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service, in command of the volunteer corps named, on the Red River Expedition:-- FIRST (ONTARIO) RIFLES. Lieut.-Col. Samuel P. Jarvis, commanding officer; Major Griffiths Wainwright. Captains--Thomas Scott, Thomas Macklem, William M. Herchmer, William Smith. Alex. R. Macdonald. Daniel H. McMillan and Henry Cook. Lieutenants--Donald A. Macdonald, David M. Walker, William N. Kennedy, Andrew McBride, William J. McMurty, Samuel B. Harman and James Benson. Ensigns--A. J. Z. Peebles, Stewart Mulvey, Josiah J. Bell, Samuel Hamilton, John Biggar, William H. Nash and Hugh John Macdonald. Paymaster--Capt. J. F. B. Morrice. Adjutant--Capt. Win. J. B. Parsons. Quartermaster--Edward Armstrong. Surgeon--Alfred Codd, M.D. SECOND (QUEBEC) RIFLES. Lieut.-Col. Louis Adolphe Casault, commanding officer; Major Acheson G. Irvine. Captains--Z. C. A. L. de Bellefeuille, Allan Macdonald, Jacques Labranche, Samuel Macdonald, Jean Baptiste Amyot, John Fraser, Wm. J. Barrett. Lieutenants--J. W. Vaughan, John P. Fletcher, Edward T. H. F. Patterson. Oscar Prevost. Maurice E. B. Duchesnay, Henri Bouthillier, Leonidas de Salaberry. Ensigns--Ed. S. Bernard, John Allan, George Simard, Gabriel L. Des Georges, Alphonse de M. H. D'Eschambault, William W. Ross, Alphonse Tetu. Paymaster--Lieut. Thos. Howard. Adjutant--Capt. F. D. Gagnier. Quartermaster--F. Villiers. The following officers were appointed to positions on the Brigade Staff in connection with the expedition:-- Assistant Brigade Major--Major James F. McLeod. Assistant Control Officer--Capt. A. Peebles. Orderly Officer on Staff of Commanding Officer--Lieut. Frederick C. Denison. The total strength of the expeditionary force amounted to about 1,200, which was composed of about 350 officers and men of H. M. 60th Royal Rifles, detachments of Royal Artillery and Engineers, the First and Second Rifles above mentioned, and a contingent of Canadian voyageurs. The whole expedition was in command of that gallant soldier Colonel Garnet S. Wolseley (who afterwards won honor and fame in foreign campaigns, and became a Field Marshal of the British Army). The troops left Toronto in May on their long trip to Fort Carry, going by steamboat to Prince Arthur's Landing (now
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