there during Monday after-
noon, and upon the arrival of the steamer * ' Mar-
quis" from Prince Albert, the two steamers
made their way up the river, arriving just in
time to take their share, not in the tight but, in
the general rejoicing that followed the capture
it Batoche.

CHAPTER XV.

FRINCX ALBIBT.

So thoroughly had the first division done its
work when Riol was brought into camp, that
upon May 16th General Middletou moved to

Guardapuy's Crossing, with the entire force,
leaving Father Vcgrcvillo as the Queon'H ropro-
suntativi^ for the occaHiim to accept the Hurrender
(if the roiHintant robcls. From i?very house ami
cart, even from the hats of the nun and the gar-
ments of the women, fluttered uhite Hags as tho
umblvms of iieaco. The battle st.- ndaid of " Ljk
Mation Mutiuse," a white tablecloth with a col-
oured print of tho Virgin upon it, which had
fallen into the i>ossession of Lieutenant Howard,
was an object of curiosity to all thu camp, At
Batoche there was collected a groat nunilN'r
of families, from whom the ravages of war had
taken father, husband, brother, or mm, and who
wore in the greatest distress. They .appealed to
the General for protection, and Mr. Bedsiui, the
chief of tho transport service, and one of tho
mainstitys of the exi>edition, himself took up
sixteen waggon loads of flour, bacon, tea, and
sugar to them,

Tho battle rage had passed away from both
thn combatant forces, and upon thu sup|>orters
of this lost cause there had fallen a great sor-
row. The men who had fought
so desperately in tho rifle pits at
Fish Creek and Batoche, in
almost every instance, declared
moodily that they had been
. forced on to fight by their lead
ers, and could give no intelligi
ble motive for their action ; but
in this they were not peculiar,
as the rank and tile of a relmllion
havo but seldom revealed to
:- their conquerors tho reasons

which moved them to striko.
The prisoners who had been so
long confined iu the rebel camp
had not been harshly treated up
f \ to the time of the battle of Ba-

\ toche, when they were placed

^ in a cellar, but all had sufTorod

; . greatly from close c<infinomeut,

monotonous food, and tho con-
stant fvar that Riel, whom they
looked upon as insane, would
condemn them to death. There
were in all nine of them released
by tho troops :— Mr. J. B. Lash,
thu Indian agent .it Carletun ;
Wm. Tomkins, his interpreter ;
Peter Tomkins, the interpreter's
cousin, and J. McKuan, tele-
graph repairers ; Harold R<'sh,
the de|)uty sheriff of P r i n c o
Albert ; William Astley, a Dominion Land
Surveyor j Edward Woodcock, who had been
in charge of a store at Hoodoo ; A. W.
McConnell, one of General Middleton's ecouts,
captured when endeavouring to carry de-
spatches into Prince Albert, and J. E. Jack-
son, a brother of that Jackson who was tho first
to give his adherence t J Ricl's strange creed and
who became his private secretary. All of these
prisoners — except the scout—had lieeu captured
before the Duck Lake fight, and iu nearly every
case they had been surjirised and seized before
they could offer resistance. During the first
fortnight's existence of the Government of tho
Saskatchewan, quite a number of prisoners had
been seized and subsequently liberated ; among
them were a number of half-breeds who refused
to take up anus, and as a general rule these men
swore allegiance. Two of them, Nolin and
Marion, deserted upon the first op|K)rtunity , ind
Nolin was captured by the garrison of Prince
Albert where he had the reputation of being the
real instigator of the armed rising. The ar-

TIIK ItlKIi liKliKUiloN or iwr..

cliivus of tho rebel government had been captured
by Captain Peters, of A Battery, wlio placed
them Ml tho Ounurai'd hands. l''rom the written
miuutuH of the council and numerous documents
it was manifest that the battle of Duck Lake
had been but the first step in a movement for
tho capture of Carleton, and the subsequent
seizure and s|xiilin^ of undefended Prince Albert.
From tho time tho column left Touchwood its
every movement had been watched, the number
of men, guns, and horses reiieatedly ascertained,

and a complete and accurate plan of the camp at
Clarke's Crossing, in which every fire trench was
niarkixl, was among the documents. A plan had
been arra..ged for an attack upon the zareeba at
Batoche in the grey of the Wednesday mcjriiing,
when an attempt would have been made to pass
the pickets, stampede the horses, and attack the
trrxipg amid the confusion at close quarters.
The bayonet charge that carried the ride pits
twelve hours before they intended to attempt
this programme, was the unforeseen event upon

which it went to piecoH, and
so th<iri>ughly protected was
tlie camp that it is very im-
probable that it could have
succeeded. Some twenty
men, who had taken too
prominent a part as leaders
of tho revolt for their own
good, wore held as i)riBoners.
Those were Maximo Ltpinc,
of St. Boniface ; Andrew
Nolin, the rebel commissariat
officer ; W. H. J. Jackson, a
young Canadian, and Kiel's
private secretary ; Francis
Tourand, who fought in tho
three tights, and was one
of the guards of the pris-
oners ; Maxime Fider, who
voted for tho shooting of the
prisoners ; Pierre Henry,
who did the same thing;
Patrice Touron, who shot
Captain Morton at IJtick
Lake ; Baptiste Pocholot,
the captain of the guard
over the i)risoners ; Albert
Monkman, a leader at Duck
Lake and a member of the
council ; Emmanuel Cham-
paign and Joseph Pilon,
captains of rebel companies ;
Moise Parentot, an irrecon-
cilable, who took a prominent
part in the Red River re-
bellion ; Alexander Fisher,
receiver-general of the rebel
government; Baptiste Ven-
due, captain of a company ;
Alex. Lombombark, a Sioux
interpreter who wasHU)>po8ed
to have induced White Cap
to Bupj)ort Riel ; Ignace
Poitras, one of the veterans
of the Red River trouble,
and his son, who wore
amongst the guards over
the prisoners ; Pierre and
Alexandre Parentot, who
demanded an aiipeal to arms ;
Maxime Dubois and J. De-
lorme, members of the guard
over prisoners, and M, Jubin,
member of the council.

On the 18th of May the
steamer " Northoote " was
despatched toSoskatoon with
the wounded, and on board
of her Louis "David " Riel,
under the guard of Captain
John Young and a small
party, began his journey to
Regina, where he was to be
placed under the charge of
the Mounted Police to await
his trial. Upon the 18th tho
Midlanders, reinforced by
tho arrival of the two companies stationed (or
some time at Clarke's Crossing, were sent to
form the advance guard of the force during
the march to Prince Albert, and all that
day the tedious work of ferrying the long column
and its tranajrart across the river went on.
There had been gathered at Ouardupuy's Cross-
ing at one time no fewer than five steamers : the
" Alberta," " Baronops " and " Minnow," of the
Gait fleet having joined the " Northcote," and
the " Marquis." With the river full of stem-

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wheeleni, and the camp of a thousand ini'n at
the CroBsing, the once solitary place ha<l bwn
for two days a centru of hri'athleiiH activity.

All thix vanished on the evening of the 18th,
and the march to Prince Albert was begun
by the victorious troops, who easily overcame
both distance and ditKculty. It was about
twelve of the clock on a beautiful spring
day, tlie 19th of May, that the head of the
dusty, travel-stained, yet quick marching and
light-hearted column poured into the long
isolated town of Prince Albert. Every soul
in tlio toWi! was out to welcome them with
great cheers and with the music of a brass band.
The local com|>any who had given at Duck
Lake ten of theirnuml)er to the list of the dead,
ap|)earcd with the colored ribbons of tlicir com-
pa!iy in their hats, and the Mounted I'olicc,
looking neat and clean in bright scarlet timics
and well polished btHits, presented arras to
the General. The hard-worked volunteers in
their ragged uniform»,
and with their well-used
but not shining arms,
presented a contrast as
complete as outward ap-
pearance could make it to
the " gophers," as the
troops speedily named the
Mounted Police at Prince
Albert, who they though t
resembled those prairie
dwellers that never venture :
far from their holes and
always \mp into them on
the slightest appearance

of danger. The clothing ^__:^-

of the troops hod not been
new when the campaign
began, and the vicissitudes
of the march, the camp
and the battlefield had
completely demoralized it.
After Fish Creek there
had been much patching
of uniforms, and after Ba-
toche many a man was glad
to tie his uniform together
with blanket strips. Col.
Irvine, who hod the re-
putation of being a most
dashing officer, had good
reason for the long in-
activity of the three hun-
dred Mounted Police under
his command. The long,
straggling town of Prince
Albert, even with the church and manse con-
verted into a citadel by piles of cordwood, was
a most difficult position to defend, and had the
police left the valley its protectors would have
had only ninety stand of arms, but fifty of
which were rifles. A movement upon Batoche
on his part would have brought about a battle in
the thick fir woods which lie between Prince
Albert and that place, in which the superitir
numbers of the enemy could have been so
brought to bear as to completely destroy the
force at his command. Gen. Middleton decided
to push on to Battleford, which appeared to be
again shut in by the Indians. The York and
Simcoe regiment had been sent on to Hum-
boldt, where the Governor-General's Body
Guard, under Colonel Denison, were doing
picket duty, to cut ofiF stragglers endeavouring to
escape to the south, and the 7th Fusiliers were at
Clarke's Crossing, having descended the river
from Swift Current on barges. It was decided

to leave the Wiuni|icg Fiold Battery at Clarke's
Crossing as an addition to tlie police garrison,
which was to bo undisturlred. These converg-
ing bodies of triHips made it imiMissible for any
band of irreconcilables to do any damage to other
than scattered settlers. On the 20th a body of
fourteen men of the Govornor-Cienoral's B(x]y
Guard, after a two days' chase, captured White
Cap and twenty-two of his braves, while on
their way towards their reservation south of
Saskatoon, uiiil brought them to Hunib<jldt.
Gabriel Dumont was now the only rebel chief at
largo, and ho was captured by the American
scouts on the Milk River, about the 23rd. Ho
was titken to Fort ABninilxiine, and the Secretary
of State communicated with. After some days,
orders wore sent to release him, as he was a
political prisoner ; and the bravest, most skilful,
and most manly of the rebel leudurHdisapiwarud.
Beardy, tho chief of the maleontcnls at Duck
Lake, hod already surrendered to General Mid-

lotter dictated by Poundmaker, written by Jef-
ferson, his farm instructor.

Kaiii.e Ilti i.x, Miiy III, iss.t.
HiK.- I nm <<ani|>F<l with iny |x'i>|ili'ut t\w f«st ■ ml of
thu KatiUt MIIIm, wlirrn I nui met Willi tlii! n<'HHi<r tliu
Hiirri'iiiliTor Kiel. No Irtlor ciimo with thu iii'»«, ht< triu>. I mini khihk
iif my iniTi 111 ynii to Uvini thii triitli iiiiil tin' liiiii«iir
Itmcii, ami lii)i>M you will ili>nl kintlly with tln'iii, I ,-iii>l
my iu'n|ili) wIhIi yiiti to st-nil us llm Iitiiih or |<t-ari> in
writing HO th.it wo may ho iiinlrr no niisiiinlrrHliiniliiit;,
frnm wlilrh HO much troiilihi uriHi'H, Wi> h;ivo twi'iity-
uDo iiriwoiirrn, whnlt* wc Jmvu tricii to trt-at wull In cvury
ri'sjurt. WitliBrocitiiig, hi.i

rill'NUHAKKK, X

mark.
To (ieiiural Mlildloton, Duck Ijiko.

The General at once entrusted to Poinid-

maker's ambassadors tho following answer : —

Htkamkh Noitriiwi-.i. May if;i, isns.

riU'NliMAKKii,-- i havi' utlirly ilcfi al.il tlni halriiri'i'ilH

ami Iiiilians al II:itni-lif'H, ami havo iiwule ]>rlKiiin>tH uf

Hid ami iiionI of his nmin'il. I lia\'o liiailn no tvrmti

with thciii, iiuithcr will 1 make tcrniH with yon. I havo

lii™ tnoiigh to ih'Htroy y ni

ami your iicoph', or, at leant,

1(1 ililvii you away to slarvi'.

ami will do HO uiilf'iiH you liilng

iu tho tcaniH you took, ami

yourself ami couni-lllorH to

moet mo with yourarmiiatllat-

tlorordnnTiiesilay, 'i6lh. lam

glud to hoar that you Irealcd

tho iirisouors well, and havo

released tliom.

I"'ked. Minni.KToN,

Major-Gener-al.

Upon the 23rd, Colonel
Van Straubenzee, who re-
mained in command at
I'rince Albert, despatched
tho llOth up the river on
the "Alberta" and "Bar-
oness," and, with the
Grenadiers, niarclied over-
land to rinrleton to await
the arrival of the "Jlar-
quis." That steamer not
coming up, however, ho
crossed tho rivvr with bin
column and tho tranB|Hirt,
and pushed forward by the
north irail.

DR. BEROIN,

Surgeou-acueral o{ thu Cauadlue Militia.

leton, pleading for mercy and favor because he
had been too cowardly to fight. He was
stripped of his medals and also deixised
from his chieftainship. On the 22nd of May
General Middleton started westward with the
" Northwest," the fastest and most powerful
boat on the Saskatchewan, and, inasmuch as
she had been taken up the grand rapids of the
Saskatchewan, a boat with a history. Besides
the General's personal stall, there were on board
the Midlandcrs, 233 men and 23 oflicers ; A
Battery, one gun, CO men ; Boulton's Horse, 60
men and 5 officers, and the Uatling gun. When
what was once Fort Carleton was reached, a
little party were brought up to the General by a
detachment of Mounted Police sent out to seize
the place the night before. This party of three
were comjiosed of a young Indian, a nephew of
Poundmaker, Alexander Cadiou, a half-breed,
and Jefferson, the farm instructor on Pound-
maker's reserve. They brought with them a

CHAPTER XVI.

POtJKDMAKKH'.tSUHHKNDKR.

At Battleford tho mm
of the Second Division had
laid the seven loyal dead, of the fight at Cut
Knife, beside the two first victims of Pouird-
maker's rising, and then settled (luictly down to
garrison life and its duties. A long line of pickets
had to be maintained, entrenchments thrown up,
rifle pits dug, and fatigue service of all kinds per-
formed. Another bastion was erected, and a
broad ditch dug entirely around the fort, tho
earth from it being piled up against the stock-
ade until that somewhat flimsy defence became
a veritable earthwork. Tho meniliers of the fly-
ing column, which fought at Cut Knife, vied with
one another in the narratives of the fight they
related to their less. fortunate comrades who had
not been at tho battle, and this and the rations
furnished tho great staple of conversation. The
men had now been living for nearly two months
upon an almost unbroken diet of hard tack,
" bully " beef and pork. The beef was fat and
stringy, the [x>rk was not fat [lork, but pork fat,
and many a man who had supported the long

»a

THK RIKFi RKUKIilJON OK 1««.

march, Uin ittoiidy TiKlit, t>in cmntlom (liacnDi'
fiirU unci cniintaiit Inlxir of tliu «x|irditkin
witliimt a fttlUr nr a iiiiirniiir, wuh comiiollod to
livti fur (luyn nn liroiul aloiio, Hjiiiply becaimo he
ciiiilil not u;it thn iiirat rutioiii. Htill tho men's
Hpiritii dill not fail tlicni ; they played crickut,
lacroKHr and <iU(iitK with tri'inendous onorKy,
when not at work, and 8anf( all thu t>ld mmKii
and tlic) ni!W ouuii uver and over again. But
whun tliuy Han^

" Tin- Qiici'Ii'h Own arc Kf!ttf»K loan,
llut tliu |>cirk kvcin uii ita fat ;"

to thii choniK of "You can bet your boots on
lliat," tliiy meant it. On May 12th, a young
half l>ri'i'<I iiamt'd iSamuol Di-niaun, accuHcd of
"Kivi"K faliw) information with intent to Uiad
Her !M»je»ty'i< forcex into a trap," wan brought
iH'fiire Innpt'ctor Dickunn, thu Henior officer of
tliii Miiunled I'oliee in the fort, and that gentle-
man exphiined to him that he waa charged
with " high treaouu, HcUitiuu, couapiracy and

gonii, and about thren hundrad ronndi of ammuni-
tion. Hardly had tho newi of thia aure indication
that the Indiana had moved eaat in force, bonn
bniuglit in, than a party of the Mounted I'olice,
who had been out on a scouting expedition, rodo
in from the aouth with the information that they
had been attacked and had lost a man. Tho little
party, made up of Conatable* Robertson,
8i>enoer, Elliott, Allan and Storer, under Ser-
geant Gordon, with a half-breed scout, had
reached a |>oint oorao diatance from oamfi on the
Stinking Lake trail, when a body of thirty
Indiana rode up on a ridga before (hem and
opened fire. The little party wheeled at once,
as the enemy had the advanta|{e of both num-
bers and (waition, and in the gallop back to
Battleford one of the men, Elliott, loat his seat.
Ho was a young man, an American by birth,
the son of a Now England clergyman, who had
served in the regular cavalry of the United
States, and seen much hard service. As a result
of bis army training, be always rode with long

Eaglo Hilla, BO that it was thought Pmmd-
maker had taken refuge in their fastnettHes.
On the morning of the 20th a little "outKt"
of four waggons, over which flow a white
flag, appeared u|>on the crest of the hilla,
coming slowly towards Battleford by the Swift
Current trail, and an escort was at once sent
out. It proved to be an embassy from Pound-
maker to Colonel Otter, asking for terms of sur-
render, and the letter, carried by Father Cochin,
the Cur^ of Bresaylor, was accompanied by
twenty-one teamsters captured tho week pre-
viously, Lafontaine, tho acout, who was captured
wlifle reoonnoitering after Cut Knife Hill, and
about half a dozen of tho suspected half-breeds of
Bresaylor. Those last claimed that they had been
held as prisoners by the Indians, but this it is an
article of the crood of the North-weston to dis-
bclievo. Colonel Otter, not knowing that Poun(f-
maker had already communicated with General
Middleton, told him, in answer to tho peace pro-
posal, that be muat treat with the Ueneral him-

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rebellion, which was rather serious," The man
was remanded, and subsequently released on
parole, while of tho other prisoners, Lyon
Short, Alex, Bremner, James Noli n, jr., Duncan
Nolin, Peter Sinclair, Jos. Ducharmo, and Jos,
Vaudral, wore released. This did not constitute
an entire gaol delivery , aa six priaoners, including
one Godfrey Marchand, charged with selling
arms to the Indians, were still retained in con-
finement. Uiwn the IDth, u mail-carrier, named
Killougli, rode into camp and reported that a
wiiKgon train had that day boon captured by the
Indiana. The train of eighteen ox-teams and
eight liofHo- waggons was passing through the
reserve of Mosquito, where Payne had been
murdered, about eight miles from Battleford,
when a bouy of fifty Indians suddenly came
u|K)n them. Those of the men who conld, aomo
eight or ton, cut loose their horses and galloped
for safety along the Swift Current trail, the re-
mainder submitting without a blow, and giving up
some fifteen stand ot arms as well as thoir wag-

FORT SASKATCHEWAN,
A (ortiUed mlllUrr post near Edmonton.

Stirrups and a military seat, and it was because
of this he fell from the saddle. He sprang into
the bush and escaped from the first band of
Indiana only to fall in with another, and they
ahot him in the back. Upon the following
day, a party of scouts, under Ross, who had
gone out on the 12th, returned with definite
information to the effect that Poundmaker
had abandoned his camp at Cut Knife Hill,
and with a large force, about a thousand in all,
which would include three hundred warriors,
and with a large herd of cattle was moving east
in the direction of the Eagle Hills. A day
later the body of Elliott was brought intocamp by
Ross and his scouts. They had found it wrapped
in a canvas tarpaulin, and buried with some
care under a little mound of aand. That day it
was laid by the side of the other nine victims
of tho Battleford campaign. Although there
had been several alarms in the fort no Indians
were seen by this party. A fire had been
seen gleaming out iiom the ridges of the

self. The teamsters had not been badly treated,
but owed their lives directly to tho exertions of
the priest, Poundmaker, and th<. half-breeda,
who had much ado to prevent the Stonoya from
murdering them. Throughout these Indians
had created the moat trouble. They were tho
firat to plunder and murder, and, after the Cut
Knife Hill fight, it was their endoraation of
Rlel's requeat for aesistance which induced
Poundmaker to move eastward. Tho news of
Riel's capture thoroughly frightened Pound-
maker and all his men, who at once laid down
their rifles, washed off their war paint and stuck
up a long pole with a Union Jack upon it in the
middle of the camp.

On Sunday evening, the 24th, the "North-
west " reached the landing at Battleford, after
a long day's run, and the troops passed the
night on board. Next day they wore marched
into camp at the barracks, Battleford was again
relieved, and the Second division became merged
in the First.

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THE niF.r, UKELRLION OF ISSl.

•'

On tlio morning <if tlin 20tli ii{ May u buUy uf
160 ii( tho lialfbrooils of llreflaylor came in and
Kavo up their arma and nnimunitidn, wliich they
declared they had novor unod. A littln later
I'oundmaker, with liia |><'r>|ilt>, alxiiit two hun-
dred of whom wore wariimx, nrrivcfl and f^avu
up their arma, two hundred stand in all, nf
every imaginable kind.

No terms of surrender hod been agreed upon,
and General Middleton, in tho long pow-wow
which he held with tho chiefH, would grant none,
Hu upbraided tho Indians for their ingratitude
in rising against the Govcnmicut, their coward-
ice and their lies, and demanded from them thn
murderers of Payne and Fremont. Puundmaker,
who did most of tho talking on thu
Indian aide, declared that he never
intended to join Riel, bectuse the
Motia had not ammunitinn enough,
that ho had only fought when fired
upon, and that ho knew nothing of
tho murders. With the utmoat
nonchalance tho chief aaid in roi>ly
to tho allegation that ho waa a
coward and a rebel :

"lamaorry. I feel in my heart
that I am such a person as I am,"
Ikta, tho man who had murdered
Payno, and Wa Wanick, the mur-
derer of Fremont, camo out from
among tho rest at last and gave
themaelves up, confessing tlieir
guilt Poundmaker, Yellow Mud,
Blanket, Breaking-through-tho-Ice,
and the two murderora, were re-
tained as prisoners, and the band
were sent upon a reservation where,
deprived of all their anna and f(Mid,
they were absolutely dependent
uimn tho military authorities for
sustenance,

Poundmaker'a surrender at once
re-established peace in tho Battle-
ford district ; every trail was re-
opened, and the settlers at once
began to visit their ruined home-
steads and collect what remnants
remained of their live stock. Tho
troops from Prince Albert rapidly
gathered at Battleford. Onthe2Gth
the "Baroness" arrived with the
now famous 00th, tho fighting ro- . ^
giment, whom General Middleton /^^t
had pivudly called "My Ultlo ^'^^
Devils," »nd on the 27th the 10th '
Royal Grenadiers, C C(mipany,
and the .'ong train of transport
waggons arrived on the north
shore of the Saskatchewan, having
marched from Carleton in two days.
The " Alberta " with supplies and a
))ortion of A Battery, came in next
morning. The regiment of Canadian
artillery was iherefore united, with a total
strength of some two hundred and thirty men
ai d officers, with four guns and two Gatlings,
ai.d Company became whole once more. In
all, a force of 1,195 infantry, 250 artillery with
four guns, two Gatlings, and 270 cavalry were
concentrated at Battleford, Besides these troops
the 7th Fusiliers and the tvo remaining com-
panies of the Midlanders, adding 350 men to the
force, were ordered forward from Swift Current,
and it was therefore quite safe to allow the Bat-
tleford rifles to be disbanded. Colonel Scott's
battalion, which had lain in garrison so long at
Qu'Appelle and along the railway line in that
vicinity, was also ordered forward, the right

wing tiigurrisoiiapostiii the vicinity of Batoche,
and the left to pri>coof tho circumatance
being carefully hidden, but tho act revealed the
dangerous character of the sottliTs' feelings
towards tho Indiana. A more pleasant incident
was tho meeting with Chief Moosomin,
whoso reservation was just west of Battleford,
who had kept the Queen's iwace. The General
shook hands with him, something ho hadrofuaod
to do with any other Inilian, and hod a long con-
versation with tho old man, who told him that ha
was busy sowing some seed at Turtle Lake when
the outbreak took place, but Big Boar's threat!

and supplies to (ieneral Strange, under u guard
of 25 of the UOth, and it was announced that
when this detachment returned, tho voternn
'JOth, who hud been under arms ainee the 2:ird
of March would return home. Tlie speedy com'
plotion of tho campaign was ex|Hctid by nil,
and already it had been mcntiinicd in gi'inTuI
orders that volunteers who were not bank or
civil service clerks would l)0 reipiired t" fiTui
garriaona in tho West for a short tinin »tlor
thu regular bodies of troops had left it.

ClI.U'TKRXVn.

TUB BIO TKAB lU'NT.

LIEUT.-COL. G. E. A. HUGHES,

Brigade Major ot ttie 6th Military District. Commander of the 6Sth CoDttngent

with Qeaerel Htrange.

drove him from his fields, and he had to take
refuge in the south-west. lie waa assured of
the Government's protection, allowed to retain
his arms, and promised seed and food. General
Middletim at once aet about organizing a body
of horse to join the Third Division (m the march
to attack Big Bear, of whose quiet surrender all
hope was lost. It was discovered that only
about half of Poundmaker'a men had actually
laid down their arms, the young men and
desperadoes having taken the best weaixms,
and gone off in little knots and bands to
join Big Bear, the only insurgent left in the
west. On the 29th the Str. " Northwest" left
Battleford to carry a quantity of ammunition

General Strange stayed his maroh
at Victoria for only three dnya, but
short as was the tiiiio it waa quite
sufficient to l)eget in the ineii of the
Tliird Division an abiiost mutinous
desire to advance and begin their
work of rescuo and puniHliment.
There were over aixtyfive white
prisoners in Big lieur'a cniup, of
whom thirty were women and chil-
dren. At that time thi^ most hor-
rible atories of the treatment of the
captives were in circulation and
were believed. But one hundred
and twenty-nine niilea separated the
force from the helpless prisoners
and their captors, so that every hour
ot inactivity seemed a condemna-
tion of the captives to fresh cruel-
ties, and a delay and chance of
escape from punishment for the In-
diana. Major Steele with his acouts
and policemen had occupied Vic-
toria on May 18th, and had at mice
sent forward five scouts to follow
the trail to the eastward for soiiio
distance. These men did not return
when night came, and Lieutenant
Coryell with ten men was sent out
to look them up. Tho next (hiy
went by and neither of thise
scouting parties had returncil.
Major Steele, believing that tho
scouts hud been ambushed and cap-
tured, reported tho facts to General
Strange on his arrival, as evidenco
that tho enemy must bo within
striking distance. Uii the morning
of May 20th camp was struck, and
the 6.5th embarking in tho f1at-l)ot-
tomcd Imats went down the niirth
Saskatchewan river while thu '.iL'nd
with the waggons followed the
trail. The march was during rainy
weather, over soft ground and
through almost impassable coulees, but it
was forced by the men of the 92nd, who
were anxious to get forward, and Major Steele's
camp near Saddle Lake, 32 miles east, was
reached on May 2l8t. The large settlement here
had been suddenly deserted and largo quantities
of abandoned provisions woie found ; a halt was
called, that these might bo loaded on the waggons,
and on the same day Lieut. Coryell's party of
scouts, who had been so long missing, came into
camp almost exhausted from fatigue and stirva-
tion, having been without food for two days.
They had pushed on to Frog Lake, about
sixty-five milea east of the camp, and had
there seen the bodies of the massacred men.

THR KIEL UEBELLION OF 188/1.

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l>iit liixl Mwii III! liaiiH. Tliry fiiuiiil u trail
iivur whirl) n lar^'f milfit liiid piinM'd, riiiiiiiiik(
lowuriU till' noiitli ivtiit, uiid it wim c'liiijiKtiiri^l
that till! ImliiiiiH liuij imivi'l in a iHKly taiit of till' ('uiii|i.

Will II till! coliiiiin liftltod Rt V'ictiiriik, (hnUi'v.
('iiniiii Miic'kiiy, nf Kurt McLikkI, with k Ifttlii
Uidy iif IniHty liiilfbrriit HciiutH, liml iiuxlii'il mi
iijKiii ;t (liniKriitti crruiKl. \Vlii!ii tliu t<irrililu
riiiiiiirK iih til tliii fntu (if tlin iiriHimum in U'nf
IIiiiii'h IuiikIh iH'C'iiinii proviilmit, tliiu liruvn
cli'iyymitii, u Im, huviiiK Iiidiim lilniid in hiH nwii
viiiiiH, mid |uiMii>HMinK tliiiri>ii)(li kiiiiwU<dK«<if In-
iliun rlmra"'"r mid wiiyB, li»d great iiifliii^ncc
iiviT thi'iii, iiiriri'd til h'li intii Dig limtr'H cniiip
find rmiHiiiii tlio iiriHiini^rn. Nii infumiittiiin n*
U) liiw party waa bmuglit in by LifUtununt

that tliu Iludwm'ii Uuy Ci>ni|>any hod \indur-
tuki'ii tliu rcnciin <if tliu priMuniTH. IIii hat!
viHitiid Friig Iiaku and fiMiiid Buvrn ImdicH.
Stri'lo at riiici' pii.slird fnrward tn Frog Laku,
and thon nn liy llin trail lift hy tliu Iiidiaim tii
Oniiiii Laku, w'lrru it tiirnud ti> tliu coHtward.
Ill' fiilliiwud tliix trail until it iH'caniitindiHtiiict,
and tlirn tnrnid to IiIh right and canipcd at
Kurt Pitt, lino day in advancu uf tlin culunin.
Tliuy fiiiind thu liiHly uf the liravu lad Ciiwan,
killud in thu attack upon Furt I'itt, lying nn-
biiriud whuru hu full. Ainuiig thu Plain Croun,
thoru JH nil iiiudicinu mi imtunt, nu chariii hu
grunt, an tlio huart of a bruvii fuo, and they had
taken puur Ciiwan'H lioart frum hi« Ixidy, thuH
bearing uvrduiicu, even by that brutality, to thu
liiinnr uf hiH duatli. TJpiin the 24th thn lirilh
ri'uulied Furt I'itt by river and uu thu Bauiu

FORT RED DEER.

(Prom a sketch li; an OfScer ot the C5th RciiiiniMit, b; whom the Fort wu built at Red Deer River,

on their iimrch to Kdmotiton. )

Coryell, and much anxiety was felt for his fato,
Thu dusoriptiiiuH uf thu mutilated bodies at
Frug Lak'i bruught by the scouts fired tlio
already indignant men and that afternoon they
inarched tu Egg Lake, a distance of fifteen miles,
in a pelting rain. Captain Oswald was at once
pushed forward, with a jmrty of fifteen scouts,
with orders to follow up the trail to the smith-
east, and M.ijor Stoele, with the horse, fuUiuvud
hard after upon the following morning. The
fiSth in thn scows were making much better
progress than the marching column and hod
reached St. Paul on the night of the 2l8t.
They found the neat little half-brocd settlement
entirely abandoned. The party under Major
Steele were pushed rapidly on and at Moose
Hill Creek found the Rev. Canon Mackay,

night the 92nd cami)ed neor, thirty-five miles
west on the Saskatchewan river. The 92nd
joinetl the O.'ith at Fort Pitt next day, ond
the Third Division was ready for action within
roach of the enemy. Scouting parties were
sent out in every direction to hunt up Big
Boar. Twenty -five men, under Inspector Peters,
were ferried across the river to follow up a trail,
brood and well marked, in which could be
distinguished the prints of women and children's
booted feet among those of moccasins, which
led eastward. For 46 miles the trail was
folIow<!d and then it was lost, and the men
reached Battleford on May 28th. The search
for the Indians in the vicinity of Fort Pitt was
vigorously pushed by Major Steele. This gal-
lant officer, who had worked his way up

his intrepid conduct, great energy and rOHources,
hail been selected to ciiniinand the ikuimIh of tli"
expeditiun iH'cause of his kn'iwledge if the
ciiiintry and of the nurtheni Indians On llin
L'tltli, a party uf his scuutH fell in with nn Indian
piekot aUiUt thirteen miles frum thu ciiiiip,
whuni they killed while nttenipting his cnpliiie.
Majur Steele fulluwed this man's tracks fur two
miles and discuvered the Indians, wliu by a
skirmish were fuund tube in a strong positiun
and in considerable force. On the fulluwiiig
day. May 27th, General Htrango muvuil < iit uf
canipat Fort Pitt with twucuinpnniesuf thu (l.Mh
of Montreal, under Lieutenant Cul. llll^;hes, 90

strong ; two c panics uf the 92nd uf Winnipeg,

Lieut. Cul. Smith, 90 strong ; the AllMTta
"luunted Infantry, the Alberta mounted rillus,
Major Patun, 60 strong j one gun, a nine pound-
er, in command of Major
Perry, with twenty police-
men, and Steele's scouts,
making a force of 450 men.
The country tliruugh which
the lino of march lay was a
very rugged one, heavily
wiMided, and traversinl by
numerous ravines. The pro-
gress mode by the column
was not gri'at thiTcfore, and
an ambush was much feared,
but until noon not an Indian
was sighted. The scouts dia-
covercd the enemy first in
the same position occupied
the day liofore, and which
appeared to have been occu-
pied for some time. It was
on Frenchman's Butte, 15 '
miles southeast of the cnni)i
at Fort Pitt, ond three iiiilcH
north of the Saskatchewan
river. A bold rf*coiinaisHiuice
of the scouts laid bare the
enemies' position fully. The
camp, consisting of many
tepees, was well liock on the
summit of a b<i1d hill, well
wiHidcnl, and with boulders
scittoreil over its face. Be-
tweim the tnioiis and this
hill was a smaller hill which,
with the valley iH'twiien, was
well wooded The gun was
ordered up, and a few shells
were thrown on the hill, after
which Nus. 1, 2 and 3 Com-
panies of the 92nd were
advanced in skirmishing
order through the bush.
After three hours' hard work
the Indians were driven down into the val-
ley. A zereeba wos formed on the top of
the hill, and the force camped there for
the night. Early next morning the Indiana
wore attacked in their stronghold on the Buttea.
The scouts reixtrteJ them to be about 700 strong.
The gun, under command of Captain Strange,
oiiened fire upon the position first, and then the
men of the 92nd and of the 65th were ordered to
advance in skirmishing order. The akirmishera
advanced down the hill, which the force had
occupied the night before, and eo widely
extended were they that their line was over
three-quarters of a mile long. The first shot
fired on the side of the enomy came from behind
a colored flag, and being a single one, and fol-
lowed immediately after by volleys, it waa

who had abandoned his enterprise, hitving heard to his (losition oil the Mounted Police force by believed by the troops to be a signal fired by

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Itix IWr hiiunulf, Twii wull dinxtod nhnU
from Captain Mtrungu'ii K»n, uiid thu heavy tiro
of thii akiriniitheiK, itiUmcod thu inuiiiy'i* firii
itlKiut half'|>aiit nino o'clDck. The hcimiIi* had
Imiii Hmit around to attiiiiipt a flank iiioveiin'iit,
and at thin jiinctiiro Konmof thoiii rcturiKHl with
tho ri'iMirt that n fnri'o of two hiiiidrud of thn
Indiana were outHunking thu linuof HkiriiiiahiiH.
Thii Major-Oenorttl tliurefom orduriKl thi^ am-
iiiiinitiun woffgonii, under a Htroiig oxcort, to tho
rear. Later it wan found noCfHaary to withdraw
thu lino of tho iikiriiiiHhorH, who had ailvanuiHl
within two hundred yardx of thu iiitH. Thu men
heggnd liurd to l>o allowod to carry tlio |HJHition
hy a charge, but tliero waa Homo danger of tlio
horHoa of tlie «x|iudition Iniing atamjHHled, and
tlio Majortienoral refuHod to Kanction it. Thu
troopa wero witlidrawn n)M>ut a (piarter to
live o'clock ond, returning to their zereeba
on tho top of tliu amall hill, reniainod thuro
all night. Two companiuH of thu C5th had
Ix'im Kent chiwii the river in a acow from Fort
I'itt, to land about three milea from the
Indian camp and take it in flank, but no ivdvan-
togo waa gained by tliia movement. From
thu rapidity of the Indiana' (ire and tliu atruagth
with which the jHiaition waa held it waa oati-
mated that Uig Bear'a force nuuilM'red four hun-
dred men in action, an oatiinatc which waa con-
firmed by Indiana who duaerted later on. Tho
Indian loan wob five killed and threo wounrl-::.
Strange'a loan waa threo privates of tho G5th and
one of tho Alberta horao wounded, and but one
of theae men, Joseph Marcotto of the fiSth, was
badly hurt. Un the morning of the next daj , tho
29th, Gen. Strange, bolioving it to be imposaible
to carry tho position without reinforconienta, de-
termined to withdraw. Tho retreat was made
witiiout difficulty by tho main body, but when
the two Cumpaniea of tho GSth, who hud come
down tho river, reached tho placo whoro they
had left their acow they wero aoniewhat aaton-
iahed to find that it hod diaapiwarcd with its
Sergeant's guard of twelve men. Tho detach-
ment were compelled to make tho best of their
way to Fort Pitt along the river bank, ond it
was several days before tho scow was picked up
and towed back. General Strange at once sent
a couple of men down the rivor in a akifT with
despatches to General Middleton, describing tho
fight and asking for reinforcements, ammuni-
tion and supplies. Tho " Northwest," for Fort
Pitt, with supplies for General Strange, with a
moderately contented party of the 90th Batta-
lion on board, who wero keenly enjoying the
pleaaant run up the river and tho prospect of a
siieedy return homo, waa met about noon on
May 80th, when within sixty miles of Fort
Pitt, and the deapatches wore put into tho
hands of Mr. S. L. Bedaon, the chief tranaport
officer, who was in command of t!io ateauier.
Mr. Bodson had proved himself a man of groat
resource, of tireless energy and strength of
purpose.

Time and again he had prevented a break
down in the commissariat by making the apjiar-
•ntly insufficient transport service do an immense
amount of work ; and, in fact, he had disanned
all criticism o{ his branch of the service by mak-
ing it equal to every emergency. He at once
took it upon himself to do a general's part, and
landing Inspector Feter8,withliiBMounted Police
and scouts, and also the Rev. Mr. Mackay and
Mr. William Mackay, who were on their way to
Fort Pitt, the steamer waa turned back and
siwedeil to Battleford aa quickly as stream and
ateaiu could take her. Battleford was reached
that night, ami tho dreams of home inilulged in

by thu liiiopH, were rudi'ly broken by the order
to bo ready to inovo on the morning of the next
duy. Karly on thu Slat May thu ateaniera "Mar-
(piia," "Northweat," and "Alberta" with tho
MidlunderH.L^r); 90th, tK); 10th KoyaKlrenadiora,
'iM, and a drtncliinent of A and B Butteries, IK)
Htidiig, with two nino-poundurs and thn two
(iatliiiga, left Battleford for Fort I'itt under tho
command of'Oeiioral Middleton. A mounted
force, made up of Boulton'a Ilorae, 00; IJennia'
Surveyora, (i9 J French's Scouts, now called tho
Birtlo Sc(mta, (10, and Mounted Police, RO, all
under the command of Colonel Herchmer, left
Battleford by the trail along the aouth bank of
the North Saskatchewan, with or<lor8 to puali on
and eiTeeta junction with thn column moving by
water at a point acroaa the river from Big Boar'a
poaition. Tho firat day out tliia body of horaO
covered forty two miles, and the men cnmiaHl
without tenta in u pouring rain. Upon tho
second day they marched forty-five miles, and
early on tlie morning of thu 2nd of June joined
thu Hotilla, which, without accident or incident,
had reached tho rendestvoua uiain the i)rcvioua
evenhig. Tho entire force at once croaaed the
river, and ciiunnunicaticm was opened with Gen.
Strange meanwhile. It was then learned that
after thu battle at Frenchman's Buttea a cloae
watch waa kept uiHin Big Bear, and that a akir-
miah or two between the Indians' picketa and
?c?;.t. '..»u taken place without reault. On
May Slat Big Bear abandoned his ijoailion
and began a suddon and rapid retreat to the
north and eastward, leaving a quantity of atuff,
valuable in the eyes of an Indian, behind him.
Major Steele, not many hours behind the
Indians, followed the main body in rapid and
closo pursuit, entirely disregarding several
smaller trails which led off from tho main one,
giving ample evidence that Big Bear waa being
deserted by the smaller bauds which had joined
him. Hardly had General Strange been apprised
of Big Bear's retreat, than the camp was again
thrown into excitement by tho appearance of a
white man in the bush, who proved to be tho
Rev. Mr. Quinney, the missionary at Onion
Lake, who hod been taken prisoner at Fort Pitt.
He stated that he had escaped from a small band
of WiKxl Crues, who had parted from Big Bear
some days before, and, with many of the pris-
oners, was encamped some distance north of
Frenchman's Buttes. Tho Rev. Mr. Mackay,
with his brother, Mr. ''.Villiam Mackay, and
eight truaty Indian and half-breed scouts,
dashed off to 'he reacue of these prisoners, fonnd
the camp and without parley rode into the midst
of it. They found Mrs. Gowanlook and Mrs.
Delaney with their protectors, the Fritchard
family, and several other half-breed families with
o number of WchxI Cree Indians. Tlie little party
had found means to eacapo from Big Bear upon
the eve of tho battle on the 27th, and when
the Mackaya found them were anxiously debat-
ing what course to pursue, aa the Indians were
afraid to surrender. During the whole period
of their captivity, which had lasted for nearly
two months, the prisoners hod been guarded
from all harm, and zealously protected from the
Plain Creea by the half-breeds and Wood Crees.
They had never been allowed to want, and
though burdened by the weight of sorrow caused
by the murder of their young husbands in their
presence, Mrs. Gowanlock and Mrs. Delaney
were in good health. Mr. Simpson, the factor,
and his wife, the Dufreanes, and several half-
breed families were with another party of Wood
Crees, who had begun a retreat, and the Mackays
pualiingon rosciied them also. The whole party

LIEUT.-COL. OSBORNE SMITH,
C.M.O., D.A.a.,

(Jutninkiitlur uf tlio Third Dlviilon.

of priaonera, with fifty half-broeds and Wood
Creea, were on the same day brought intonamp,
where there was great rejoicing over their return
in g(KxI health. Thu riilief felt tlii'oiigh tho
whole Dominion over their safety and over tliii
news tiiat the horrible minora regarding their
treatment wern abaolutoly unfounded, waa in-
tena<>. There was still cauae for deep anxiety,
however, as tho Mcljeana, and one or two other
families taken at Furt Pitt, wero still in the
hands of Big Buar, and it waa feared that afti'r
the fight and tho withdrawal of thu main laxly
of tho Wo<h1 Croea, they would bo ill uaed.
General Strangn had brokun camp when thu
news of tho enemies' rotreat came in, and after
a march of thirteen miles north, ho oaiiit>ed on
the bank of tho Red Deer River. At nine
o'clock on the morning of tho 3rd of June,
Major Steele, who hiid Iwen pressing on after
Big Bear, with no thought but that his eiinniy
waa before him, came suddenly upon the In-
dians about forty miles to the north-eaat of Fort
Pitt. Tho Indians began the fight by firing
upon the advance scouts from a heavily wou<led
hill-side, A doa[ieratethree-hour8' fight followed,
in which the combatants fought from behind
trees and boulders, Tho scouts steadily gained
ground, and at last, by a gallant niah, carried
the crest of tho hill. Immediately beyond this
hill lay Loon Lake, on the marshy shores of
which the Indian camp had been |>itched.

When the Indiana wero driven from this
camp, which had been mostly removed during
tho battle, they withdrew by fording to what ap-
peared to bo a hilly island, but was in reality a
promontory of tho opi>oaito coast, aliout one
hundred yards from tho ahoro. From this
position they kept up a hot fire u|>on tho triH>|>a
during their search of what remained of the
camp. It being impoasible to reach the Indiana,
an effort was made to induce them to give up
their captives, among whom wero the McLean
family. Rev. Mr. Mackay, who accompanied
Steele, advanced to the shore 'under a white flag
which, how"ver, was fired uixin, and demanded
uix)n what terms tho captives would bo surren-
dered. An Indian, supiatsed to have been Big
Bear himself, replied that he would keep tho
prisoners, and as the troops had come into his
country to fight, he would fight it out. Major
Steele then withdrew his force, taking with him
his wounded in a captured buckboard. In this
engagement Major Steele's loss waa three men
wounded ; Sergeant-Major Fury serioualy shot

THE mi:r, UKnr,i.i.if»N op i«w.

Iliri>ii)(li lliii Ixialy, mill Williuiii \V(^nt uiil
TliDiiuM Kink "f till' •poiiln, •liKhlly wi.iitiiliil in
tlmir li'K". H'or niwlit linurn, with > liKlit-
iliK fiirio iif liiit iii«ty iiiin,- line fifth fl thu
iiiniinliil infuiitry IhIiik ni|iiiriiil to t(<iui[ thii
hnmi'ii, hi' hull fiMiKht H iHHiy iif iinii huiiilriil
mid (ifly liiilittiiH, ii|"iii Kf""'"' "' t'"''' "*"
Ki'li'iliii);, hull hy thi'ir MWii tmtieii ilrivoii thi'iii
from thi'ir ihimi'ii iKmitioiiii, ami hail it not Imiiii
that thi'y isniiiil hy whIit ho woiilil prohnlily
hnvi' i'n|>tiinil tlin liniiil. ('|Hin tlm Kroixnl
fought ovi r, thii iKnlii'H of nix of thi' I'lii'iiiy wirii

foiMiil, mill KiK lli'ar'M I'litiro lom iliiring tho

rih'lit wiiH iiinii killi'il. Hti'iili' fill back miiiiiiiliH'

taiiri' upon thr main luhly, hut ittill kipt hin

ncoiiU out fi'i'liiiK tht' oni'niy. OrniTal Miililliv

ton ut oiii'u took prompt anil itiiciaivo mi'iuuiiH

to proNoriiti' till' i-liaHi*.
A ti'liKrapli wirii wah liriniKlit up to thn oainp,

wliii'li hull iH'on formi'il tin iiiiluH ti> tha oMt of

I'ort I'itt, utiil till' infantry

liri)<iuli', iimlir tlii< coinnianil

of l,ii!wt. Colonol VanHtrnn-

Im'mzii', w.iH lift tlu'iii in

^rnrriNon. (Ii'ii, StraiiKi'. with

lliriiii hiinitri'il aiiit fifty font

iiikI thirty flvii ImrHi', wan

oiiliMi'il tu piinh through to

till' Ituttvi'r Uivi r, viil Fnig

liitki', III cut off ili^ ]ti'ar'M

rncji|»n til tlin north-went-

wiiril. (Niliinildttii-, wilhluM

iliviNioii, wiiH ortlori-il to ad*

vancii to Jack Fi»li I<aki',

tilti'i'n niili'H to tliii north-

ward of Itiitlli'foril, and

(.'ill. Irvini', with liin police, -^•

wan to croHH till! Kaxkat-

chi'waii from Vrinco AUii'rt,

and advanci' aloiix tluidronn

Iiakii trail. All IIiohii miivu-

nii'ntn woro niiiliTtakon in

oriliT ti> cut iilf all avi-nuM
of I'NcaiH) tu till' nortli-fant,
north and north-wcHt-waid,

and to li-avii hig licar

no option but to tight or
Hurrcnder. Upon hiiiiHoIf
Ouncral Miildloton took tho
tank of following up the
retreating TndianH and bring-
ing them to book. The
ciinntry into which liig Hear
had retreated olfcred almost
inmirmoiMitable olmtaclen to
the march of a civilized hiiI-
diery. Lying upon tho
bordern of the great fir fop-
iwtH of the north, it wax broken into nteep
hillH, covered by ahniLst imponetrablo busli, cut
up with innumerable Inken, rivers, and nuirasseii,
all at their maximum height, Tho weather was
very wet and unfavorable, and mosquitim and
other insects were in swarms everywhere and
" like to cut tho heads off the men."

The Uatling guns were dismounted, the car-
riages taken to pieces, and the wholo loaded
uiHiu (lack horses. Arrangements were made to
abandon all waggons if necessary, and a pock
train wa« hastily organiztKl by Mr. Bedsnn.
With three hundred troopers, provided with ten
days' supplies, the second chase of Big Bear
began uiKin the 4th of Juno. The country was
BO imiKusablo that the Indians themselves had
been forced to cut a trail through the busli, and
this hod tu be widened to permit the column
to pass. The waggons had to be left behind
upon the very first day and every effort was

iiiiiilii to ciinin up with thu main Inxly of
the Indinnn, twenty five niihn alieail. In
tlirir Hight the Indians aliaiidoiicd tliiir di'iiil,
without waiting to bury them, their camp
furniture, tliiir finery, and everything in fact
lint thi'ir ariiiH and foiHl. The iiioHipiitoi, the
Hand and blurk Hies, the Hiiiiiiiirr plitgiiu of that
inhonpitablii land, were iilreiwly making life u
torment, and for niilert the column Hotindered
through miiHki'gand nwamp, the liorHi'HHhoiiltler-
ili-ep ill mild and watiT, but the implaeublo
trooiwrs pressed ou, shooting down every Indian
on night.

On the evening of Juno Rth Henoral .Strange
ri'uehi'd 1''rog Lake, after a nphndid march
of thirty iiiileii in one day, but even thin
achii'vi'iiient was outiloim by two ciinipanien of
the U'Jiiil, uiiilir (J.'iptuiiiH Valency and Hiiiilh,
who marchi'd the entire distance, marly forty
miles, from the camp Ixliiw Fort I'itt to l''rog

LIEUT.-COL. W, R. OSWALD,
■ Oommanding the Montrool OarrisoD Artillery,

Lake in one and the some day. Without a
pause the advance of this column was continued
upon Saturday tho Gth, and all that dny an
attempt wan made to force the pace through an
almost impassable country covered with poplar
scrubs and honeycombed with muskeg and
creek. Tho Cith had long since worn the lustre
from their imiforms, and by this time they wire
socklcss and almost without iKiiits. The insect
torments rose in clouds from tho swamiis through
which the men waded, the transjMirt waggons were
constantly breal;ing down and had to be repaired
and pushed forward by the infantry, so that tho
march was a terrible one. During the afternoon
a tcout came in with the information that the In-
dians were raiding the Hudson's Bay Company's
post, at the Beaver River, and had captured
Halpin, the clerk in charge. Colonel Paton,
with twenty of the Alberta horse, pushed on
niae miles farther than the main body that

night, hut when they reuched the |Hwt they
found it deserted and drsolate. An Indian had
vinitixl tho place « day or two iM'fore and hiul
gone north with some sacks, to obtain which ho
had emptiiil the flour on tho floor. Beyond
iIiIh nothing hail Iwen diHturlwd or taken, al-
though a lurge amount of flour won in ntoru
there. Tho .Sunday'n inarah of the main column
was even a more difficult and arduous iinn
than its pre<liH»insiir, Tho tranH|H>rt waggons
could hardly lie got over the horriblii trail and
some of them had to Im almndoneil. The liorse,
now far in advance, entered during the day
iiiKin the fertile plain to the •uutli of the valley
of the Iteaver river, and for seven miles they
riKlo through a Ixiautiful prairie country, broken
by line coppicr.), and niarkiHl with the settle-
ments of the Chippewayan Indians. After the
plunge through the twenty miles of scrub and
iiiiirauH, dank fir swamps and iHiplarclothed
ridges, to comesuddonlyu|Hin
a fertile table-land, dotted on
this was hy well cultivali'd
farms and comfortable liome-
steatln, .van a pleitsant niir-
prini' to tho troops. The en-
tire settlement, even tho
Catholic Mission, was aban-
ifiineiJ, and the staff took up
its ((uarters in the Church,
When the scouts flrst reuched
tho river they found six In-
dian lodges U|ion the northern
shore, with two canoes iH'sidn
them, and as they watched
them a party of Indians came
down and silently nnioviil
the canucs without moU'sta-
tion.

The Beaver River was
reached by General Strange
on tho 8th of June, and himiu
the sameday (ieneral Middle-
ton, having followed the In-
dian trail to the north-west
end of Loon Lake, found his
jirogress effectually barred
by a niunkeg, impassable to
his troops. Big Bear hail
moved on and hod induced
five lodges of tho Loon liuku
Indians, whom he found in
a fishing encampment upon
its shore, to join him. Be-
fore crossing the muskeg
the Indians abandoned their
carts, tepees, and nearly
all their camp equipage.
Upon the long trail— for General Middloton
marched about eighty miles from Fort Pitt-
were found the bodies of nine Indians, either
stragglers who had fallen before the rifles of the
scouts, or tho wounded of the two battles who
succumbed during tho retreat. No trace of the
prisoners could Lo found, and of the sufferings
endured by white women and children during
tho terrible flight of the Indians even the
stout triHipers did not like to think. A day
was spent in a vain attempt to pass or round
the muskeg, and then General Middleton de-
termined to return to Fort Pitt Tho Indiana
were supposed to be fully four days ahead of
him and he had only three days rations re-
maining. There seemed to bo nothing for it, but
to turn round and march back. Nothing was
gained by this expedition, but its accomplish-
ment in spite of extraordinary difficulties, and
the cheerful, uncomplaining spirit in which it was

THK lUKJ, RKHKU.ION OF IHWJ,

wrriad nut Ixir* kinple tMtimony tn ths fliw nl-
dierl]rc|tiitliti<Minf thoforvi' ''iilly HOniilniiofui
■Iniiwt ini|wniitrat)l«, kikI . :ii>.(vtlior iinxxpliTed
ntrionhwl iHHiiitrkvurMMlinmiiniifouriJnyi, with-
mil •|>|irocikblH ruult. At Uoiwral HtriuiKo'i*
oamis mMUr the Btiavcr riv«r, uvuiitii wiiru
mure Mtiiifaotory. On thii iiiornliig of tliii Utii,
F»th«r I<ef[i>tT, thu KoniMi (JkthoUo Miiwidnftry to
the ChipiMiWkyHDii, caiim into camp ti> ploiul (or
tiirinii of |ie>ca for th(i banil, h\g liutr hiul coin-
IM^IItid them, by thrtiat* of ileatroyiiit; tliuin in
oami tliuy rafuwxl, to Join tiiin. Home of tlioni
had takun |>art in the b'.itlo at Frenchnian'ri
ButtvH but at it« cloM tbe whciluband withdrew
from Big Buar'i cainp in aplte of thrcata.
Oiin«ral Htrangu dvniandwl unconditional iiur-
r(indi<r in tli« atuni niiwMtRii " Cuniu in with
" your srini before fo\ir o'clock ThuriHlay or I
" will burn your hoint'H and fluht youmislvoH."
He had alnuuly ordered Colonel Willinnm, of
the Midland regiment, who liiul advancol to
Frog Lake on May 10th, to burn thn hoUHOti n(
the Indian! in that noighl)<>rh(MMl. Father I^t^oS
went to the Indian camp, acconi|>aniud by
Father Prevoit, Chaplain of the Ofith, and on
Thursday night, shortly after the hour appoint-
ed, returned with all but nine of the warriors of
the band, who each gave up a firearm, some of
the nnns being fine rifles. On the following
day the nine remaining warriors and the whole
oamp, numbering two hundred souls, came in.
Oeneral Middleton reached the camp near Fort
Pitt upon the 11th, and at once arrangements
were begun for another attempt to capture Big
Bear. General Middleton decided to join Gen-
eral Strange at the Beaver River, with his
column of horse, and the Oatlings, If the
Indians did not appear there, his inten^on
was to advance against them from the west.
General Strange was advised that the Indians
were moving westward, and was directed to
take every precaution to guard the crossings of
the river and the Hudson's Bay stores. On the
13th, the Midland Battalion, which had been
ordered forward to support General Strange,
reached the camping ground, five miles south of
his headquarters, and on the same day Col.
Osborne Smith and 100 men of the 02nd were
rafted over the Beaver River and sent along
the north bank eastward to guard the crossing
twelve miles down the river, by which Big Bear
might escape north to Lao dea lies which is
immediately east of Cold Lake,

by Riel and his Indian cnnfiHlerates to Join the
rising. Both the half bnwis and tlm Indians
wore m|Mirlud by Auimoan otIlwirH in Muntann
to Imi rivtUmi and oxcitiHl. The daiigiT of llioir
coming north unil iniluciiiK tlii' llluckfiHit con-
fiHh'ratiim of Ounadn, which could imt mhiio
fiftiH'n hundnid wiirriomin tlm tluUl,to ris«, and
tho yotinKiir wiirriom of whom were already
hard to umitri'l, woh u gravo one,

Thi5 MiKiMi MouMtuin Suiuts and the llovky
Mountain lUnK<'rs, two iMnlicH of hcirxe nUMod
for tho oxpri'SM pur|Kmoc>f gimrdingtho Irontior,
watched the trails with iili'oplivs vigilance, |iar-

CHAPTKR XVIII.

piapot'b sun danck.
In the Territory of Montana, immediately
south o' the frontier of the Canadian North-
Wrst, there are many settlements of half-breeds
who are one people with those of Canada, and
these Riel declared would come north and assist
in the establishment of "The Metis Nation."
All along the north of Montana, too, were the
reservations of the American Blood, Fiegan,
Blackfoot, Sarcee, and Cree Indians, who are
one in blood and in language with the Canadian
Indians of the same tribes. Until a few years
ago these Indians followed the buffalo herds
north or south indifferently, and were at home
anywhere on the broad prairies without regard
to latitude forty-nine. These Indians, trained
to war by their long conflicts with American
troops, were warriors to a man. They had been
invited with the rest of their tribes in Canada

PIAPOT,
Tho Ores* Chief of tho Qu'AppoUo Valley.

ticularly after the Fish Crock fight, the result of
which encouraged the half-breeds, but two hun-
dred men could not keep a very efficient watch
over a thousand miles of prairie. Tho necessity
of having a reserve for these scouts to fall back
upon, and also of having a force sufficient to
secure the safety of eight hundred miles of the
railway line, stretching from Winnii)eg to the
Rocky Mountains, and which at different points
formed the bases of the whole North-West expe-
dition, was patent. This tedious but important
work was done at first by regiments on their
way to the north, and later by three fine regi-
ments y/ho were among those last called out.

TliH Halifax Provisional lUttalion was nevar
w<nt north of tho railway track, but during thn
whoht camixtign lay in garrison at Swift Currnnt,
MiHMo Jnw luid Miilicimi Mat. The Vth ((jui>
Imic) garrlwiniit ('algnry, Mcli<ii<l, OlficliKh, ami
other stations in that vicinity, and tho Ulst wits
in garri»<m nt Fort ({u'A|i|i«lli', and guanli'il I ho
lino of routci to IluuilKildt. lliwiilos tlionn riigi
nicnts, tho Montrxul (iarrison Artilli-ry undur
comniami of Liimtonant Colonul Oawnld, was,
on thu 'JMth of May, dei<|Mktohc<l to Kogina, tho
capital of the NorthWost turritorios, to guard
tho |K)lilioal prison which had lioen I'Stalilinhixl
there, and also to watch ria|nit's trilsi of In
dians. U|Km tho Ist of June, thcroforo, there
was to the south, and along the lino of thn
railway, a force of 1,300 infantry, 2<K) bciuIs,
40() Mountinl Police, including raw i"'ti< at
tho do|Hit At Ilogiiut, or in all 1,000 ni' in the

niorning of .luno Ist one of Htewii. '"•ts

cnnio uiKin a party of thirty or {■■' ..Hid

Indians, some thirty miles to tho soin » "t of
Mudicinu Hat. This picket, Sergcaiil . m

by name, thinking them friendly Canadian
BliHids, advanced towards them, when one of
them fired on him. He at once tiKik to oivor,
and emptied his ummunition |K)uch on them to
such giHid purimne that they took to their heels
and did not pursue him into cami>.

Major Stewart, with a force of Mounted Policn
and scouts, wont out on the trail of thn hostiles
and arrangements were made to concentrate thn
tro<ips at any imint of tho railway, in order tu
crush tho rising wherever it might occur before
it had time to become general among thn In-
dians of tho South-west. Thu attack u|Hin
Sergeant Jackson was found to have btien the
act of a small party of American Piegans on a
horse stealing raid. The Blockfixit nation re-
mained loyal, and kept tho pledges given by
Crowfoot, his councillors and the other chiefs of
the tribes. The Crees of the (ju'Apiiellu valley
were restless but not hostile, and thu Govern-
ment thought it best to allow them to work off
their excitement in a sun dance, a semi-roligious
semi-military festival which they hod not Xmin
allowed to hold of late years. With Lient.-
Qovemor Dewdney, many of the officers of tlm
Garrison Artillery of Montreal, among others
Col. Oswald, Major Atkinson, Major Laurio, Dr.
Klder, Captain Trotter, Captain Stevenson,
Captain Cole, Doctor Cameron, Captain Lanu
and Sergeant-Major Hibbins visited and wit-
nessed this survival of savagery and idolatry.
The trail from Regina to the Qu'Apiielle valley,
whore it was held, led north over gently rolling
prairie of fine green turf for twelve miles, tlitn
for three or four miles among thu wooded bluffs
overlooking tho Qu'Appelle valley. Under tho
hot May sun the prairie atmosphere was like a
mirror, and exceedingly pretty mirages, imag-
ing smooth lakes surrounded by shady forests,
presenting a striking contrast to tho prairie, with
not a sapling or a pond in sight, were seen. The
gophers scurried to their holes on the approach
of the party, but the prairie chickens and other
birds wi re tame ond fearless. From tlie edge of
the blu's the beautiful Qu'Apiiello valley, run-
ning east and west, challenged admiration.
Thu valley, which was at one time thu bed of
the South Saskatchewan river, which could
yet bo easily turned at thu elbow into its old
channel, is two miics wide. Its banks of
yellow clay are b>)ld, even {lerpendicular in
places, and one hundred and fifty feet in height.
Here and there they are broken by the ravines
which open into the valley, and which, being

THK KIEL KEBRLLIUN OF 1R86.

wslenMurarr in iipnng, mv completely filled with
the ifncn {oliage of the poplsn, which grow
thickly in them. The valley appears from the
Ihuik to be » Bea of gnea foliage, through which
the (ju'Apiicllo river winds like a nlvor band.
Hern and there are Bninll meadowH, on wliich
the cattlo wore i>eacefully grazing. UeMcending
into the valley, the trail winds around and
among wiKHled blufTH, into which the forest is
broken. A few miles ride, and a smooth, grassy
plain, half a mile in width, is reached. In
the c4!ntro of this is a |iond, on whose banks a
Urge nimilter of Indian ]>onios were grazing.
]toyim(i, at the far end of the o|>ening, and half
hidden liy a projecting copse, vvas the Indian
camp. liotwoen the branches of the trees, and
here and there, in groui>s of twos and threes,
wore the suioko-stainod wigwams which, when
fully in view, were seen to number over one

There were a few men, but mo«t of the braves
were inside. They wore every variety of gar-
ment, from the dirty white blanket, or the old
cost off finery of white people, to a gaudy suit
uf blue pants with a red striped coat. Arranged,
chiefly with an aim to display, was a great deal
of lightly colored printed calico and many
articles of cheap jewellery. Brightly colored
striped blankets predominated however. Their
faces and all i>arts of their bodies which were not
clothed, were painted in every conceivable color
and design, the effect being in every case
exceedingly hideous. Boys and girls were in
the throng, and many of these liod gut on the
bocks of i«)nie», and from their elevation were
looking over the heads of their elders in front.
Their i)erfi'ct command over their ponies, and
the graceful manner in which their bodies fol-
lowed the movements of the horses, were admir-

EAU1.K TAIL.

UED CKOW. CROWFOOT.

CROWFOOT AND HIS CHIEFS.

iaaE» HULLS.

hundred, ;.rranged in a circle, enclosing a
smmith, grassy arena. In the centre of this was
a large council chamber, built of poplar poles,
the sides being interlaced iMuighs with leaves
still on, and t!'.o roof covered with canvas and
skins, and profusely decorated with colored
prints and green foliage. Un the centre (xile of
the tent-like ntructiire, a red flag was flying.
Within this structure the sun dance was being
hold, as the extraordinary pandemonium of
noises which issued from it testified. Tlie wig-
wams were almost deserted, and only from a few
of the dark interiors, faces )H)C|>ed, as the uni-
formed white men {uissed through the camp.
The wide entrance to tlio council-chamber,
where the ceremonies were proceeding, was
thronged with Indians of all sises and degrees
of ugliness, from the aged squaw to the new
bom papoose slung behind its mother's back.

able. On entering the council-chamber it was
found to bo arranged in the form of a rough
amphitheatre, with two rows of seats running
around two-thuds of the place. Directly opiw-
site the entrance at the back of the tent, and
partitioned f.-om the rest, were the seats cf the
Chief Piapot and his Councillors. On his left
the seats were occupied by women and on the
right by men. In the centre of the arena was
a medicine pole. In front of this pole burned a
fire, around which were squatted several medi-
cine men, some of whom fed it constantly with
sacred grass. A little to one side was a group
of young braves standing in a close circle. They
wore in the most extraordinary coverings. The
head of one of these was surmounted by a b-oll's
horns with a part of the hide hanging over his
shoulders. Another had a fox skin on his head,
the head of the creature hanging over his brow

while the tail flowed down his back. Their legs
were bare, and were, as well as their faces,
painted in brightest colors. All those who were
seated were also highly colored as to face
and fantastic as to garment. The hoad-drenH of
the squaws consisted almost altogether of fea-
thers, ..Iso artificially colored, which were simply
stuck into their hair as thickly as imjisibla
Their faces were jminted, though with less care
and tastci, if possible, than the men's. A dozen
musicians were grouped in another part of the
arena, who beat tom-toms and shook rattles.
When the musicians struck up a slow measure
on the tom-toms, the men and women on the seats
around the arena kept time on the whistles with
which all were provided, and at the same time
kept rising and sitting as fast as they could, all
keeping |>erfect time. All wore solemn faces,
and seemed absorbed in the ceremony, Pia|)ot
himself being among the
most earnest. The ring
of young braves in the
arena circled slowly
around, keeping time
with their feet and chant-
ing in monotonous bmes
their exploits. Occasion-
ally amidst all the din a
medicine man would rise
and harangue the assem-
bly. The ceremony was
interrupted for a few
minutes to allow PiaiM>t
to welcome "the children
of the Great Mother," as
ho called Her Majesty's
Garrison Artillery, and
to assure thtm of his loy-
alty to her and his desire
to fight for her. Piapot,
one of the most renowned
worriers among the In-
dians of the North-Wcsf,
is a fine-looking man, of
medium height. Uo was
enrobed in a large stripeil
tjlankot, while his head
was covered by an im-
mensely high fur ca|),
with a bunch of feathers
stuck behind. His body
was painted bright yel-
low, and the left side of
his face was covered with
blue Bi>otB, while on his
right cheek was an eagle
painted in blue. The
expression of his faco
was, in spite of all, well
marked, and it was kind and intelligent though
his eyes were cunning. Once mora the tom-
toms struck up, the whistling and dancing was
resumed, but the monotony was to be suddenly
broken. Into the arena, at the call of the chief,
came a youth of eighteen, a slim, wiry little fel,-
low, about five feet four in height, who turned
out to bo no other than Wolverine, a step-
brother of Piapot. His only covering was a
linen cloth and his skin had been painted red and
covered with chalk, and his hair also had been
chalked white. He squatted on thegfround, with
his head bent forward until his chin rested on his
chest One of the medicine men then knelt
beside him, and pinching tho flesh of the right
breast into a fold thrust a sharp knifo through
it and then through the hole thus made thrust a
wooden skewer. Tho same ojwration wan iwr-
formed on the left breast, and then to those

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THE RIKL REBELLION OP 188S.

■kewen worn Hecurcly fimtcncd two cords, which
buiiK down from tho top f>( tho medicine pole.
Rotreating from the |mi1« until tlio cord tight-
eninv; drew the fold of fleflh fully nix inchoH from
(liH bre»»t, the young Indian danced round a
half circle to the hidooua muuic of tho torn-
tonm, rattloB and whintles.

ThiH wa» continued bravely by the poor fel-
low, until tho Indian agent ordered tho modicino
man to cut the cord and withdraw tho Bkowors.
Tin; modicino man then chewed a piece of root,
and Kpat ui)on tho wounds, after which ho laid
tlio victim on the ground at fuU length, face
downwardK, where he remained for some time in
prayer. Thuii young men are initiated into the
ranks of the warriors of tho tribe. If they l)ear
this torture without wincing they are thereafter
only required to make war, shoot game and sU^al
homes or cattle. If thoy quail under the torture
tltoy have to jMirform thi menial work of tho
camp in com|>any with the women, and are
allowed to have only one wife. These cere-
monies are witnessed by the children of the
tenderest yctrs as well as by women, the
children being painted as well us their elders
and being encouraged to take part by keeping
up a wild, shrill chant. This dance, with the
attendant tf-rtures, is kept up for sixty hours
continuously, without food or rest. The Do-
minion (Sovernmont wisely decided to prohibit
such barbarities, and though tho festival is an
annual one, none had been held before for
years. The rein had to bo slackened somewhat
during the trouble. An inspection of the Camp
provi^d it to bo filthy in tho extreme, and
wretchodnoss prevailed. The life of captives
in such a camp could hardly be preferred to
death.

I*ia|)<)t, his chiefs and his warriors wore in-
vited in return to visit the camp of the Garrison
Artillery, which they did during the following
week, whena review was held before them. Tho
evolutions of tho troops a8t<miHhiKl Piajxjt, the
charge with fixed bayonets which was made in
his direction filled him with fear, he believing
that a trai> was being sprung upon him. The
niti-sic of the band had no charms to soothe his
savage breast, he Ixung indifferent to all but
tho big drum with which h" fell in love and
begged hard for. Ho was allowed to beat it for
some time, nuich to his delight.

Shortly after, tho Qlst regiment, at Fort Qu'-
AplH'lle, wiw< in danger of being comixilled to
attend another dance of another tribe in a less
friendly way. The Indians near Fort Qu'Ap-
jielle on tlu! File Hill reservations, which are
four in mnijiii'r and have a population of 479,
about the twelfth of June became obstreperous
and about throe hundred of them left their
nwervation, under the guidance of three of their
chiefs, Star, Blanket, and Pel-pco-kce-sis, to
hold a Thirst Dance, and, by threatening to
create trouble, secure a quantity of supplies
from the (Jovemment. Lieut. -Col. Scott at
uneu Kent out a ct>uple of companies of tho 01st
to eKciii't tlieni iKick to their reservation, which
w;kK(l"ne, and the two chiefs, who had been most
Bhiiiiii'lrsH iH'gh'ars, were arrested and sent to
Ut'i,'in.i. To that pliice all the prisoners taken
at ImIouIr and c;i|>t\iri'd at Prince Albert had
Im'i II t,>k('n, and, Iwaides Kiel, forty half-breeds
and Indian iiisonera were confined there. Such
wa'* the outcome of the attempt at founding "La
Nation Metisse" and of ostablisbing the " Pro-
visional (iovernment of the Saskatchewan" on
that bright March day, threo months before.

CHAPTER XIX.

THK CLOBK OF TIIK OAMPAION.

On the surrender of the Chipiiewayans at
Boavor River, General Strange instituted a court
of enquiry into their criminalty in the Frog
Lake massacre, the result being that thoy were
allowed to return to their homes. General
Strange employed some of the best of these
Indians as scouts in the work of hunting
up Big Bear, who had not yet turned up,
and of whom the white scouts had failed to
find any trace. On June 16th General Middle-
ton, with his force of mounted men, arrived at
General Strange's head-quarters and he was
greeted with loud cheers from the men who had
the greatest confidence in him. Tb.us the camp
at the Beaver River became the base of operations
against Big Bear and his band. General Middle-
ton at once despatched Colonel Osborne Smith
and a hundred men of the 92nd Winnii>eg Light
Infantry to Cold Lake, seven miles north o' tho
Beaver River, whore ho was to leave a detach-
ment to guard the trail and then, moving
eastward, to place detachments at both Lac
dcH lies and Water-hen Lake, which are
directly east of Cold Lake, and which, with
Green Lake, form the northern side of tho
quadrangle from which Big Bear was trying to
eBca]>e. Captain Constantino, with a small
band of scouts and a couple of Chippewayan
Indians, viaa sent eastward down the Beaver
River to ascertain whether the hostile Indians
had cscaiMjd north. Genflral Middleton sent
back to Fort Pitt for a large supply of ammuni-
tion, and a campaign of a couple of weeks at
least was looked for. All these plans were
suddenly upset on the ovening of the seven-
teenth of June, when scoutb returned from north
of Beaver River with the news that the McLean
family and the other captives who had been
taken north of the river by a l>and of Wood
Crees had been released, and wero then work-
ing their way southward to Fort Piti, A party
set off on tho trail of tho captives vo render
them assistance in their flight. Tho scoats also
gained the intelligence that after the relinqiiish-
ment of the pursuit by General Middleton, Big
Bear's confederation, already greatly reduced,
broke up into small bands and that their supply
of provisions was beginning to get low and their
ammunition hod given out. Big Bear had
heard of the surrender of Riel, which he did
not believe, however, and he, with a small
band, had struck eastward from Loon Lake
with the idea of either reaching Riel, or of going
north-east to Oreon Lake, where there was a
Hudson's Bay Company's supply post with large
stores of provisions. General Middleton decid-
ed to return immediately to Fort Pitt and to
withdraw all the forces to that point. On the
18th he started back, and on the 20th reached
Fort Pitt, bringing news of tho escajie of the
captives. On the morning of June 22nd, the
captives, to the number of twenty-two, arrived
at Fort Pitt, all well. They had not been ill-
used, but they had suffered from the hurried
flight through the swamps, the women being
often comiielled to carry their children of tender
years through the morasses, which had been
deemed all but impassable to the lightly equipi>ed
trooiM. Toward the last, when provisions began
to give out, they suffered from hunger, and
after leaving the Indian camp they wero com-
pelled to live on rabbits for several days.

This party, who had been in Big Beor'd camp

sinco the capture of Fort Pitt and some ever
since the massacre at Froc Lake, consisted of :—
William McLean, Hudson's Bay Company fac-
tor at Fort Pitt ; Mrs. McLean ; Miss McLean,
aged eighteen ; Eliza, sixteen ; William, twelve ;
Katherino, fourteen ; Angus, ten ; Duncan, five ;
Euphemia, four, and an infant in arms ; Geo,
Mann, farm instructor at Frog Lake ; Mrs,
Mann and throe children ; Jamo \. Simpson;
W. J. Simpson j Malcolm Macdoi.ald ; Robert
Hodgson ; John Fitzpatrick, farm instructor at
Onion Lake; Masson, his wife and four children.

All the captives having been released, and the
strong force gathered together under Big Bear
having been broken up into small parties in-
capable of offence, General Middleton felt that
tho work of tho volunteer army had been com-
pleted, and that tho campaign was over. The
Mounted Police and regulars could bo safely left
to finish tho work of capturing , c xmall bands
and bringing tho murderers . ' plindererp to
justice. On the 20th Big Bisvr was reported by
HCoi'ts to be at the Pelican Lake, m i; h of Green
Lake, where Col. Irvine and his force were sta-
tiimed. Colonel Otter, with his energetic little
column consisting of the Queen's Own of Toron-
to and C. Company, was following hot uiion
his trail, which lod through the almost impass-
able country which has been before described.
From Fort Pitt the fighting columns, which had
reached it by long forced marches from the dif-
ferent bases hundreds of miles apart, and had
fought three different campaigns, prepared to
embark together to march to Winnipeg by a
fourth route and by more comfortable means.
The steamers of the different navigation com-
panies of the North- West wero used to trans-
port the troops, vi& the Saskatchewan River, to
Lake Winnipeg and thence up Lake Winnipeg
to Winnii>og.

The campaign has had its heroines as well as
its heroes. Among these a foremost place wil'
be given to Mrs. Kate Miller who was head o.
the staff of nurses at Saskatoon Hospital. M.- '.
Miller had undergone a thorough training of
three years at the Generol Hospital of Montreal,
which she left to become head nurse of the
Winnipeg General Hospital. Immediately after
the rebellion broke out she offered her services,
volunteering to take the field with the forces.
She was K>ven charge of the staff of nurses, and
has, by her devoted services, won tho name
among the sick and wounded volunteers of
another Florence Nightingale.

At Fort P tt, the news of the promotion of
Major McKeuwn, who hod led his men cf the
90th from th'j beginning to the end of the c im-
paign, to th'j Colonelcy, vice Col. Kennedy, was
received with acclamation by his men ; Captain
Forrest, another of the heroes of the 90th, being
made Mitjor. No praise is too great for the
volunteers and the small com|ianies of the
regulars who formed the force of the North-
West. The volunteers, young as many of them
were, nid a ■• i-V of which the best seasoned
rogulr -p Diiglt be proud. They had displayed
great [,o\%trH if < ndurance throughout the most
trying marches, and had shown great courage
and coolness in the most dangerous situations.
Tliey had made Canadians proud of the valor,
tho dash, <ho endurance, the discipline, and tho
fine conduct of the citizen soldiers. The volun-
teer force of Canada has been thoroughly tested
and it has been found worthy of the utmost
confidence, which it assuredly ix)S8e8ses, of the
|)eople of Canada,

THE RIKL REBELLION OF 1885.

[APl'ENDIX.]

THE TROOPS IN THE FIELD.

[The lista of the trootn uid Mounted Police which {ulioir have been preinred with ererr poeaible regard tor soeuraoy.)

ST.A.FF :
MAJOR-GENERAL MIDDLETON, Gknbbal Commanding.

Lord M«LonHn, Chief of 8t»(f ; A.D,0.'9 0apt. Wmk, Lieut. Douckt, Lieut. Frkek; Lieut. -Ooi,. Van STRAUBESZEE.OommandIng Infantry Brlitade : MaJOH-G^hirai.
Bxu'NUE, in Command 3rd Division ; Genkbal Laurie, in oliarge of depOt at Hwift (^trrent ; LiEi/T.-Oui.. White head, (juartunniMter-dune'-tfi ,
Lieut.-(^ol. Fohrkst ; Quartermaater*Oeneral lit Division ; Majuu Mc(1iubon, Quartormaster-Ueneral 3ril Division,

REO. OF OAKADIAN ARTILLKKV.
Lieutenant^OolonclMoNTIZAMBEHT in command.
A Battbrv.— Stationed at t^ufljoo; calle<l out 37th
March, 107 men, 4 oUcers, 3 g\ui8, 1 Katiing.— Captains
James Peters. O. W. Drury ; Lieutenants A. B. Kivers,
J. A. a. Huiion; Hupply OlHoer Lieut. -Col. Forrest;
atatt .Sergo!knts W. Muwhinnuy, K. H. Walling, J. O.
Cornish; HergeantsJ. Mcott, A. Mulcahny, T lomas Newn-
ham ; Ctirporals Pnnl Hmith, Jos. Mellon ; Bomliardiera A.
Maringer, W. (Irant, C. E. Long, J. Callaghan ; Acting
Boniliaraiers O. H. Wolfe, J. Staples, J. H. liridgelord, H.
Parlihill, D. H. Taylor, Thos. McUuire, John Shaw, Alpii.

T. Munroe, J. A MoDoiigall, W. H. Mclntyre, A. Niion,
P. Nolin, J. Bhlels, U. Sheward, M. Hmythe, J Stanton,
E. Statham, J. Vanier, V. Vanier. Attached :— Sergt. A.
d'Orsonnens, Privates A. Oorneil, J. de la Salle, H. Herry.

U.O. UuiMin; T. Uorniley, Uov.-Gen. B. a ;
KeUy, g.U.O. HuBson.

ONTARIO.

T. Hardy,

GauTreau ; Tnimptiter Jus. Brydtfua ; Qiinnura O. Aiiitt-
worth, U. A. ABSulin. Job. BlaiH, I>. Beaiulrv, T. Begin.
N. HuIb, p. Barnea, M. C'ltyne, A. Bertrnnd, W. O. Couper,

R. rhaliit, J. <.*a8ey, N. Chari>ciitit;r.P. Curltett, W. Cook,
O. UaouHt, A. Dlcmne, W. Uulnii. J. Futheraton, P. Fan-
non, J. W. Foater, W. S. FairlMuikH, Q, Oennwer, A.
Oiroiiz, J. Ootlen. F Hamilton, (1. Huafcit', B. Hotnie, J.
HarriHon, It HarUhorn, J. Hnrringt'On, A. Hubert, A.
Inirie, M. J. Kennedy, J. A. Kina, W. Kinsley, T. Kelley.
A. Laidlaw, T. Ijawlur. J. Leniuuin, P. Lniiglois, W. Lan-
garell, J. MarshaU, J. McOrath, A. W. MarshaU, M.
Maluney, O. McCarthy, F. Mellor, W. Mackney, Hydo
Manully, H. McGuire, U. M<<rciur, A. Maluy. J. March,
A. Moras. O. H Merino, N. (Juelletto, J. OGrady, H.
Paquet W. PhlUli*, W. Mcl>. Pentea, J. Itoaseau, T.
It)aoh, T. RmUUng, L. Saucier, W. Smith, T. Stout, W.
Bhuluy, J. Slade, J. Hlutor, M. Twohey, J. Turner, A.
Tanlif, J. Wallis, A. D. Waldrie, T. Webster, M. Wilaon.
J. Ooutiore, B. King; Farrier T. Foster. Attached from
Vuluuteer Batteries, aa Volunteers for active aerrloe :
Sergeant Thus. Richardaon, N. B. BrUade. Garriaon
Artillery; Bombardier A. Boutllller, Qtinuer H. T.
Miller, lat Halifax. Gar. Artillery ; Eng. Botssean, No. 3
Btttt. One. ; O. porter, Yarmouth Battery; W.Y. Wood-
man, DV*'; AlUblh

B jattery.— Statio/iftl at Kingaton; called out 27th
Taarch, 106 men, 8 offic ira. 2 giina, 1 gatling.— Major
Short ;Capt. Farley, Liei ts. Imlah, Chlnic, Attached;
Oapt. Ru.nerford; Lieuts. Power, Pelletler, Attached;
Supply Officer Lieut. -CoL Forreat; Master Gunner O.
re ; Staff Sergeants Hamann. Kerley, Sevignao ;
' ^eanta Walsh, Ijabat, Gaffney ; Corporala Godreau,
'(r>rtr 1, Baugh« Jordan • BDmbardlors WilUams, Walick.
...itpointu. Willis; Acting Bomljanliers Fellowes, Saunders.
Doyle l:''.''k:iali; Gunners Adair, Bt^ancon, Bnsslen} ;
DriTerBuckl.>y; Gunner Bowers; Drlvera Burns, Barclay ;
Gunner Cotonil»e; Acting Bombardiers McNuineo, Wilkin-
son ; liiimiK-'ter Hunianiis; Gunner Clerault; Driver
Cooi>er; Gunners Ctementrt, Dupuis j Driver I>oyIe ; Gun-
ners Dyoi., Dwyre. Drew, Kmond, Edwanls, Fectsau, Fel-
low* Fawoett, Fraaer, Gordon, Grant, Gardner, Oener-
aux; Driver Iioude ; Gunners Hunt, Hughes, Jolin, Ken-
i:2ily ; i)rlverti Keough, Kelly ; Gunner Kelly ; Driver
T<«>ve ; Gunners Lowe. l^>ader, Lynch, Lapointe, Ijonsdale,
Murin, Mahony ; Driver Meade ; Gunners McDonald,
Mun>hy. Montgomery, Murphy, Michaels, Malin, McKay,
Murphy, Matliun, Marquia, McCorniick, <)'Dnnnell, Pear-
son, Penketh, Parks, Prevoflt, Pettigrew, Ruthven ; Drivers
Reed, Robinson, Reynolda ; Gunners Reynolds, Robin'
son; Driver Smith; Gunner Smith ; Driver Stokes ; Gun-
ners Selwood. Stevens, Stephenson. Swallow, Sayera ;
Driver Suddahy ; Gunners Stewart, Billifants ; Driver
Stewart ; Ounnera Thome, Wheatley ; Driver Willis ;
Gunner Wilcox. Attached.— Sergeant G. Anderson,
Brighton, Eng. ; Driver W. Shelley, Hamilion F. Batt.

INFANTRY.
C Company Toronto Infantry School. — Called
out 27th March, 85 men, 6 officers.— Lt. -Col. W. Dillon
Otter, In command of a brigade ; Major H. Smith, in
command; Lieuta. Sears, R. L. Wadmore; Hergt.-Major A.
J. Spaokman ; Quartermaster- Be rgt. J. Swansiui ; C'olor-
Sergt. R. (Jumnilng ; Sergeants J. Bf Muuroo, Ohiut. Dick-
son, John Oalladine, D. Borlond ; CoriKirals Chtm. Helaw,
James Buma; Lance-Corporals Charles DoH. Mongeau.

D. O. Williamson, Chas. Peters. J. Peterkln ; BTiKlora F.
W. Atberton, W. F. Burnham, H. Foultces. J. McUod;
Privates W. AtUir, Jas. Auburn. W. H.^Harlier, H. Beau-
mont, F. E. Bird. T. Bramblea, F. Brewer. A. E. Hurbriilge,

E. Cameron, Q, Comlies, .1. W. Craig, J. Creany, A. Davison,
R. Elmore, J. Evana, F. G. Fenton, J. (lilmorc, S. Gilmore,
G. Graham, E. D. Griffith, J. Hagger, K. Harris. F. Hayes,
J. Hater, W. H. Holmes, H. Jones, R. Jones, S. Keeley,
T. Kennlon, J. H. Kerfut, (i. Lee, J. H. Howe, R. J. Lye,
E. F. Malone, E. J. Mayes, H. Morrison, J. Morrison, W.
J. Morrison, E. MacdonaUL J. Moodonald, J. McFa<tdon,
T. Neilly. H. ONeil. G. H. Pidgeon. W. H. Price. J. Reid.
O. J. Sauntlers, J. Strong, R. Taylor. Wm. Taylor, Sidney
Thomas, C. ThurstiHi, X Tingman, W. Tipton, O. Tuft,
A. G. Watson. H. Weaver, J. WestwocHl, J. Wilson, W.
H. Woods, D. L. Youdell, J. Zachariah. C. A. Zwicke, A.
T. Phillips, J. Dawe, L. A. Dent, F. Duuu, U. U. Dunn.
H. Edwards, J. EUiget.

CAVALRY.
A Company (Queheo Cavalry Bohool). called out 10th
April, 46 men, 3 otHcers, 33 horses.— lit. -Col. J. F. Turn-
bull ; LieutenanU E. H. T. Heward. F. L. I^essard : Ser-
geaot-MaJor Baxter ; Staff Sergeants W. DIngley. Charl-
wood ; Sergeantji H. Barker, J. Ham«-I ; Corporala A.
Ijefrancois, J. Widgery ; Tmnipetera H. Byrnes, J. O'Don-
nell ; Privates Bartlett. O. Bland. O. Brooke, W. Cameron,
D, Davidson. R Dodds, P. Flammond. C. Fowler. J.
Ooudreau, C. Guay, J. Hewar, R. Kennedy, M. Lemieux,
O. Leouanl. E Lapene, T. Lewis, A. Hethot, J. Blureucy,

2nd BATTALION QUEEN'S OWN.

Called out 27th March, 257 men, 13 officers,— Lietit. -Col.
Miller ; Majors Allan, Hamilton ; AdJuUiut Captain
Delaiuere ; Surgeon Dr. Lusslie 'Assistant Surgeon Dr.
Natiresa ; Paymaster Captain Blain ; Acting Quurtt>r-
master-Sergeant Heukes ; Sergeant- Major Cunningham ;
Supply Officer Lt.-Col. Lamontagne.

A Company.— Sergeants F. Kennedy, W. W. S. Howard ;
CoriHjralaC. Aldritlge, J. A. McMaater; PfivatesT. Agnew.

F. Bartlett, J. Connell. T. Cuvunagh. T. Gardiner, £. J.
Lye. J. O'Brien, J. H. Pine. W. J. Royall, J. Richard. P.
Seer. Wm. Sawyer, J. 0. Scott, W. TiUey, J. W. WUllauis,
A. R. Wickett.

B Company.— Lieutenant A. W, Scott ; Color-Sergeant

G. E. Cooper ; Sergeant L. D. Merrick ; Corporal Dinsmure ;
Privates Beekman, Campbell, Creighttju, Howard, Hurst,
Howell, Kerr, Luui)>eia, Letts. R. Pierce, Peters, Spence,
Sharp, Swait, Slean, Watts. Warr.

C Company.— Captain Hughes; Col. -Sergeant Warring-
ton ; Sergeant Chator; Corporals Thompson, Btatou, Lee ;
Privates F. Brodle, Beacon, W. G. Duuford, Graham,
Hutchinson, Merriday, Massey, MoLellau, Pullai^, Pang-
burn, Plumkett, Btaton, Warren.

D Company.— Captain Macdonald ; Col. -Sergeant S.
C. McKell ; Sergeant Strochan ; Cor{K>rals Dingwall, Smith ;
Privates Alexander, Bunton, Bingham, Cunningham,
Duncan, Danier, Gilpin, Harris, Hunt. Kcnner, Lamb,
Musson, Porter, A. E. Rowland, H. Rowland, Simpson,
Stuart. Turner, Thompson, D. J. Thompson, C. C. Win-
ter, F. W. Winter, Whiteacre, Wright.

E Company.— Captain Kersteman; Lieut. Mutton;
Senteants A. Robertson F. Robertaon ; Cori>orala Hector,
McPherson ; Privates Bailey, Bowden, Camlng, Cauldwell,
Diokson, DiasuArd, Gates, Good, Guly, Hunter, Harris,
Lowe, Mitchell, Price, Pigott, S. D. Rogers, TUley, Wm.
Venn or.

F Company.— Captain J. C. McGee ; LicHitenant Loe,
Sergeants McLaren, Baird; Ourporala Robinson, Mcin-
tosh, GilMon, Douglass ; Privates Agnew, Builey, A. J.
Boyd, J. L. Boyd, Boulton, Dcwar, Froser, Freeland, N.

B. Ham, Harrison, Laidlaw, W. Langmuir, A. D. Lang-
muir. MoLaohlau, McMaater, McKenzie, A. E, Phillips,
Scott.

G Company.- Lleutenanta Brock. George ; Sergeants
Townseud, Langtry; Coriwral McKay ; Privates A. Ache-
aon, Kddis, Flint, Fletcher. Gilmore, Macdonald, Mahaffy,
MciUillau, Nelson, Pike, J. Sanson, N. B. Sausou, Starke,
Wade.

H Company.— Captain Sankey ; Lieutenant R. 8. Cas-
sels; Sergeant World ; Corporals Puller. Green ; Privates
Auldjo, Broughall, S. Birchall, R. Baltlwin, Beaumont,
cuff, Castleton, Douglas. Fruser, Forin, Grierson, Geddea,
Halkett, Knyvett. McGee, Preston. E. Williams, Wallace.

I Company.— Col.Bergeaat J. Crean ; Corporala W. G.
Kennedy, Higginbotham; Privates Allan, Anderson, Dry-
nan. W. Donaldson, J. Garvin, C. (}ray, W, Haight, H. J.
Hamilton, Hunter, W. C. Lieo, Lugsdln, Mack, Matthews,
H. Molntosb, C. HcHenry, McLean, A. PearBou, Poslle-
thwaite. Perry. Rogers, SpUik, Taylor, Wigles.

K Company.— Lieutenant E. Gnnther; Sergeant H.
W. Mlcklo ; Cnn)orals H. B Cronyn, G, H. Needier, A. B.
Thompson ; Privates R. C. Acheson, A. Bowman, H. B.
Bruce, F. Blakely, R. Crystal. A. D. Crooka, J. A. Creasor.
R. P. Dongas, J. A. Duff, G. Lloyd, T. Marshall, A. G.
Morphy, P. W. H. McKecwn, W. Nesbitt, C. C. Owen,
Geo. Patterson, Jas. C. Patterson, F. A. C. Redden, R-
Ross, A. G. Smith.

BuoLEiiH.Bugle-MajnrC. Swift; SergeantJ. McEvoy;
Corp*)rals Win. Bryden. F. Elliott ; Buglers Geo. Brown,
J. Hill, J. WmliU. W. Smith ; Privates J. Brown, Geo.
Bruokaliaw, Brydou, Davidson, Geo. Frazer, John Green,

C. Ross, H. Swift.

Ambulancb Corps. — Surgeon Dr. Leslie; Hospital
Sergeant Pringle ; Hospital Corporal Fere ; Privates Bell,
Boyd, Batting Bain, R<ibart8, Torrance, Thompson.

PioNKER OoitPH. — CorjMjral Harp; Pioneora Doctor,
Batesoni Cameron, Brash, J. Bromley, Cunningham.

lOTH BATTALION " ROYAL GRENADIERS, *

TORONTO.

Calletl or Uhe 27th March, 350 men, 17 officers.- Col.
Grasett i command ; Major Dawson ; No. 1 Co., Capt.
<t. Howard and Lieut. Gibson ; No. 3. Capt.
ts. Irving, Hay; No. 3, Capt. Spencer ; Lieuts.
rrow ; No. 4, Capt. Bruce ; Lieuta. Elliott
^'utant, Capt. Manley : Acting Quarter-
.laster, Lieut Lowe ; Assistant Surgeon

Caston ;
Mason; i
Fitch an-
and Mich
master ana
Rrerson.

ergea

Over, Goodman, Davis, Magner ; Corporals G. Craig, W.
Rodgers, W. Small, J. Foley, Tlmish, A. Mo4)re, Price;
Privates Ansdown, Allen, Allen, Bloxum, Bumes, Booth,
Blevin, Beatty, Carter, Co'>k, Conglettm, Curran, Dye,
Dawson, Elager. Eraser, iJMi-ne, Haynes, Hare, Harris,
Ibbotson, Kllbj, Macdunnlil, Maverty. Maodnnald, Mit-
chell, H. Mlttihell, McKiiMtiel. O'Malley, Peters, Prioe,
Quigley, Rlohanlsop, G. Smith, W. Smith, Wilson. Whyte.
NT>. 3 Company.— PrivattMi Atkens, Blake, Burroughs,
Bruce, Baxter, Barber, BUUughurst, ikauglu, Cruuiu,

Crowcher, Coxon, Cantwell, Dean, Farrell, Farragher,
O. Freumantle, Griffin, Graham. Herbt<rt. Henderson,
Jeffries, Jack. Lane. Moss, Mitchell, Marshall, MUne,
Mooily, McGee, Newman, E. Nerman, Nelson, Pearson,
Pelty, W. Richardson, Reld. Reynolds, Reilfonl. F. Rogers.
Roberts, O. Rogers. Stanley, Sinclair. Scully, Stretton,
Smith, Stead, Stanley, Thorpe, Woasett, Ward, Williams
Woodall.

No. 3 Company. —Color-Sergeanta Dale, Knight;
Corporals Fowles, Moore, Whiteacre, Johnson, Marsh,
Dickson, Taylor, llntchiT, Boultun, Hicks, Gray Privates
Belt/., Brennan, Breiiiian, Burrldge, Coulter, Cully, R.
(.look, Caiiipl)ell, Cock burn, Drake, Felcher, Hatch,
Mitchell, Geo. Mead. Mytus. A. Meml, Menarg. Metcalfe,
McDonald, Pollanl, Riddell, Raiulall, RotK-rt.% Scuvell.
Spico. Stayen, Btudholm, A. TrotU-r, Taylor. Tyler,
Taylor, Woods. Wyiie. White, Welby, Woodward; Bugler
Inipey; Drunimera Buller, Taylor.

No. 4 CdHPANV. —Color-Sergeant Cusack; Sergeant
Kitchener; Corporala Armstrong, Currie, liocke; Pri-
vates Brishaul, D. F. Baliner. Demiwter, Doole, Dick*
Donnelly, Davis, Egles, Kglea. J GonftHi, A. H. (lordou,
J. F. HughoM. HL-nderson, Langfonl, McKee. Mocgregur, J.
Mane, G. Pbillliw. Roberts. R. Ruas, A. Ross J UoiMlhimse,
Sumner, A. ScriWr, W. Syniona, C. E. Smith, F. Smith,
Trotter, Tipton, W. J. Crquhart. J. IJrguhart, Williams,
Watson; Pioneer Granger; Btaff-Sergeants Quluu, Hut-
chinson, Hazelton, Murray, Hardinge.

PioNKKU Cohph.— Privates Belt7. Golden, Bheppard.

Diti'M CouPM,— Sergeant Bewiy; Privates Burke,
Baker. Hrigden.Cuthl>ert, Carri'T, Dell, Gaughan, Huldeu,
Hume, Impey, Johnson, King, Myles.

l8T BATTALION GOVERNOR -GENERAL'S FOOT
GUARDS, OTTAWA.

One company of Sharpshooters, called out 30th March,
48 men, 3 officers.— Captain Todd; Lieutenants Gray,
Todd ; Staff-Sergeant Newby ; Color- Sergeant Ross ;
Sergeants Winters, Taylor ; Corporals Davis, Noah,
Toaker ; Privates Bunnell, Brophy, Boucher, Bovlll, Ches-
ter, Cossiday, Cameron, Chepniell, Cunningham. Clark.
Puller, Firth. Hamilton, Jarvis, Kingsley, Looney, H. H.
May. J. V. May, McUuilkin, McDonald, Mcllariy, Mathe-
son, McCracken, Mullin, Nash. Pardy. J. Pattt-rson, W.
PatteiBon, Ring, Sparks, Rogers, J, D. Taylor, Wiguins,
Weston : BugliTS Cowan, Moduner, Troopers Holl. lium-
phrey, P. L. Dragoon Guards ; Sergeant Dunnett ; Field
Battery ; Staff Sergeant Rogers, Private Osgouue, 43rd
Rifles.

MIDLAND BATTALION
Commissioned on 30th March, left for front 6th April, 343
men, 34 officers.— Lieut. -Col. A. T. H. Williams command-
ing ; Senior Major A. R. Smith ; Jr. Major Col. Deacon ;
Paymaster, J. Leystock Reld; Adjutant E. Ponton;
Quartern loster Capt J. P. Clcenes : Surgeon Dr. Horsey,
Ottawa : AHaiBtantSurge<m Dr. Might. Port Hope; Supply
Officer Lieut, -Col. Macdonald ; Sergeant-Major T. L.
Sproiilo : (>uartennaster'8 Asst. L. J Burrows ; Quarter-
master's Clerk L. V. MacDougali ; Hospital Hgts. David
Carson, Port Hojmj ; Onlerly Room Clerks John Hooiwr,
P. M. B. W. Htewart: No. 5 (!ompany 146th]-MaJor
Hughes, Capt. Grace; No. 6 Compaiiy f40th]— Capt, Bonny-
castle, Capt. Giles, Lieut. Bliss, Ottawa ; No. 8 Com-
pany [47th|-Capt. Kelly; LieuU. Hub)>ell, Sharp. At-*
tached :— Lieuts. R. J. Cartwright, G. LaMlaw, U. 0. Pon-
ton, A. L. Tomlinson. C. E. Cartwright.

Company '*G'.— Capta. Howard, Thos. Burke; Lieuts.
Brennan, J. Weller, R M. C. ; Col.-Sergt, Pewy Myles,
8th R. R ; Sergts. A. F. Tytler, Geo. K. Mark ; Cor|Hjrals
A. B. Rogers, B. Hendren, Jacob Rol>erts ; Privates Jos.
Anderson, Wm. B. Browne, T. Billings, Sanmel Bell, M
Bracken bridge, J. T. ( 'ochrane, S. Cn)we, Jesse J. Cum-
mlngfl. W. Crowter, Wm. Cook, Crowter, E. Daly, Chas.
Desgood, R. Downer. T. Graham. H. Hcgan, Hugh Hill.
J. A. Hannah, R. G. Kelly, John Lynch, David McKartane,
M. Mathison, Jas. McFee, Witfinm McDowell, Angus
Phlllij»s, 0. Parks, 8. R. Rush, W. ReynoUbi, M. H. Itegga.
A. C. Roas, M. Beery, M. Sedgewick, W. Tanner, Jaa.
Thompson, Chas. Wood, Marshall Weir, Wm. Wedlock ;
Bugler J. Beach.

No 7 Company, 15th Battalion.— Captain Lazier,
Lieutenants J. Helliwell, C. E. Kenny; ('ol. -Sergeant
Wlghton ; Sergeants Maiden. Alex. Robinson ; Corimrala
H. James, J. W. H. Beleher; Privates W. Alrie. C. W.
Bmndage. C. F. Burnhsm, R. W. Baker, JL Barlow, G.
Cox, C. Claff, J. Connors, J. Corbet, 8. M. Dailey. Geo.
Roes, J. E. Fry, Geo. Gerow,W. H. Gordon. E. A. Halli-
well. R. Hart, C. E. Henderson, J. Hamilton, W. Her-
riugton, T. Hammoud. W. Hatlctt, Ed. Howard. Jos.
Keirly, W. (J. Kerr, W. Livingstone, W. Morton. H.
McCullough, W. Mdiuire, B. Palmer, H. Smart. L. Sides,
A. ThimipHon, L. Vonu, L. Walbridge, W. Walsh, Geo.
Wilson ; Bugler Bro<1l«.

Captain Ed. Harrison ; Lieutenants H. A. Yeomans, R.
J. BeW; Color-Sergeants A. H. flmith, Geo. Wilson, E.
G. Bowen ; Corporals B. J. Hilton, James Merrill. P.
Howe; PrivatesW. Anger, Joseph Bay, George Bay, M
Breem, Oscar Covert, W. A. Darch, Juffleld Defeam. W.
A. Gaft, Jas. W. Howard, Barnard Hixluins, W. Hulley,
Joseph Homma, Wm. Keich, Jamea Kour. L. Layer,
George Leeds, B. Loft, R. McSteven. R. Parker, J. Pri-
deaux. G. E. Patterson. N. N. Patterson, (i. B, Powell. M.
Rogers. W. J. Redley, W. A. Street, J. Thumiwon. A. F.
Thompson, K. Vincent, Geo. Winters. Geo. Wesoott,
Alfred Way, Geo. Young; Bugler J. Williams.

Port HopK.-Capt. and Batt. Malor Ruil. Dingwall:
LleuteuauU K. WaUaoe, Capt. T. ti. Evaui, Ottawa, and

THE RIEIi REBELLION OF 1885.

Hmftrt, Port Hope. Non-oommlMloned olDeeri feml men :
Thou Hark or. Itnbt. lliT«rllr, John Brock. () lUmiM, J.
Divrk, l>. DooAliiie, Win. Ifowni. iittt (lilctirtRt, Koitert-
(IrMy, C E lliirniel, Wui. llurntM, Thi». Heulli), H.
J«l, VV. H. Kerr, W. (!. Killawnr, Kd I.«e, H. LonKlalr,
Joiin I t'lvler, Walttir Mercer. W Martin, Alliert Mllhr,
W H M«v.e, r. M<^Avi>y, M McNelali, W. Mclilll, Tho«.
MeiKoii, (TtmrleH NoUn, I>. OTonnor, F. rnwem, Win.
KiuM, K II. Kicliiiiilii, l>. Himltow, W. A HcriniKiur, Jaa.
1'utton. T. 'I'ltylc.r. W. Teiniieat, Adam Walker, II.
Wltliiija, J. W. Wiiitera, H Wiulilell. KobI Warner.

Mii-inidiKE ANii M*Nvriia (Toui'A.NV.~(!a|Jt. Chaa.
II. WlnalKw; I.ieuta II. K Miller, .1. V. I'reaton ; Col.
HerReant Frtnt. MH'urry; Hi>ri[< unt John lleatty ; Coriior-
ala Uolit Unilj, Win. Ouy, M. II HImoii ; I'riyatea Unto-
aon, Kd. Urown, Kred. I Iiwhrane, K. Frtaer, Tin*. Fraaer,

W ilaiiHlt, W.Oiirdiner, ('. (Iny, (leo. lluiihcH, Janiea
ew Hannah, ,11)1111 fli
'Cktiy, K I,i'lceat4'r, (
M<<'urry, lia Nattri'aa, R. I'owell, Wui. Powell, Thoa.

Htiwden, Andrew Hannah, ,Ii)hn flartley, Geo. .lauiieafjn,
(leo. I.ockny, K I.elceater, (I. Miliind, lleliry MeUIII, K.

Kehlll, .1. .Slalnlrnii, J. HUirey, (leo. tlallvr, Albert Uboaler,
Win YouiiB ; IIUKler H. Hherwood.

YORK AND HIMOUG BATTALION.

(7oinnilaaioned on 30th March, atartcd for front 2nd
Ainll, 342 men, 34 olticen.

HfAyr. -Lieut. -(-'oloiiel O'Brien: Majora, Lieut. -CoU.
Tyrwidtt, Wyndhalii; AdJutaut-C'avUili W. Hunter;
Hurueun L. T. Hmith: Aaat.-HurKeon J. L. (1. Mc(.'arthy;
Huii|j|y ontrer Lt. (i. II. Bale, (I (). F.O: (juarteruiaater
Major Ward; No. I Co. - Major (}ruhan>, Lieut. Laiidrlgan,
Lieut. Banting; No. 'J (Jo.— Major Burnett, Lieut. Drink-
water, Lieut II liliniot; No. 3<'o.~('alitainlA.'a4Uey, Lieut.
I.. Hhannon, lat Batt. O.U.FU., Lieut Itaiusay ; No. 4
Co.— Cant Ctui iibnll, Lieut V. Hpry, Lieut Lennon; No.
6Co.— Cupt llntuiiiaon, Lieut Vennel; No. 6 (Jo.— Caiit.
Brooke, Lieut Hyuiona; No. 7 (*o — Oaiit. Hiuith, Lieut.
Booth, Lieut rienry ; No. 8 Co,— Major Wayllng, Lieut
Leaalie, Lieut Allan.

i'AHKiiALK.— Corpa. J. H. Rmlth, John Malcolm;
Lance-CoriHiral Thoa. (lllmore; Frlyatea K. Bell, John
(.'ullena, Itolit (iilinore, Wm. (iould, T. J. UiU, Geo. Hut-
ton, Thoa Laird, Alex. Lliidaay, Jaa. Mar^eh, Jno.
Oliver, Andrew Power, Walter I'latt, (leo. Potter, A.
'I hecjhuld. Win. HIattery, Walter Hmith, Hi>aulding, Robt

ItlVKHHlliK.-StaflHcrgeant Jlrown; Color-Sergeant
Jobii Kidout; HergeantBell: Corporalsi). Foot.G. Bn)Wn,
Lanue-(.'or|uirala Boulbateao, J. Robinson; I'rivate H.
Apted. T. Armatrong, John Brown, 11. Berry, R. Cometer,
A. (^•x, II. Cairns, (I. R Koord, W. Foole, H. OoodwIn.O.
(Iray. W. (trahant, T. Hands, F. Lliciui, A. Otter, A. Potter,
Thoif. Paddi.n. C. Pliyi)era, W. Keiloalh, K. RIdout J.
Bherlow, H. M. Htowart, P. J. Kniith, W. Bhannon

YitKKVii.i.K.— BergeuiitH Fraser, Remington; Corporals
Ureenho, Bell: Privates Baker, Crawford, Cliaoman, T.
DowlInK, Knrlght, (iaae, Oreenwoml, Hogg, Hoodlesa,
t^aiiHtlaFe, J. I,atTerty, Maclean, Petty, Rauaall, Button,
Bleele, Terry, Torrance, Welah.

HEAl'ON vii.l.A(iK. Staff Burgeon McOreal ; Bergeant
(Irealia- ()oriHiral M. Connors, K. (Irealis ; Priratea J.
Ilruily, R. Barrett H. CImrchlll. M. Claniiiltt, J. Oracknell,
Dillon, ,1. H llnnlmnd, (i. Iloworth. A. Hewey, O. Mc-
Millan (bugler), J. J. Pritchar , II. Tippens, K. Stuart,
J. Btudholnu., W. Weathentoii, D. Woodlionaa.

Nkwmakket.— Hergeanta Kavanag'% Bogart, Wem-
haiu ; (.'orjioralB Keetch, Ferry ; Privates Armstrong,
Adamsou, Bellar, Bllnooe, FlintolT, Fleuton, Walter
Ferry, Wm. Ferry, (Jrey, Ilolleyshead, Hewett, King,
Kettle, Longhurst, I.rf'piH!r, Millar, Mitchell. Maiinera,
I'egg, Pi|MT, Peck Rigley, Sloan, Tiirline, Taylor, Thomp-
son, Tansley, West, West, C. Wenitnuu, J, Werntraui,
Watson, Young.

AOKuHA.— (Juartermaster Sergeant Collett; Col. Bergt.
Taylor, Hergeauta Price, D. Fgo, Farr, CoriKirals Mont-
gomery, K. Hand, John Ego, OBrien ; Privates Andrews,
Bowaer. Bimger, Baldwin, Bums. Crawford, Cockburn.
Crtttell. Cornell, Crosby, ('rockard, Dur«ch, Dent, Ellison,
H. Hand, Ilannan, Horner, Lyons. Ijong, Moor. Mindell,
Matt, McLeod, Ough, I'ringle, Pew, Stonehouse, Smith,
Taylor, Tetley, Wooden, J. Young, T. Young.

No 1. CoMl'ANV.— No 1. co-.Sergta. Anson Kiel, Murt
Mc( Earthy, A. 0. Burrauil, Nellly ; Corporals Wm. Healy,
II Buahnoll ; Privates John Burridge, J. Boyd, W. Boyd.
Jaa. Clark. Jan. Coston, Andrew Caaton, D. Clark, II.
('hriaty, Robt Delaney, Wm. Den. W. J. Davis, Marah,
Davis, A. Dion, H. Foster, J. Oriftlth, Wm. Heely, Jas.
Ileini-nway, Davlil Ilebner, (Jt^. Hazzard, Qeo. Hemiulng-
way. Win. Hudson, James Larolor, Wm. B. Mead, Fred.
Muflgrove, Wm. May, Malcolm McDonald, F. Neally,
Daviil Neilly, J. R. Nellly, Kathwell, H. Btewart, Theo.
Hwatza, (leo. SlieHteld, (ieo. Btockhill, (1. Tait, J. Tun-
kev, II. TuBkey, Henry Wilson. Bugler Barry White.

No. 2 Company.— Bergeauta T. Sallona. E. Orootford,
Btewart, Burnett; Corporals Thos. Ried, Joseph Dunham;
Privatea W. C. Boll, M. Bennough, W. Blair, J. Barhley,
T. Banting. Wm. Dyker, (i. Doane, P. Damplin, Elliott,
Fisher. Alliert (irier. John Green, John Gibeon, W. Hogg,
W. Kelly, H. Lemon, A. Leitch, J. E. Lennox, John
Lamriii, John Lavender, H. McDonald, Gen. McOabe.
A. Mckentire. F. R. Nelson, <leo. Munn, J Sprotil. W
Bniitli, E. Wiggins, F. R. Wood, Wm. Withers, O. Wil-
liamson, Wni. White, Bugler Frcil. McConkey.

No. 3 Company. ^lergeant-Major Sydney MoDongall ;
Col. -Bergeant Malcolm McDoiigaU : Sergeanta. WUJiain
Caniiiliell, Janiea Kirkiip, E, Mclntyre; CorvoraJsWm.
Holdsworth, J. Ilalliday ; Privatea t>. Amistrong, W.
Appleby, (Uirlis, (Sithbert. Cavanagh. W. Dodds, H. Ueli-
lier, T. Ilazlitt, P. Harvey, F. Jacoba, J. Jennett, T.
Moore, n. Munroe, Wm. Mandoii,^ara<lan,T. McOelght,
D McDougall, R. McConkey, McDonagh, A. 'Orchard,
W. Peacock, F. Perkins, Pat<Aell. J Spencer. Wm. Bida-
worth. J. Siiniaona, F. Sneath, Rcott Wm. Tracey, a.
Webber, J. Tondlnson, B. Tuck, Bugler Chae. Ward.*

No. 4 Company. -Sergeants W. (fllkinson, C. H. Dun-
ning: Privates Agnew, Ayerat, G Adams. Jos. Ratcman,
Brooks, M. Black, S. Bateman, Jos. llateniaii, W. Ilriggs,
Coleman, F. Cninplln, H. Cloae, Jolin (^lok, C. Ooolier,
Eiilrie, R. Plndli'y, G. Oollina, Giliaon, flilroy, Hall, R.
Jonea. Kelupllii, J. Lallounte, Maraten, McDemiott, F.
MeNauglitoii, Ptrkina, Pallock, K. Parker, W Parker, H.
Robinaoii, (I. Rogora. Smith, O. Smart, J. Boott, Q. Tlm-
mona, R. WhlUwde,*. Weeks, Wood*, Wilson.

7TII BATTALION. "FUBILIERB," LONDON.

Called out 7lh April, 237 men, 30 oHicera.

Staff. Lieut-tiolonelWIIIiainaCoiumandlng; Malon
A. M. Siiillh, W. M. G-utahore; Adjutant Geo. Held. Sur-
gH>n Dr. Fraaer ; (.tuartetmaalar Cayt J. B. Smyth : Sup-
pll UIBoar Uapt Huiliuu.

A CoHrANV.-Capt. Mackenile, LieutenaiiU Baply.
Bazan •. Color Sergeant Jackson ; Sergeant Beecroft,
(.'orporal Arthur Pugh : Privates B. O. Armstrong, Ardicl.
R. (Joughlln, Chapman, S. H. Drew, Green, E. Harrison,
Hinea, J. T. Hisaon, Alel. Lesslle, Martin, Matthews, R.
McK< nzie, W. M McLeod, Phillips, Rogers, A Reld, P.
K. Bcliabaker, F Badlier, Blade, Jas. Smith, Jas. Hippie,
O. F Williams, W. D. Wright

BCoMi' ANY. -Caiitaiii Butler; Lieutenants Chiaholm,
Giegg: (JolnrS irgt. Gould; Bergts McLlntuek, O Rourke;
('onporahi D. Dyson, James Gould, Brown; Bergeant
McCouther.lploiieer); Lance Coiporajadrahaui, Andrews;
Piivatea U. Arbuckle, Beaver. Brennan. Barlow. Crofts,
Channer, A. Davia, (leo. Davis, Davidson, Jas. Ford,
Ferguson, .1. F. Gray, llarwood, Jamea Johnston, Livesly,
LozTer, Matthewa, McRolieits, Neil, W. Hniithson, Somer-
ville, M. Wilaon, J. J. Walker, Wentoway, Watson.

C Company.- ('aptain Tracey; Lieutenant Payne;
Sergeants Anuudson. Auglin ; (-oriairals Graham, Wan-
leaa. Kirkendale; Lance (ViriHiraU Fysh. Dignam ; Pri-
vates McGiUivray. Jones, Pennington. Atkinson, Burrs,
Coombs, Hanson, Lancaster. Mulrhead. Mooie, Mercer,
McCkmmb, PetUt, Bmllh, Wright

D. CoMPANy.— Capt Dillon; Lieut Hesketh ; Sergta.
leDonald, W. Owens, MctJregor ; Coriiorals Mills,

, McBeth ; Private (Jowan, ('arey, C». egle, Cough-
i<. 'glfc, 1 H T)u\i;i, R. H. Dignam, J. Greig, Gamett,
-i. ' ■ I' 'aon, B. H. Humble, Ironsliles, Leonard,

^ >}el.tnilmlance), Moore, Mitchell, W. Mar-

tin, ■)■. .-.[julance), McCutty, MeC'oiliiick, IVnning-
ton, K I- C. D. I-ower,0. E. Keld, Rho<les, J. Biuith,

ItSmili. ! Suith, Webb, G. Westland, Watson.

E. CoM.-^ 'Uptaln Peters; Lleuts. Jones, Fope ;
Col. Bergt. Juci^ut*; Sergeants J. Summers, J. Keilson ;
('orporala G. Apteil, H. Rowlands, P Fields ; Buglers R
Henderson, J. Smith ; Privates T. Best, C. Butham, T.
(lossldy, J. ('owie, E. Dickenson, W. Ilayden, G. Hall,
J. Jacolis, J. Johnson. J. Kenneally, II. Martin. E.
Moriarty. J. Moisso. A. McNamard, D. McDonald, W,
McDonald, F. McNamara, J Norfolk, H. Notley, J. Pen-
den, J. Ouick, II. Kolph, J. Smith, C. Stinchcoiube, M. J.
81m, T. Tennaiit. J. Twafte^ T. Walker, 0. Wright, J.
Watton.

F. Company.— Sergeant Major Byrne ; Col. Sergeant
Line ; Sergeants Harris, T. W. Btanlield ; Corporals
Black, Thomas II. Hills ; Buglers Iiisell, Weir ; Privates
F. Baker, W. Brown, W. BInlay, Oollins, H. Clark, Oon-
nell, E. Clark, J. Crawford, Crc.w(Pioiieer) M. Crow. Dren-
iian, J. Grant, Hannigan, M. J. Illnley. Keewan. W.
Land, G. Lovell, T. Mills, J. Martin. A. C. O'Brien. A. H
O'Brien. Paine, R Pigott, B. Robinson, C. Thomas, L.
Wright W. Wilson.

O Company.- Color-Sergeant Alex. Borland; Bergean
J. J. Lynch, Frod. Fuller; Corporals W. Harrison, Frank
Lynuin.T. H.Parkinson; Lance-tJoriiorala Wni. Essex, G.
Terry, T Borland; Privates!!. AlPson, W. J. Armstrong,
J. Barrel!, Wm. Brazier, W. Blackburn, Wm. Carroll, Jos
Dickens, Nathan Dugal, E. Dayton, C. Gould, Robert
llyniera. Jv)hn Hood, Philip Hutchinson, J. McCutcheon,
Samuel Mc('oy, Jomea MoPheraon, J. McDonald. Wm.
Pate. Fred. Pickles, R. J. Robertson. D. Steele, P. Steele,
Wm. Smith. John Walsh, F. Whittaker, C. Woodall ;
Bugle-Major Page; Bugler Judge; Orderly room Clerk
John Conroy.

GOVERNOR-aENERAL'S BODY GUARD.

Called out on the 15th April, 78 inen,8officeis, 72horse8.

Major-Commanding Geo. T. Denison ; Captains Fred.
(Hiaa. Denia^in, Orlando Dunn: Lieutenant Wm. Henry
Merritt ; 2nd Lleutenanta Frank Andrew Flemlnu, Thoa.
Blair Browning; Adjutant Clarence Alfred Kinsey Deni-
son ; (Juarterniastcr John Sloan ; Assiatant-Burgeona
James Buchanan. Baldwin; Veterinary Surgeon John
Pratt, Bond.

A TKoop.-(Juartermaater Surgeon W.TIlley- Sergeants
Granger, Wilson, McGregor; Coruorais DonaldHoi),
Thoinpron ; Troopers Black, Bills, A. K. Denison, Dniry,
Flint, Granger, S. E. Guest, Hancock, KHne, Kershaw,
MiUey, E. J. Murphy, J. F. McMillan, Newton, Pearsall,
Pearson', Risch, Sims, Bkaith, Btinson, Btretton, 'Wood-
Imrn, Walsh, Wataou; Trumpeters Moclntyie, Craig,
Dent, Bennet

B TROOP.— Sergeant PuUen; Corporal Bain; Troopers
Anderson, Bryan, Bell, Brunell, .lames Bain, Boddin,
Corrie, Chailwick, Douglas, Felton, (Jager, Gray, Hurst,
Hunter, Hamilton, Harvey, Klien, Latham, Menan,
McKay. McNab, Nelson, ()'( onnell, Ricliey, Richardaon,
Smith Sterne, Sparrow, Tllley, Watson Weatherstone.

QUEBEC.

bSTH MOUNT flOYAL RIFLES, MONTREAL.

Called out on 27th March, left April 2nd, 317 men. 23
oflloera. •

Staff.— Lient-Col. Oulmet ; Hajora. Lt-Col. O. A. E.
Hughes. C. A. Dugas ; Capt. Ronert ; (juartemiaater
Larocque ; Paymaster Bossd ; Burgeons Pare, Simord ;
Bunpl]> oncer. Captain Wright, 43rd.

No. 1 Company.— Oapt J. B. Oatell ; Lieutenant Plln-
guette ; Sergeant U. Beaudoin ; Corporals E. Beaudoin.
A. Robichaud, E. LatuUppe ; Privatea G. Aumond, A. T.
Belanger, A. Bourgeois. M. Oadleux, L. Chalifoux, R.
Caples, A. diartrand. Conway, Chas. Daoust, O. Drolet,
L. Uoulet, L. Houdin, E. Jobin, Jos. Lanthler, J. Lalielle.
L. liOngpre, A. Maison, A. Michaud, A. Karbonn, A.
Ouiniet, A. PtcsTd, J. Parent, F. Robert, N. Robert, J.
Wirehold ; Ttumpet>Mlijor Jiis. Arihur.

Nii2. CoMPAKV.— <%iiHiln Des Troia Maisona ; Lieut
De Georges i CoL Bergeant J. B. C^arest * Bergeanta H.
Davenport, C. .1, Duc^eansor ; Corporala E. D. Porcheron,
H. 1*. Kelson ; Privates F. O. Adams, Boucher, Beaudry.
D. Bouthtller, T. Bell, A. Beaudry, I). Beaud?iin. V.
Bourgeoiau, (.awthoru, A. J. Conijell, N. Clarke, O.
Dauoat, L, Difijardins, J. Froser, H. Flanigan, T. ()ugn<-,
N. Hotte, JoUcoeur, Martel, Menanl. Moreau, McGowan,
Pregeau.Benaud, J. Smart, H. Boott, J. Hcott, J. Waller,
Wertgate.

No 3. CoMPAKY.— Captain E. Beauset ; Lleuts. Btames,
A. Vllleneuve ; Col. SergeAiit N. <lauvreaux ; Sergeanta
S. l^uuault Ihicudin ; (Corporals E. I.t-8i>eranoe. (7.
PoqtM-tte ; PrivBtea K. Brala. A. Brala. A. Boisvert, A.
Browning, J. (V«uio3)y, A. Chunard, J. Corbeil, J. Chart-
raud, Ch.idt!au, J.OhAplenu, J, Desgroulaila. J.Dealanrler,
D. Forgue, A. (Wnnn, GwtMlettc, .1. Gauthler, E. Houle,
R Huot, A. Lavlolette, J. Marootte, E. Mallet A. Meri-
neau, J. Marootte, J. Martin, N. I>rieiir, A. Richer, P. Sar-
radn, S. Boulierre, A. Bauriol, J. Bavard, V. Vlwx.

No 4. OOHPANT. -Captain A. Boy ; Sergt-Major L.
TiaheUa ; Ool. Bergta. J Dnbord, E. Honle, P. Vaaquette ;
Corporala R Vall4i^ Poullot; Privates Jos. Barry. Bour-
get, A. Bourdoo, N. Bone, 8. Uarll, A. Ureyliua, H.

Dufresne, A. Dumont, Z. Desiwtes, De Fortli, R h.
Ecuyer, J. Frenette, H. Fafard, J. Gauthler, Orenler E.
A. (Jravel, S. Gaston, (;. Gravel, W. I.«ger, A. C. Lachell,
E. Lemay, A. Mousaette, J. Martlnean.L. X. Poullot, Jos.
Panuette, B. Rodier, J. Boy, A. Tessler, D. Traversler,
A Wllscamp.

No. S CoHrAMY.— Lieutenant trilleneuTe ; Bergeant*
A. Lupien, A. Daniour, A. Thibanlt. Geo. Brunnet ; Cor-
porals E. Desnoyers, H. Lafrentlere. J. Barre, J. Htanton ;
Privates Andrews, A. Boucher, T. Bell. W. Ueauuhunip,
A. Cowan, A. Dagennalt, A. iMsroBches, J, Donnelly, J.
Dudevoir, J. Despaitis, J. Oauvreau, L. Jutras, L. I.eiliie,
R E. Leclair, W. Lapino, F. Lessard, J. Morin, A. Miir
ceau, H. Mathleu, R. Metcalfe, A. Mllot, Jos. Parriaaeau,
T. Robichaud. 'W. Boartr, T. Streak, J. Telller. Telller
Ou Lafortune. M. ValoU, J. Whelan.

No. 6 COHPAHT.— Captain tilroui; Lieutenant P. F.
Robert; Sergeanta Leclaire, C. Fay ; Corporals K. Nolin.
L. Lapierre; Privates A. Anenau. H. Anglois, A. Aiianl.
O. Bertrand, A. Bursall, V. Boucher, A. Blals, II. Cham-
pagne, E. Clement, J. Chalifoux. F. CleruionI, M. lloucel,
R. D^ti, T. Dupleasli, D. Dausereau. L. DubunI, (I. Foiii-
nler, W. Gameau, T. Ga«n«, E. Houle, II. Luuriii, li.
I,atour. J. Larlvlene, J. Lavole, A. Lefalvre. II. Maroia.
M. Moujean. T. O. McKay, A. Rochon, L. Rose. J.
Renaud, J. RoblUard, N. Bt Onge, W. Hi ry, M. Tourville.
O. Vlaui.

No. 7 Company. -Cant. L. J. Kthler; Lieutenants O J.
Doher> , J. K. Bedar(l; Sergeants J. Dainmaia, L. Fnv-
reau .>. Ratelle; (JorporaUT. Deelauriera, A. Leblanc J.
Bancnagrln: Privates M. Oorrigan, A. Demera, E. llis-
coreaux, F. Deladurantaye, De tyuevillon, N. Desmarleaii,

D. FranocBUr, L. P. Favreau, Gulgne, N. Oervais. N.
Lamaroha, S. Lamoureux, A. I,evesmie, A. Liiae, W.
LIvemola. B. I.eclalre, D. Menard, N. PIcard, J. Klvi t, J.
Rupert, A. Rousseau, A. Btandeaux, J. Traynor, J. Vict r,

E. Verrala, C. Wilson.

9th BATTAUGN RIFLES " VOLTIOKUHS,"
QUEBEC.

Called out on the 31(t March, leit 2nd April, 204 men, 98
olllcera

Staff.— Lieut-Oolonel Amyot Commandant; Lioul-
Colonela Thomas Roy, Evanturel- Majora Dugal, Pay-
master, Frenette; Adjutant Casgralne Pelletior; Surgun
Dr. A. DeMois:AsaUtant Surgeon Watteis; tjuartei mas-
ter A. Talbot; Supply Ulilcer Mr. Wolsey.

No. 1 Company.— Capt. L. E. Frenette; Lieutenant G.

F. Hamel ; Sergeants £. J. Bould, G. Masse, Alf. liupii,
N. Morin : (Jorporals L. Morency, Joa. Drolet. D. Blaia ;
Privatea P F. Boulanger, Jolm J. Brennan, Jos. Bureau,
Ed. Barry, J. W. Barry, A. Curodeau, R. E. Dion, Oaiar
Deneohaudj Elzear Dion, £. Fleury. C\i». Fournier, Leon
Gulmond, Alliert Glguete, Rod. Gameau, A. Gagnon, Ed.
LeBel, O. Lepage, L. O. Lemohie, W. IjeBel, Alpn. Legare.
Norbert Molaan, A. Maison, B. Horicetie, Narclaae Nolin.
Joa. Nolin, Joa L. Plante, Real Painpalon, Nap. Parailia,
J. B. Paradit, Geo. Perrlo, Dan. HuilivaD, Joa. lurct.lte,
J. L. P. Vallerand, 0. H. 'Valtn.

No. 2 Company.— Captain H. (Jhoulnard ; Bergeania
Eudore Iiamontagne, L. Qlroux, BenJ. Vienno-Michauii ;
Cornorals Boaario GIroux, Fra. GIroux, Nap. (.'hambei-
land ; Privates, Joa. Aublu, Jos. Boucher. Joa. Blaia,
Theop. Boucher, W. Baril, Joa, Chamherland. Cauii;e
Chamberland, Joa CorrlvMUi, Thoe. Dionne, Chas ]>eli -
mare, J. B. Fortin, Nas. Fortin. Leon Fortia, A. Fecirru,
Joa GIroux. Louis Lefebre, Joa. Laroche, Gllbeit 1 oi.-
glols. ar., Cleophae L(troche, Phlleoa Lafrance, Nap.
Latulipe, Gilbert LangloU flis, Gaudloae Mallard, (imer
Molsan, Luolen Miller, A. Hartel. Henri Paquet Arthur
Fremont, Geo. Rousein, Oliver Rousseau, Theop. Boucy,
Geo. SIrols, Alf. Souoy, Chas. Bimard, Alp. Taixllff, Jcs.
Vllleneave.

No. 3 Company.— Capt. Job. C. T. Drolet; Lleutenanls
W. D. Baillairg«, Fleet: Bergeanta K. A. J. Cati, L
Chabct, Arthur Blouin, Adolphe Harcoux ; Corpoials M.
Fortin, J. B. Marcoux, E. Martel, C. Degulse, E. Patry :
Privates G. Beauregard, J. E. A. BIttner. J. Biron, G.
Blouin, J. B Bilodeau, J. B^ruM. A. Coulonilie. K.
Duval, F. Donati. £. Fliet, H. Glngraa, V. Oingras, K.
Ooulet, D. Hardy, L. Lavole, B. Matt«, G. Ma'ouin. D.
McDonald. V. Noel, J. Nolin, B. UuellOle, A. Patry,
C. H. Plante, J. H. Plante, J. O. Bousseaii. J 11. Rousseau,

A. Robitallle, J. A. Bhehyn, N. St PleiK. A. Bt. Pierre,
O. Thorn, E. Touchette.

No 4. (company.— Capt Flzcar Qaraean ; Lieut. G. A.
Labranohe ; Sergt Major Jules GIngras ; Sergeants. Alp.
Godbout, L. Ijichance. Phil. Miller; Corporals Olivier
Matte. Jean Mercier. Jean NadeiMl ; Privates L. Blaia J.

B. Blals, Alfred Blaia. Ellle Boriellet, Elzear BNiin, Reuio
Buteau, J. B. Bibault, Jos. Cantin, Chaa. (^iiradi-au,
Oneaimo Cantier, Theop. Danjou, Ulric Devarennea, Eug.
Emond, Gaudioae Kmond, Jean Guy. Frs. Golin, Alexia
Julien, Nap. Julien, Prosper John, Leonidos Jidoin, Oct.
Landry, Celestin Lan.-lols, L. Laroche, Geo. Marois, Nap.
Maheux, Theop. Marois, Eugene Morlaaette, Michel
Ouellet 01. Ouellet, Pierre Plamondon, Pierre Pi.uliot,
Jos. Paquet Nap. Paquet, Pierre Thilianlt L. Toupln.

No 5. Company.— Captain F. Peiinee ; Lieut J. V.
Dupuis; Sergeants Jos. Germain, reieaphore Tiudel, J.
B. E. Gosaelln. Omer Hamel : Corpouls Alphonse Nolet,
Edmoiid Julien, Prisque Maason ; Trumpeter Frnett
Tmdel ; Privates Ji<hnny Bedard, Leon Boucher, Victor
Bemier, Alfred Bil>eau,^o8eph Balllarneon. F. Bilmleaii,
Edmond Bois, F, P. Bols, Tim Bonvouloir, Fdoresrd
Cote, Joa. Croteau, Eiig. Vuhb, Clodlus Dion, Jules
Damour. Cyr. Emond, ¥. X. Gagne, Felea Giuiy. Nap.
Julleu, Arthur KIrouac, Eug. Leclerc, L. l.acbasacur,
Chas. Lamontagne, Jos. LeteUler, A. Letourneau, F. I.u-
croix, J. Moriseette, Ernest Paquet, Leon. Rouaaeau, Alex.
Robitallle, Joa Sampson, Telesphore Simpson, Geo. Tou-
chette, Joa Tanguay. Edmon VllleneuTe,

No. t Company.— Captain A. O. Fages; Sergeants E.
Lamontagne, Nap. I,e«lero, Geo Leelerc : Corporahi A. G.
Degulse, E. Papiriore, W. O. O'Brien: Privates Frs. Asse-
Iln, L. BonTomoir, F. Bedard, J Cot4, A. Carrcau, A.
Davis, O. Drolet, P. Foamier, J. Fontaine, O. Flood, H.
Oagnon, P. F. Oosselin, Z. Qulmond, Phil. ain»ras. J. O.
Gigeure. Joa Gigeure, J. E. Oosselin, O. Houde, Frs.
Hardy, L. P. Hardy, La T/eelsro, E. Laperrleuie. G.
LIzotte, Cha Laorotx, F. X. Menler, 8. Miles, R. Miller,
B. Papillon, E Paris, Joa Pigeon. C. PelleUer, A. Boy, A.
St. PInrs, E. aimaro, L. Therien, A. Vaillancourt.

7th Company.— Captain L. F. PInault: Seiaeant-Hajor
Edmond Trudel; deneant PanUiten Peiieiier, P. W.
Uaneau, J. C. RoutEler; Trumpeter Clia Dsnschaud;
Corporals Villond Bavard, Alex. Boucher, Cha Danits;
Privatea Lndnr AUain, Tnoa Blondeau, L. Bourgoiag, A.
BUIs, PIcnreBelanfer,. Joaspb Bouriet, Frank ColTeF, O.
A. A. Collet, J. F. bonoiitlsr, Joaapb Vortin, E. P.

OHH

^■K>

THE RIET. REBELLION OF 1885.

I'll 10,

J. Klvi I,

Felltealt, 0)rr Ulniru, I'lerru UuHMlIn, Joa. lUtimund,
' Roger <lo4lin, Jainea lliokur, P. L. JoUocuur, Alf. Lauran-
callti, Arthur lAToie, K. Laourg«, Arthur Puiteviu, u Nap.
Palletier, 'r*\M. Pampalon, J it. Palunly, Jules Panulh,
Fn. Petitolaro, P. Poltefln, H. Rojr, H. O. Illimi, Cyr.

anaud, J. T. Ht. Jarrt, N. W. Tanguay, A Turv<ioD.
TH OuMPANV.—Oantaln Nax. iiavaiMeur; Hurueaiita
nrl Balque, Olaudo Whenlor, Ueurl Marohaiid ; d<>rpar-
ArMno Boaudoin, Elz. Uraimult, Dauiaas Pue;
TatfiB Paul Brierfl, J. li, llelanger. Auguiita Ueauory.
.Ofiezime Barnard, Oeo. Uuuohard, Kiiaa (Jurutlaau, Uau-
'dioflo Oart>deau, Zt-pUrio C'urudeau, Eduuard Doaroilere,
T. W. DarTcau, A. Kiirtln, Adolpho (luy, Oeo. (Joulal,
Augusta Uauthier, Felix Gauthiur. KrnuBCUagnun, Arthur
Qagnon, P. Oreiilcr, La. Jiibln, Kdouard Lapieu, Heiu*!
liaurent. Nap. Lavjie, K. X. Luuiieux, Oennain Paradis,
Phllea* Futerii, Ely K'hhI, Nap. Rood, Ohaa. RobUlard,
Edw. Savard, Nap. Savard. Joseph Hiiuard, J^a. Trigaune,
Ed. Trudela, Ohs. Vezina, Thua. Vaughan.

MONTREAL QARRISON ARTILLERY.
Oallad out on the 11th April. 3S0 men and officers.
No, 1 Battkby.— C'apt. W. 0. Trotter; Lieutenant W.
0. Lulham ; Battery Berut-Mujor O. O. DeDuian ; Her-
i gennts Jat. Dempaoy, it. W. Uawson, W Hyndinau ;
' Uiirporals Alei. Morroll, E. Locke, J. Hmith, O. WiUiama;
.B jmbardiers J. Cuggy. J. Oonlon, W. Brown, J. GuUun ;
Gunners 0. Anderson, <}. H. Ouulln, P. Cowan, J. Cleg-
horn. A. Ooote, Goo. Clarke J. (Jhilichiule. G. L. Duncan,
O. Donaldson. J. H. Elliott, W. Evans, J. Grove, Thos.
M. f)arwin, H. L. Jackson, F. Mount, J. Matthewson, D.
J. Munlook, Jas. MoNaughton, F. Notloy, W. J. Pendle-
ton, U. Buiyth, N. Huirnua, J. Hpero, A Trigg, W. J.
Willia ns, B. Williams. F. White ; Bugler Goo. Clark.

No 1. Battery.— (J»«,)>.1' •'•"••«h,I,loutanant J. A. Fin-
layson. Battery ^■,' . jor Alexander Ucott Her-

feanta R Brei.- ...,,i Harper. Corporals Nnrrla and
lolstuad. V. jinliariUer Wllllaiu Leo. Bugler Win. Oow-
ling. Oo'.nors U'irke. l>. Breniner, C Bunbury, L. Cotte.
"" C^.e, T. Daniels. J. H. Dodda, D. Finlay.TOn, T.
-xj^.ideii, £. Ferto, T. Fornmn, Gtis. Gibbins, Qreenstalk,
V. C. Gadiin, Hjrnblowur, F. Harris, Hardiuan, W. J.
iluir iy, J. Murray, Wai. Murphy, J. Perry, T. Porter, J.
/. Ryan, Tolling, TiUey, T. Wilson. H. Wright. E. Win-
groro. W. E. Wilson. Wjji. Wright, Hmall. Paymaster
Sergeant Fiddes isattachu'l to this battery.

No 3. BiTrEltY.— Ottut. Laurie oominandiug ■ Batt.
Hergt-Major .las. E. lllbbijis; Horgeaiits Rionardaon,
Jtruntili; Btaff Hergoant Ja.4. Cooiwr jr. ; Corporala H A.
H iwull, 8. I). Jonea, W. MuGuiunoaa ; Bonitiardlars P.
McDonald. J. Munii. D. Djwell. Chaa. Little, F. Jonea ;
Gunners Thos. Bell, \7. J. Barrett, J. Booth. Jos. J. Bell,
T. O. Brien. B.>bL IJr'twn, A. Oamerun, A. Cochrane.
Thomas Ojoper. W. A. Dautels. A. Finlayson, J. Fisher,
Joseph Gardiner, J. Harrott, Chas. Jackson, F. W.
King. Wm. Knoi, W. I,auria. O. w. Montgomery, Jas.
Murray, P. MoNamee, G. Mc^aniee, W. MoUombs, Wm.
M :Uorniiek. H. McCuUoch, A J. Payne, A. Powney, H. O.
Pattun, R. Bteelo, E. Smith, Jaa. Stoneway ; Bugler E.
Scott.

No. 4 Battiby.— Captain F. M. Cole; Lieutenant C
I,auo ; Bat. Sergt. Major W. J. Anderson ; Sergeants Ward,
D iwker. Uenmau ; Cori>orals Boy.l, Denuiun. Morrow;
Btinbardier Laird ; Gunners Brown. Brown. Boyco, Cox.
D inman. Debitt, Esden. Fliilay. Groaaly, Grunil)ly,
Il.irkocas. ^Hayland. H^yward, H.iilawortb. Kerr, Mor-
ro,v, M^tnn. Norman, Pearaon, Payne, Bheridan. Scott,
Teinpleman, Turton, Boyd. Dcnman, Watersou, Wylle,
W.ttera)n.

Ni>. 5 Rattbrt.— Captain Bteveuson; Lieutenant
Hiward; Bat. Sergt. MaJ.)r Benton; Borgeanta Clark, J.
Drysdain, W. Dryadale; Corporala BiokerstafT, Henry,
B^hradLT: Bjinljs'llers Fyfe, llerl>ert; Gunners Arinitago,
Uartb, B.Try, t-'.iuL Oonners, D. Connor, D. Clendinnlng,
Carter, Cullen, V> ■*, Cooke, Gordon, Hauey, Hannah,
HIgglMS, Hayes, .jnunson. Liuklater. J. 11. MuLhoUand, C.
Mills. Th.>s. M.'Grauhan. Nickle, NIcol. Hans Oslen,
Outh>^t. K)gera>[i. Robinson. Sloan. Timocn. Tower,
Tiiuoy, Virtue, Walker ; BtalT Sergeant Jas. Oolo.
^JJo^BBntitBY.—C.int. C. H. Levin ; Lieut. James K.
■Wtrr^ ijAttory Bergt.-Mijor Geo. Bradshaw ; Sergeant
F.igin : Corp.>ral Brophy ; Bombardiers Spurr, HollLday ;
Ounr.ers Allison, Thos. Anderson, W. Beck, H. Beck,
Barr, Bowles, Cro-.vther, Cjwper, Cooker, Doro, F. Fyfo,
A Fyfe, Fraior Frcrnan, Gilleard, Gillen, Humphries,
Hiiy, Homes. Harper. J. L»rkin. H. Larkin. Lawlor,
Moody, Massey. MoliiaaUan, MuNaught, Nugent. Phe'ps.

Poanloo, Hose, Bayniour. Symington, Sutherland, Win*
ter ; Quarterm:later-3ergt. Walker ; Orderly-rooni Clerk
Maxwell.

NOVA SCOTIA.

THE HALIFAX PROVISIONAL BATTALION.

Commiaalone.l from the 63th Halifax Garrisna Artillery,
and 6Jrd on the 11th April, 359 men, SOoHlce's,

STAFr.— Lieut -Col. .;. .1, Breinoertieth ; Miijore, Lieut.

al. C.J. MacDonald Blth., Walsh ejrd ; Licutenanta

-' posted t:><'.)mitaniej. ,laines Breinner, Alfrinl Whit-
a, .1. A. Mc<;arthy. 11 >wnkaii B >ggd, Herl)ert H-mukvy.

;1^. Cirtwright, A. A-rlurson ; Ctpt. and Adjutant E.
t Ketmy, Surgu.>ni Toltut, 66tll ; Harrington, <i6th ;
Otiartermaster Cipt. Gorbin 63rd ; Paymaster Cipt. Gar-
rison, H. G. A.

Captain C.inninghani ; Lieutft J T Twining, C. J. Mc-
Kie ; Surgeanti L^uis Uixoii, Henry Reynolds ; C.>rporala
Geo. Brown, 11. P. Itezans.i.i, R. B. Elloltt ; L^noo C.>r-
pnrals F. R Brown. J. S. Chlsholin, Ohai W. Gibson,
Edward Hunter ; Bugler E. M. Studil ; PriraleJ II. Black-
Wi>od, R. Biaclnnore, John H. Brown, W. H. Fraser.. H.
E. Fraser, J. L Ferguson, Jas. Fraanr. LesliuFraser, Frtnl.
E. Htlls, Chas. Muiiroo. h. J. Mvllus. Himh IVljNah,
Chaa. Mcljcod. W. 11. Pentz, Jas. 11 >ss, B. ll Romans,
O. W. Romans, Siitclife, F. Theakslone.

Captain Heckler : Lieuts. Silver, James, Bnrgoanta
Kalzer, Conrod, M'lmfonl ; (Jorp<>raIs M. Keefe, W. O.
Sterling, Myers, Eunnernon, Pickford, Humphrey, ;
Bugler Taffe ; Privates Andrews, Buteman, Creightmi, C
8. Camenni, Gray, Hesaon, Itarria. Muir, Mumford,
M >tt, Munnis, Mivcklntr»)h, J. S. McKay, Quirk, Storey,
W. 1). C. Spike, Bullivan, Jaa. Barre, Taple, Vogel, H.
Wood, V. S. WooUard, Watt.

(Japtain Foituno; Lieutenants Fletcher Silver; Ser-
geants Cullen Tobln. Oldham ; Corporals R Dalnranple,
H. Hurley, Johu O'Oonnell ; Privates Richard Andenon,
Antlerson, Buyers, Geo. Burgly, Thos Braokett, Ounnlng-
ham. Peter Fleming, Higglnaon, Kelly (bugler,) Kennedy,
' ' wn, E. Mouagnan. Mnrwick. W. MnnafMO, John
i>l. Kd. U'Uoimoll, U'Dounell, O'Donohue, FowaU,
M, Waterfleld.

,.,''MifS'" *'«•'«'>; Lleutenanl Fiskiv; Sergeants Hiekey,
jy. Williams. 8. W'illlams. J Vonng ; (V.rporals Hartlen,
I--. Hartlen ; Lance Corporala Hughes, Harroman ; Prl.
viitya Andtrson, W. Berfy, 11. Berry, Cochran, Dovauey,
(isher, omaa, (IrtlHn, Jmies. llortim. A- Hare, H. Han-,
*}• ,'."lii.^- Mickey, A. Hlli, AHru<l Hare, Jones, Know
doll, MlUkem, Morgan, McDonald, Molmila, C. O'Brien,
Itomua Sloaii, Troup.

Oaptefi Moklnlay ; OorporaU Merlin, Ourry. Mabom ,
J!''.',*^ y*^ .S™""' ■'• tJonta'i. W- H. Gray, (■. Oraliam,
^- '^.'S!"'.".'' .*• •'"hnaton, J. Klly, J. S. Murjihy. J. Mar-
tin, W, Mullgh, Joa. Murphy, V. Mabee, J. MeDcnnutti
P. iMoOrath, A. Norris, 0. J. Ouinan, Geo. Parker, 8.
S?,'.',^ "• „*»!"'. U. WIttle, A. Wilson, M. Wuroll. S.
Withers: Bugler Corporal Vcm Sohuppe.
„Cap», Humphrey ; Sergta. Fluck, Kosboltcm ; Obrpor»ls
;;'?,• Bn»k^ Cructor, Chambers ; Privates Bracket, H.
Holland, O. Uedan, W. J. Tupper, W. Vmuig. A. Andrewa,
Alfred Andenon, Jaa. Barret, A. Bauld, (.'. Bewuiab, W.
C. Bishop. E.Buaby, W. Ilrjwn, J, F. UaldwoU, John
Dalmer, B. Edumnda, John Fitzgeralil, D. Faulkner,
John Fitigorald, C. B. Feigiwon. R. Flynn, W. Fitzgeralil,
J. MIgdns, F. Hendersim. II. Hill. J. Hill. T. Huliloy. R.
Johnston. A. King, M. Lawless, J. Latter, John Lma-
han, O. Lovemian, A. Mah ir. Jaa. MeDonalil, F. McUod,
L. Power, John Renwick, John Reilly, Thonnis Rouse, 8.
Saunders, R. Sheppard, A. Thoiniu, J. Torry, K Viilons,
C. Ward, W. H. Walker; Buglers J. Connors, Uoul,
Power.

HiLLirAJt a,iitBiaoN AjiTii.i,BiiY.-<7aptaiu J K. Cur-
ren ; Lieutenants HoKenisie, James Fairlunks, A
Hare; Battery Sergeant-IL»)or Rolison; Sergeants P,
Lowrie. W. W. West ; Uorporal.i N. Isnor, R. M.
Sherlock, O, H. Adams ; Bimiliardlers C. 8. Hunt. C.
Kiilstoii, John Davios ; Gunners Geo. Anderw.'U, A.
Bexamiyn. W. Chapman. 8, Charnnn. 11. J. Caldwell. J.
W. Caldwell, ThumaaOujl. Geo. Chiipmau, K. K. Ember-
y, T. T. Everett, Robk. Fi.ldier, ^/ Kruwloy.D.H Harrln
J. Uinos, 11. JolMtjoi^ Geo. JaoK-iou, Julin Kelly. R
Kempt. W. I.K)iiilly, J. LanUigaii, J. It Maishall. U. .Mit-
bury. A. Marriott. T. Moivau 1) Mu«louald. A. Pitta,
Hanford Smith, Geo. W. Biggins, " ■
Tough, T. Uinlah, Josei' " ' ■ ^

Captain J. McCrow ....,„.„„„„,., „. ,,. „„„„, „ .,.
Shiminlug, H. Hare; Bargoauts W, I), Hill. J. R, Kiddy;
Corporals Wm. Oorlxjtt, G. A. Naullla. H. Balcoin ; <luii-
iiers, 8. Adaiua. G. <>. Bruce. Hjlreinea. J. Iliicke, 11.
Carrol, O. A. Carrol, W. Oalnaii, Albert Kyoerg. U. Kiold,
F. Garuett, M. Gilison. Goo. Harriiviii, T. Hornelaan, J. H.
Innos, R. W. Jones, W. Laney. John Lyson. W. Lcwlsi
O. Manuel, Olios. Morris, J. W. Marshall, J. McDon-
ald, J. McVien, J. McDonalil. .1. McDonald, B. Noblm
T. Pubble, Wm. Power. O. Power. Jiw. Reunion. Wia
Stephea, B. SlnOold, 8. Tomlin. G. Townauml, li. Tiaoor.
inla, Geo. ThoruWin, W. A. Verge, G. Wakottold, Ben.
WaUaco.

1. iuor.;a-i u. oiitcnonaiu. j\. I'liu*,
[ieo. W. Biggins, J. Byniuna; Guori^ii
Joseph Unilah, F. Weathurly.
'row* Lieutenants W. L. Kane, R, 11.

MANITOBA.
Mtb WINNrPEOWBATTALION OF BrKEa

The T3ter»n8»of the war on th« Held fr;)ni«th»J7th of
March, ;^ men, and offioera

Staff —Major Mcl«eand in (»mlnanil ; Major Boswell i
Bucban Adjutant ; Surgeon G. Jj. Ortoii; Assistant Sur-
geon Ur. Whiteford ; Quartermaster McTnvish: Sergeant
MitJorWats.m; Paymaster Sergt. E. K. Campbell: tiuartet-

i>.n«l«r i9craeiM,b lt<.sci« . rsusptutl rswrntiunt McBwen^

A. Company.— OapU C. F. Forrest ; Lieutenants Hugh
J. Miicdonald, R. L.. Sewell ; Pi^y Sergeant Buchler ^
Hergeants Steele, Mockliu; Cori^'jrals Kemp, Doyle,
Thuaker, Maguire ; Bugler Ditohatiau ; Prlvatej Biut'oui
Brooks, Bailey, Blake, Buchanan, Bouehottii, Deane.
D.)yle, Ferguson, HuokoU, Howella, Hutchinson, Jonea,
Kemp. Kit'ly. lAOtb, Longlioail, Link, Merritt, Moffat,
Mitchell, Morrina. Matthews, Mornington. Mowat. MoGee.
McAuiey, Mclnnea G. MoAllUter, D. MoAllister O. Dell,
Piukerton, PoUon, Playfsir, Ridder, Reiii. Nproat. Shaw,
Street, Bouthwick Thuiiuan, Wuoton, Watta', Bugler
Hardie.

B, OoMPAHir.— Captain B. N. Ruttan ; Ueutenanto (h
W. Stewart, J. O. Healy ; Color-Sergeant H. D. TuUoch ;
Sergeant 0. A. MilUcan ; Cori>orals Win. Baillie, Thomai*
Johnson, Geo. Peterson ; J,anoe, Cori><iral H. B. Fronson ;
Bugler J. Buchanan ; Privates Ancill, Beat/, Betta,
Chappell, Fry, J. Fisher, C. Green, B, GUmoro, T.
Hiekey. B. Harrison. Ingram, B, Izanl, Juoil, W. O.
Johnson, M. O. R Jarvis, Lovelt, W.. J. Mochan, J.
M'lyses, H. Moyses, Chaa. .McMillan, W. Menelea, J.
Oliver, PeterWn, J. R.)lH>rts, G. Rogers. J. W. C. Swan.
J, Stovel, A.T. .Mmowell, Whalan. 11 Wilkoa,& Williams.
A. H. Wheeler. G. Wheeler. B. Zimmerman.

. O. Company.- Captain W. A. Wllkee; Lfeutenanls H.
Bolster, C. Bw:nford ; Pay Sergeant W. II. Cullen ;
Sergeants F. R. Jackes, Tees; Corjwrals Ijcthbritlge, Code,
Stephens ; Privates Allen, Armstrong, Booz. B'..acheller.

A. Cameron, Chainliers. CannifT, Croighton, Curry,
tlanioroi^ Dowker. Fraser. Fraser. Howden, Hugheii, Hur-
rell. Leigliton. Lewis, McKay, .Mahoney. J. McKay. Morgan,
MdJ irmaoll^ Malciiliuson, Nixon. Onle. Porter. Slater.
Shearer, Turner, Taafe, Whltlaw, A. Young, R. Young ;
B'litler McGiOln.

I). CuMl'ANY.— OaptUn Warsnnp; Llouts. Zach. Woods,
n. Arnold ; 8org.tiU>r Go,). L>i*oughikll ; Pay Heruean*.
Smith ; Sergeant,* Leiv it^wai-d ; Corjiorals Colgati*,
Richardaoo. Siueo.1 ; Piivar™**. Bowilel>, Brown. Bush.
Brun.lit, Cooper, D'Aroy, Davis. Dean, Reeve Dunn, Ennes,
EricK&ia. Bdwaras, PeriPiSjon. GrahiMn.Grabiirn.Gawure.
Gall. riAma. Uardiatv, Johnston. Kemp, Mullins, Morris,
Morgan, McH >ble, McLftCnlan, Mcllovetil^ Pritchanl,
llMtM, Shore, Wasdell Waniwrlght, Yuilr

E. CoHPAKY.— Captain R. J. Whltlaw ; Lieutenants
E. U. piohe, A. E. McPhillips; Color-Sergeant R C. Dick-
s.m : Sergeants T. W. Speannan, H. CiHik ; Corporals J.

E. Lockhart, W. Wave, W. Cook j Bugler H, Catlin :
Privates H. O. Buss. F Benway, W . B<mrke. O. L. Ooomljs.

F. H Clinch, W. Drowry, H. Downey. W. Eddies. U W.
Eyre. P. EllU, H. O. Fisher. J. W. Hopkins, J. Hazln-
wowl, W. J. Irwin, A. Johnson, E. Kern, J. Kellet, S.
Kyezor, O. Ijongmao, J. Mathews, A. Matheson, G. Mook,
R. Monro, D. B. MoDonald, John I'aton, R. Pomeroy,
J, Preston, W, RadoUKa, A. F. RfkilaL It, C. Reyncll,

B. J. Bmllh, R. Bhanklln, M. Smith, E. Taylor, U. Vancc-
lett, J. Wilkea, W. T* WhaUaiiu, T. O. Wood.

F, OoMPAicr.— Captain Win. Clark ; Lieutenants F. L.
Oampball, R O. Laurie ; Oolor-^eigeant O. N. Mitchell ;
SeiieanU Thomu Wright, T. 8. Smith ; Corporals H.
Law, J. OlUiaa, J.'Manhali ; Bugler R D. Campbell -
PriTataa A. S. BUdnrood, O. Baiter, J. G. Brown, R
Ball, J. DftUaa, RoM. QUllra, A. OlUiaa, O. W. Grant, O.
Holdau, D. Hialop, D. Hum, R Laurie, Geo. Bailey, C

(> Breach, W. Buchanan, A. T. Crowe, K .1 Caen F J
DawkliiB, (1. Downanl. Alfreil Devilt. f 'I .uei.
A. N. Mowalt. J Maopheraon, II. S. Mnlllnr, J It.i I
Maasle, A. MoQue.«. .lohn McDiarmid, Melnliiah, A
R""i JiSoo", A, Smith, A Shaw. W.ni Hlomans, Tl j
Smith, W. Wright, II (liKHling, W. rtunliey, F ( . K n
"""ly. H- Kirk, R King, Joa.*ph Limoges, J. Raitr
J. A. Btarrett.

WINNIPEG FIELD BATTERY.
,,*f»Jo' E. W. Janris; Captain L. W. Coutlee : Llei.ii
G. II. Young, (1. II. ()i(llvie; Surgeon A. Cisld M.D
Veterinary Surgeon T. J (». Rutherford ; Sergeant
Majiir 1 hoinaa Mion, Ir. ; Quartennaater Sergeant It. C.
I)ieka<)ii ; Beiveanla E. Doige, P. Quel}, (1. Btrachan,
A. O. Uisia ; CTirporala R. F. Hinila, J. W. Keeler, Thoa.
H. Peraao: Iliiml»tiliera R. T. Tnoinpaon, C. A. BoultUe,
(!. D Rlrhiirda ; Trumpeter C. W. N. Kennedy ; Gun
nera li Drivers C. A. BiMith, W. H. Browne, W. It. Bnul-
burv, S. M. B.)Winan, F. Boultl)«*e, F. H. (Viatis, C. F.
Corlwtt. G. Cainpliell, W. H. f Crawford, 11. T. Dalton, T.
A. DIslirowo, W. F. E.lwards. J. H. Evans. T. A. .MiMire,
A. McGregor. A. McGreaor, B. D. McQuieo, D. K
\"ll- ,H- Kn*an, J. fticiianlson, J. W. Radigir,
J. M. Buttle. W. J. Btlinsjii. C. C. Stewart, A. Walk-
er, 8. J. WoiKl, G. S. Wood, Z. T. Woo.1, F H.
Boxer, h. Foster, A. Fanisworth, G. Faniham, G. F.
Ollpin, G. L. Garden, C. D. Jarvis, K. KnowlUm, <1. O.
IS'^Y-X- ^- ''Why, J. Leltch, J. A. Lynch, II. Mnieim,
W. H. Mursoy ; Collar-maker F. Burling.
WINNIPEG CAVALRY.
Capt. O. Knight ; LleuU>nants W. H. DIslirowo, T. !I

Cameron, II Saliine,' W. Troltir, J.
M. Short, K. Johnson, W. Cowan.

UslKjnie, K Shiiit,

THE 91sT. OP WINNIPEG.

Staff.— Lieut. CoL Thomas Scott ; Quart r-master Capt.
Wm. II Iliuee; Major D. 11. .McMillan ; Hnrgiims
Maurice M. Seymour, Stuart Mulvey: Assistant Burgiim
Irank Keele; I'ttymasler Copt. W. If. Nosh; liiBis-eU.r
of MusVotry. (!»pt. Alex. W. Lawe ; Adjt. Capt. Wlllliird
Cook, CoiH-land.

A. OoMPA .N y. -Capts. John Alexander, MoDonaid Rowe ;
Lieutenants Fred. Irons llaniford, Wm. II. SauiiderH.

II. Company. -('apt. Thoa Waatio ; Lleuta. E. Cle nti

Smith. Richard Hunter.

O. Company.— Capt. Wm. Sheppard; Lleuls. Holland
C. Brown, Geo. Loftna Reiit

D. COMPAKY.-Cai*. Samuel J. Jaokami ; Llenta .1 11
Rutherford, Thos. Lusted.

K. Company— Oapt. Joseph Henry Kennedy ; LleuU
Major A. Cotea, H. W. ChanOiir.

F. Company— (Japt. Jaa. Church Vaugh ; Ileuts, Geo.
A. Gllnoe, Henry McKay.

G. Company. -Capt. R W. Allan Rolph ; Lleuta. Al-
bert Markoman, Fred. R Glover.

H. CoMPANY.-(;apt. John Crawford; LieuU. Aaron
Pearaon Cameron, Tnos. B. Browdgcest.
, STONF.WAI.L Company.— Captain S. J. Jackson; First
Lieut. J. B. Rutherford ; Second Lieut. Thos. I.iialiil ;
Color-Sergeant Kilwiird Ellis; First Sergeant P. 11. Clark ;
ttwioaul Hs*s.4u,ii. B. sv. nuvimnaiia i mv»i«n i-*e,*. ^ r.4..>
son, Wm. Brown. John Hell, A. G. Bell, Alix. Brown,
Horace Boyce, H. J. Casklll, Wm. Collie, Mat. Cm-keilll,
A. J Daly, Joseph Dark, Sjlas Dark, W. H Davis, Ed.
Duckfall, W. Rudersby, Jos. Forrester, Alex. GlUespy.
Arch. Oiliesny. Jas. Oilleman, Duvid Galbraitli, A. Good,
Kelson ("rood, A. Gooilson, W. S. Hogg, .lobn Hogg, Lash-
brook Hogg, Wesley Lutz, Arthur Maniz, .las. Mont-
gomery, Sam. McMahon, Jos. McMahon. I.- G. McD il,l,

Dugal Mcliityre, Don. Norman, Rich. Parrott, RnlH>rt
Parrott, Eph. Riely, Arthur ilmith, Don. Smith, W. II.
Stranger. Wm. Teedell. W. II. Waterson.

I'OHTAOB La PRAIHIfE COMPANY.— Capt. Wm. Shep-

Sard; 1st Lieut. H. C. Brown. 3nd Lieut. Geo. Uiade;
olor .Sergeant II. J. Woodalde; 1st Sergeant F. A. Hit-
chle, 3nd Sergeant A. H. Arden ; Corporals .1. H. Hudson,
Isaac W. Thompson, Dav^d Casaela: Butler Hal|ih Wil-
son; Privates W. F. Anderson, W. Ariiistrong. A.
Browing, J. F. Caninliell. John (,'iweter. W. T. (.'opetanil,
Simon Cameron, Chas. Clark, H. Dunn, Geo. Feiiton,
Otto arable, David Hendry, Alliert UamsUick. W. A.
Howrln, Wm. Hamilton. T. G. Holmes. W. D. Meehau.
John Marter, Frank Morrison. Willis McDonald. J. A.
McDonald, A. A. McPhait, J. A. McDownit, John Mc-
Elverey, Chas. Nelson, Geo. Pullinger, John Powers, E.
A Probort. A. Rose. Thos. Ruehbrook, W. II. Ross. W.
H. Reid. Samuel Ueid. t*a». Sliari*r, Chas. Stevenson,
ChiM. ThomiiBon, W. Wesley, W. K. Wood, John 8. Wig-
gins, Peter Whiinster, Ernest B. White.

TUB MoniiKN Company.- Captain J. 0. Waugh;
First Lieutenant Henry McKay; Second Liciitenunt
Alexander Cruikshaiik; Color-Sergeant W. Nelson ; Ber-
geunts Henry U. Pigutt and W. lapointe ; Privates Henry
Braiin, John (}. Buchanan, Thimiaa Cutting. John Dawn-
ing, Thomas Driver, Victor A. Driver, Forlt«*H Elliott,
Jiihn C. Farley, John Fox, Johu S. Gray, WalUr Hoop<<r,
Fred Horn, David Jones, Dwen Mnyd, J. McGregor,
Charles McGregor, Robert McKay, Fred. McDougall. John
MoTaggart. Andrew Nageli, Charles Magee, Andrew
Mage, John Montgomery, Hi-rb(rt Moore, David Morden,
Eoliert Munroi\ Arthur Nelson, Charles Biinmona, W.
Stevenson, W. Thompson, James Turnbull, W. . Wed-

iliiiii BLUFF Company— Cap»ain Dr. F. fl. Keele;
Privates Jann« Atkinson, John Bailey, Frank Evans,
Wm. Howie, Pte. Haines, John Hoaa, Geo. Moore, J. B.
McLachian, Wm. Naggj , EdwardJ"arker, Jaa. Richmond,
Joa. Tait, llobt. Tidsbury. „ . ..

MoRKiH Company.— Captain O. A. Uimc; ; "ergeant II.
Morris; Corp'rsl O. N. Oould: Prtvatea H. An,;"r8on,
W. Brown, W. J. Coleman, F. O. Gow, C. W. Johns;on,
Jas. Kelly, G. Lane, Jas. Moodie. Alei. Main, John A
Milcy, Wm. J. Maillll, Dju. McKay, W. A. Bennie, E<1-
wanl Siinpwm, B. 11. Short and Thomas Tennant.

Rat Portaok Company. -I'rivatea A. Andrews, ,T.
Ilanies, J. Brace»J. Aarnea, A. Berrard. J. H. Buchanan,
D. Chandler. M. DoLimry. R. A. Davis. F. Urader, J.
Elles, II. Fortl, R. Oroah, R. Honcywoo.1, R. Heslop, W.
J. House, C. W. Herriott, J. Irvine, J. Jones, J. A. Kel-
loy, W. Lockwood, J. Langman, O. Linkiater, W A.
Matheson, M. Murphy, F. Miilvey. W. S. Malcolm, J. A.
MoArthur, J. McKeneeu. R McLewl, J. McKeneen, M.
McKenzle, J. McGregor, R Ryan, J. Smith, D. Todd, W.
Wilson, A. WiUiams, R WiUiams, L. Wyatt.

^ \

THE RIEL REBELLION OF ]88«.

THBBiiAiinnif CVi.^. tur— 0>pUln Hwlli<; lilLlmt
riomrntlHmlth; }ii>ll.;..it. K. II Hunter :('ulrirM«r(Miit
.T.Aii T»»l,ir ■ H.-r«a.nU K. T. KTaiia, V. V, Yminji ; 0<>r-
ptmU K. J. MiM-iloiinvll. M. H. (lurnKy, V. J. MWniion;
I>rl»l*l W. riulwr, W. H. AnnMronf. f. Alkoiii, A.
Adunt, H. W. «. Hoiritr, Wtn. Hakar, t. HuMMch, A. .1.
RfturUir, ii. r'. Uilnii, F. HHrri(U<>, (l«orK« liollon, ('harlita
Unifton, A Oaliiulirll, l> Ouiiutnll, J. (Jolllni, i':<l <:hllil«.
V .1 (Murlii', .1 <'Miirti<x>, l: Ulckum, f. U. (Irsris, K. J.
II (Inxiiii, W. (1 (limwy. J I. (Irwil, W. P AuiIht, Wm.
llnokliM, (iKufKo lUnlny, T. Hull, J. W. Johliivin, K. B.
Kirlih»in, B. J. LiridMi|r. E. W. Uiwe, I^ II. J MInohan,
J. MaUhinra, A. )lo(!>lliim, Juhn I'attenuu. A. W. Pt^vM,
J. K. I'lirtln, R. J Kaniwjp. H. U ailiby, Juhn Btvwart,
Ji>hn Hwift, It. H. M Tew, .1. A. Ttaumraon, R. II. Ernnton.
John Vuia, J. II. Wilton, V. A. WUIlMia, J. K. YeUana
and Wiu. Young.

niio WINNIPEO LIGHT INKAN1R7.

lit-Ool. W. (HhorneHinlth, *'.M.O.,In command; Senior
Major, J. !.,«wli : Junior Major, W. II. Thllwiiilrau. Htall
Cllflconl ; Adjutant r'harlea (Nniitantlne; (?antaln and
i'^ynitutflr, K. I*. Li-acock, M.T. I*. ; Hiirifnon Dr. Penny
feather; AHaljttunt not aii[)olnt«<l; Captain and Quarter-
niaater R. La Touche Tupper ; Bergeant-Mujor Patrick
Lawlor.

A (UmrANr (Klldnnan).— Acting Captain Dr. Suther-
land ; l«t Lieut. I> H.itherland ; 2nil Ueut K. (I Maclleth.

BOoHPANV— Captain W. H Uaiiaran : lit Lieutenant'
.leorgg H II llrooka ; Ind Lieut. Frank (iralTe.

(mTohpany -Captain Frank I. Clark; lit Lieut. T. (t.
Aleiander ; 3nd Lieut. Curry.

U Company.— lat Lieutenant Oarruthera; othera nut
apDointed.

r. CoMrANV. -Captain T. Wade; lit Lieut. Hllla; 2iid
Lieut T Norquav

F CoMPANV-UapUIn T. R. Valanoey; Ut Lieut N.
(^anwell, Jtol Lieut. T. I> Deegan'.

HerKeantfl (7harlea J. Hollauda, J. 0. McKay, and \V.
A Panruia; <'nrporaUW. H. Thomaa, David '.!raniiton.
aiiitJaiueit Lawrie; Uugler Jauiea Weal; Prlvatea Robt.
A l>bot| Thou. Aleiander. Wni. Armitrong, H. Anderson,
J. Andt-rHon, Fred. Angleis, Wllllan] Anderaon, Charlea
Itathew, (leo. Butter, It. Ureniner. <ieo. Beck, Johnltun
llrown, J. L. Illack, Chu. Ilrlde, R. Brownlee, W. L.
Uruce, (leo. Butler, (1. B. Brooks. Oeo. Bruce, Ueo. Heek,
W. Body, It. Ullai, R. Breinner, C. Bemcaitle. E. Hrixler-
Ick, W R Burton, A. Burt, O. Berry, C. Berry. Thomaa
Cmwlurd, J C. Cuuipbell, E. Coupe, E. Cauley, Wui.
Clark, P Clark, I>. Crnniton, J. A. Cameron, F. W.
CVuaa, J, F. Caaey Bern. Dolan, John Douglas, Jos.
Dafia, J Daley, Thai. DaTldson, J. Doherty, J. M. Daly,
,1. Dmiglal. J. DarlH, II. Dolan, J. N. Roans, Ileron Flint,
J H. Froggert, F. Fisher, E. Flabar, H. Flint, Fred.
Oourhaiu, Johu Qreer, C. A. UriBlth, t. Oraph, C.
ilrimn, F. OrlcTe, Pat. Oautbam, Wm. Hutton, John
Hsrriron, Wm. Hogarth, Tbos. Head, C. H. Harris, A.
Hamilton, Wm. Horre. O. Heaolt, W, Hogarth, T Head,
Tlioa Hill, J. Ilelilwell, Hani Hauwn, T. Harvey, V.
nayitt,C. Hoblis O. Hiirvey, A. HaMon, W. L. Hutton,
Joe. Hopgoi-d. -Thoa. Hopgood, Jacob Johnston, J
Johioton, II. W. Juilge, D. B. King. Oeorgn Xhaler, A.
Ki* . - 'ok, Jas. Ijoonard, Henry Ijyuoh, Frank Latimer,
j. . . jwls, Samuel Ijaw, ^A. Ljrman,^J. M. Leonard, H.

Norrls, Wm. Nelson, Alf. Oilade, Chaa. Oilen, A. Oilev,
tl Owie, Jus. Pasiay, J. M. Puliford, Thoa. Pollard, W.
P Pamnis, Ueo. Purclval, J. Pasiey, J. Pickering, A. P.
Patenon, O T. Kichards. Win. Rutherford, Horbt.
Kolwrts, II. Rubhuion, J. Rutherford, Geo. Rill, Wm.
IbMlney, H F Roth, II. J. Rutherford, H. J. Roberta, L.
Beid, T Uollatid, F. Rek), S. A. Rice, J. Rulelford,
J. Htodgell, Dan SulliTan, Howard Shepnard, James
Snllivan, Charles Umlth, Frank Btoph, William Spiers,
William Sankiter, K Strait, C. Stewart, C. Staf-
ford, J. K. Strong, J Snider, H. Bheppard, R. Sulley,
I> SulliTan, R. Skinner, E. SImpaon, J. M. Spiers,
W. B Shaw, T. R Stralon. A. Tumwell. W. K. Thomas,
J Todd, W. Tremble, T. Thwaite, U. T. Taylor. Harry
Taylor, T. L VIning, A. Whitd, Johu Willlami, gam.
Wfllr. Johu Whltaker, O. A. Walker, A. A. White, J.
Wheeler, C. Wllaon, A. M. Wilson, Wm. Waugh. Oscar
White, (leo. Wlllla, A. R. Wade, W, 0. Work, Wm.
Wheeler, Ueo. Weaver,

Boultun'hHubiic,— iUUedatBirUe, Major Boulton ;
80 ueu, 5 omwn.

FmtNrn'a Smi'Tn — Ralaeu at ttu'ApfwUe. Major
John French ; 35 men.

DiiNNiH Hi'HVEYuB SCOUTS —Captain J. S. Dennis;
Mmen, SofHcert.

MiMMK M'X'NVAIN Sf'nUTh.— Raised at Qu'Appelle,
Captain (•. W. R. While; M men, 3 oRlcera.

Htkwakt'h RANdr.UH.- KaisMl at Calgary awl MoLeo<l.
Major J. Hteanrt; 154) men, 4 otllccn.

Ai.HKKTA MotNTKi) iNrANTBY.— Railed at Calgary.
Major I'aton; 50iotMt, 3 olticera

A luKly of »fty seouU raised In Calgary, allied with tha
Mounted Police, under Major Steele.

A ('oMi'ANvor iNPANTUY, Battleford. Captain Naih;
40 nieo, 3 uHloers.

A CuHl'ANyurUoMKOl'ARUM, Regina. Captain David
Scott; 40 men, 3 otHcera

A Company or HomkOuabd*, BIrtle. Captain JamM
II. HuihI ; 40 men, 3 olflcen.

A Company up Homk Uuabds, Calgary. M man, I
officer.

A Company or Homi OttARnn, Yorktown, AaslDi-
bola. Major ,1. C. Watsftn ; 60 men, 3 ofllcera.

A Company or HiimkCuahdh, Qu'Appelle. Captain
T, W. Jackson ; 40 men, 3 olBconi. ^

THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE.

Commissioner A. O. Irvine, In command.

" A" Division.— Supt. J. H. Mcllree, Inspector A. R
Macd'innell ; Sergt.-MaJor W. A. Douglas: Quarter-mas-
ter^., . Hariier; <loipttal Burgeon J. C. Holmea ;
Bern ■ • W. Piercy, I). Palersou, T. McOlnnU, M.
3) .1). ,.«; ■ Corporals H. H. Jonei, F, L, Mariott, W,
RItehi ; OonsUliles (). Adams, P. Ilertles, C. J. Bulger,
W. S. llethiine, W Carroll, A. Chartrand, W. Cowles, J.
Draycott. F ElMutt, .1. Furlws, W. Uriinmer, A. (low, F.
I' >o<lwln, J. P Hicks, J. C. Ilarstone, J. Ilalenhack, H.
0. T.'cffnan, V. U- -^ '-<ie, A. Mackenzie, A. Meneley, E.
H. : 'AgK.h < >I. Regan, J. R. Itoyoe, P. Rtuggin,
O. Ix. W. h' .mem, J. Saunders, W. Bannden, J. II.
flwift, i:. I;. T'lei- !r, J. Warren, J. W. F. Weeks, F. O.
Yerrese, P. O. hare,

"B" Division.— Commissioner A. 0. Irvine: Superin-
tendents R. B. Dcttne, P. R. Neaie ; Inipeoton F.
Norman, F. White, O. E. Sounders, F. Drayner ; SUflf
Burgeon A. Jukes; StaH Sergta. J. McNamara, O. R
Sallray, W. Simiaon, E. A. Braithwaite ; Sergeants B.
Belcher, J. A. McOlbbon, F. M Blight, C. 11. Connor, O.
B. Robbs, J. FylTe, M. Baker, W. Koutlcilge ; Corporals
O. Norrls, H. Walker, F. Dobhs, I). Talbot, W. Macleod,
L. Hooper. A. B. Craves, W. A. Jackson, Thos, Kemwter.
8. O. Mills; Constables W. O. Osprey, R. E. Allan, J. N.
llerthelot, J. l». Bryniner, O. Brodle, O. H. L. Bosaange,
M. Bloomtield, A. P. M. Brooke, A. R. Brooke, O. Bowes,
W. P. D. Bruumer, A. Baker, A. O. L. Blnl, Henry Beggs,
R. Black, H. Bnlley, J. Car.uthcrs, J. CiiBby, A. Ooulaon,
D. Clarke, II. N. Cnllendor, J. Cook, O. Cheke, T. Craig,
R. Clorksun, M. Dowse, J. W. Davis, H. T. Dalton, Jas.
Dounlas, .luB. Forrell, W. Field, P. W. Pnot, O. P. Ouem-
sey, W. (iilpln, A. S. Oauvin, T. W, Oofl, E. W. O. Gard-
iner, A. Halliday, A. Uouselov, 8. J. Ha'J, F. Ibrlea, O.
Henilerson, A. Henderson, W. Hart, E. G. O. Hopkins,
P. Higglns, U. Howard, Jno. Uiokey, R B. Jones, J.
Knowles, W. Koit, C. R Leamy, T. Lonergan, J. B. R

w. H7lilitcmiftrjr.° wwhnnsi sr.- aiA s ammi y, A. Wesmu ^
lie, O. Macdonald, W. Newton, J, a Nioholas, W. Nobl«
F. NIchoUs, T. Noale. L O. 8. Oabomc, T. W.O. O'Brieii.
J. Percival, W. D. Perkins, J. Ohaaaey. W. J. Pitcber,
Wm. Payne, A. C. Pickering, D. PoUook, H. N. A. Po-
cock, (I. W. Piyor, F. Perry, H. Powers, A. RqUnson, E.
Racey, E. Rohring. P. K. Rudd, F. RamnAn, A. W.
Scarlett, F. W. Bhamler, W. J. Sloan, A. Skinner, B.
Bheuheril, H. H. Smith, J. Stuart, O. Service, O. Sinclair,
M. F. P. St. John, a. Sinclair, H. Slater, R. Stanley, H.
Talbot, J. Thompson, M. Williams, C. Waller, J.* Wil-
liamson, S. W. Waller, I. Wailonuon, E. J. Zwicker.

"C." DiviKioK.— Sunerintondanl J. Cotton ; Ihspeo-
tor A. B. Perry ; Sergt. -Major E. Bradley ; BergeanU W.
II. Irwin, J. Breadon, H. P. Currier, F. Pltzpatriok, A.
White, W. C'Cuiinor, P. W. Splcer ; Corporals R Moore,
N. J. Hi>ll, A. E. llariwr, E. J. Hodder, A. M. Jarvis ;
Constables W. H. Aleiande.", H. Arcrell, E. J. Al|.ort,
Wm Banister, J. Brown, U. O. Blake, J. Boatty, J.
Brewster. T. A. Blake, T. Bccby, J. Clancy, W. N. Oox,
(;larke, W. Clarke, J. Connell, H. J. Dudsworth, L. P.
Dufuurcu. W. C. Diamond, B. Dolan, E. Donnelly, J. D.

Grema, O. Oordon, W. B. HIgflnbothaol, (X HUllMd,
U. Benlng, D. JoYal, N. KaathrV. P. Lea, B. / Li:iy. U
P. MoRae, W. If. llelder, M. Morrow, W. Morers, J.
Munhjp, B. Millar, J. MoCartlu, A. MoKsnsI*, W. MHI,
N. (firlsn, H. Otetaalage, P. Paollsr, O. Parker, A. O.
PhlUiu, 8. Plokard,A. Peasnell, A. Koalesu, W. W.
RoH, R Buohester, W. Bvan, W. Saehe, a W. Btiurt,
OTIioinaStlSd. Taylor. O. P. Ward. R Walsh, W. J,
Wood, oTWIIha. S. Yarwood : BUS SerieaoU O. A.
Kennedy, a Uonier, T. Asp<lan, J. h. Part, £ C. WUsoo.
"D" Dmsioif.— Buperlntendrats L. H. K. Crutiar, J.
Oagnon : Inspectors J. Howe, W. B. Morris, P. J. Disk-
ens, O. B. MoSatt; Bnveant-Maiors J. M. KUk, F. O.
Dann; 8taa-8srieanU A. B. MaoKay, B. Warden, J. W.
RolpblJ. A. Martin : Burgeon R lUtter; SergeanUT. H.
Lake, W. O. Smart, A. Kaenan, W. Brooks, J. Prlngls, A.
atewart, V. Baaler. O. Fraaer, O. Losoombe; Ooroorals
J. MoD. MeNeOl, W. E. DUmond, W. Nevin, O. ctiiMS,
W. P. McOonnell, H. J. A. Davidson, F. Fowler, W. An-
derson. D. L. Oowan, H. A. Edmonds, Johu (^lUlns, R
Ince, O. Leonals, O. LoMby, L. O'Keefe, C. Phillips, J.
Quigler, r. Roby, R HTRobertsan, T. H. Gllchrilt, R
Rntleilge, W. W Bmith, J. Tector, V. F. Warren, R R
Blalgh ; OonsUb'es O. Oaaaull, T. Ooohrane, A. Cole, O.
Dole, D. Davis, J. Dawson, J. O. Degear, A. Dorion, R
Dowsler, Q. Dufresne, A. B, Dunn, 0. Bales, J. Edwards,
T. F. Ellis, L. Fontaine, J. A. Fraaer, F. Garton, E. Oalmi,
J. Olbson, F. O. Oribble,0. Grogan, J. Guthrie, R. Guth-
rts, B D. Halbhaus, W. H. Hayne, H. Hetherington, H.
Hope, O. P. Arnold, R D. Baugh, R Carter, T. C. Craigle,
O. Orati L. Dery, H. Des Barres, J. H. Doyle, John
Hrnes, W. Jackson, F. Jarvis. W. Kerr, J. Kerr, O. L«-
vally, 0. Lavule. F, Lawton, H, Loacoml, W. Lunnln, M.
H. Meredith, T. Mllwaid, A. »" •'ontgumery, (1. Morrow,
A. Murray, W. Murray, T. alsK.Vhter, J. McDerniott. T.
MoKeown, A. Macdonald, D. A. E. Menuiiell, A. McMil-
lan, W. MoQuarrle, J. Patrick, G. Pemhrulgc, W. P.'rkln,
F. Doyle, A. Fleming, F. 0. Fleming, C. Uarwlt, S. F.
Gordon, J. Graham, II. B. Hammond, A. K. Heaff,. C. K.
Helmer. J. Herron, T. H. Iloyland, R W. JaniiesdH, W.
Jones, P. O. LeClaIr, E. UttleflelJ, Wm. Lynch, D. M.-*
Maopberaon, B A. Manners, C. Allen, T. Ashbaugb, H.
T. Ane, A. Bingham, R J. Browne, P. Burke, W. Perrin,
W. R. Potter, F. E. Prior, J. A. Reld, T. J. Redmoud, C.
Boss, D. Scott, W. Shaw, J. A. Simons, P. W. Simons, W.
J. Bpenoer, O. V. Stevenson, H. Storer, Wm. Btraton, D.
BuUIvan, W. 0. Bsrinton, A. Walaiin, C. II. Wells, T.
Wblte, W. WlUiams, J. Woodbouse, A. H. Woodman, O.
Worthlngton, J. Wright, K. F. Davles, P. Hawkins, A.
MlUer, u! Miles, A. Mounttln, W. O. Nunn, O. Oliver, O.
Pook, J. Bummerdeld, J. ReUUaek. J. J. Roberts, H. R
Sargent, F. A. Sure, W. Smith, H. H. BUntoB, J. Btreet,

A. Sullivan, E. W. Todd, E. Walta, J. H. Wllmot, 8. Ar-
mour, T. O. O. Bolea, O. A. Campbell, 0. 0. Colebrook, W.
Oookson, W. OunllSs, J. G. Donkin, L. W. Elliott, T. W.
H. Estwlok, G. F. A. Kcemer, J. Lalelle, J. W. Carroll,
R Hobfas, F. Leduo, J. A. McDonald, G. H. Rowley, R

B. Oudoh, E. Snell, O. St. Deals, H. J. Thompson, J. J.
Wood, O. Young, J. TelUcd.

"E" DITISIOH.— Suparlntendent W. M. Herchmer;
Inspectors W. D. Antrobus, J. B. Steele, T. Dowling, A.
H. Grlesback : Bergeant-Btajor T. Wallace ; ScrgeanU
J. H. Ward, W. Fury. O. R Orqmn, J. O. Oordan.V. B.
Wlld^ W. Parker ; V. B., R KidiiaU ; Oaaiter-naater
Sergeant R. Hamilton; Rospllal Sergeants H. T. Penny,
L. B. Qeli lo it t Corporals A. J. Cudup. O. Macleod, A. K.
0. MeDoniMUtW. H. T. Lown, R. V. Ooold. J. Rlebanla,
F. Watowrn. J. a Vwldslll OonsUhles H. AUmett, R

««. u. mil, K>. nuuu* u. c^. ouuvi o. ih. Efimmmt vf , ouciia

W. L. Blab, J. BaUsodloe, O. B. Boaiie, A. Clare, T. Craig,
J. W. Ohater. P. R. Belcher, F. H. Bradihaw, A. C
Davidson, A. Davtdaoo, A. R Dyra, O. A. Drebrenll, J.
Daoi^. r. Fane, W. H. rord. E. L. Olaasford, O. R Hall,
8. Retherinclpn, A B. Haynes, J. House, O P. Jones, J.
R JosephTH. W. 0. Jackson, J. InlesI, 8. M. Jarvis, P.
Kerr, U Knight. J. Kenny. W. Latimer, W. Lewis, F.
LlttleAeld, O. B. Luiawsiy. R W. Lloyd, W. Morgan, R
Morton, A Moody, M. T. MlUer, W. R McHlnn, D. Mc-
Rsa, J. A. Oamuon, J. Ohabot, P Oonlts, E. Cnllen, P.
J. Ourriu, J. A.Ms«danald, J. MoLeod. B. -4H«liarl. (X.-
R Ogle, 8. Perrival.R PerelvM, R. R Pnghe, O. PmUtf.
J. Potts, F. R. Richardson, W. J. Ritchie, J. B. Robin-
son, W. BonUedge, A. O. Bnshlon. A. H. Rumball, a
Raven, J. Boas, B. Shore, W. Sunderland, O. Shaw, O. P.
Shcppwrd, H. Bpenoer, W. M. Stratton, O. H. Toiar, O.
Thompson, A. Taylor, R R. Vennor, J. Walters, T. H.
Waring^. Wbipps, J. Wright. W. MawhMt, J. A. Pat-
terson, B. Bchulti, A. Tbooi, R 8. Unwin.