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weeks previous to the battle of St. Eustache. Four days before said battle I was ordered with another volunteer to proceed during the night to within a mile of said village, to arrest and bring into camp a person named Mr. M. Seers. As I considered it a somewhat dangerous duty and the arms with which we were served not very suit- able for the purpoee, I asked for pistols with which my captain furnîshed me, accompanied with most encrgetic and earnest caution not use them if it could possibly be avoided.
On the day of the battle our company was ordered to take the direct and most dangerous road to attain St. Eustache, while the main body took a différent and longer route, and to hait at Seers on the highland near the river bank opposite the said village of St. Eustache, and there to await further orders. In approaching said position we pa^sed through a wood in which a party of the Insur- gents were concealed. The enemy’s scouts falling back as we advanced, carried full information of the smalness of our numbers to their leaders, who supposed we were ail they had to contend with. Their plan was to attack us in front from the village, while the concealed party would take us in rear, when they would hâve a good prospect of exterminating the whole party. Their plans were soon frustrated by the advent of the main body, who immediately commenced firing on the party crossing the ice or the river to attack us. It sent them to the right-about and they gave us no further trouble. Our friends in the woods hearing that something more than
