her. The right column was commanded by
Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, headed by 400 infantry, under Major
Brooke, of the 23d, and followed by 500 volunteers and militia,
being parts of Lieutenant-Colonels Dobbin's, M'Burney's, and
Fleming's regiments, and was intended to attack the batteries.

The left column of 500 militia was commanded by Brigadier-General
Davis, and comprised the commands of Lieutenant-Colonels Hopkins,
Churchhill and Crosby, and was intended to hold in check any
reinforcements from the enemy's camp; or both columns
(circumstances requiring it, which frequently happened) to
co-operate in the same object.

After carrying by storm, in the handsomest style, a strong block
house, in rear of the third battery, making its garrison
prisoners, destroying the three 24-pounders and their carriages
in the third battery, and blowing up the enemy's magazine, and
after co-operating with General Miller in taking the second
battery, the gallant leaders of the three divisions all fell
nearly at the same time; Colonel Gibson, at the second battery,
and General Davis and Lieutenant-Colonel Wood in an assault upon
the first.

Brigadier-General Davis, although a militia officer of little
experience, conducted on this occasion with all the coolness and
bravery of a veteran, and fell while advancing upon the enemy's
entrenchments. His loss as a citizen as well as a soldier, will
be severely felt in the patriotic county of Genesee. Colonel
Gibson fully sustained the high military reputation which he had
before so justly acquired. You know how exalted an opinion I have
always entertained of Lieutenant-Colonel Wood of the engineers.
His conduct on this day was what it uniformly has been, on every
similar occasion, an exhibition of military skill, acute judgment,
and heroic valour. Of the other regular officers, (p. 217)
Lieutenant-Colonel M'Donald and Major Brooke, senior in command,
will report to you in relation to their respective divisions.
Permit me, however, to say of these two officers, that, much as
was left to them by the fall of their distinguished leaders, they
were able to sustain their parts in the most admirable manner,
and they richly deserve the notice of the government.

Of the militia, I regret that the limits of a r