The Origin and Services of the 3rd (Montreal)

army, accompanied the Battery from Montreal, and, on arriving at Port Louis, rodeon to inform Colonel Bagot that the Battery was on the way.It was just breakingday when the Battery landed, and it started over the same plank road over whichit had returned from Huntingdonin 1866.When it arrived at Huntington it was found that the greater part of the forcewhich had been stationed there had gone forward to the Trout River Lines,leaving two companies of the 6gth and the 64th Beauharnois Battalion at Huntingdon. The Fenians had crossed the Lines at Trout River the afternoon of theprevious day and were in camp near there.The Battery received ordersto remain at Huntingdon, andMajor Stevenson assumed command of the force left there,being the senior officer.That same morning theskirmish at Trout River tookplace, the 5oth HuntingdonBorderers, under Lieutenant-Colonel McEachran, being giventhe post of honor. The Feniansoffered scarcely any resistance,and the affair was over in a fewminutes, though there was everyprobability that the Fenianswould make another attempt inforce about the same point.In the afternoon MajorStevenson received orders toproceed with the Battery toTrout River. The corps remained there several days.While at this place the Battery received much attentionPORTRAIT OF PRINCK ARTHURfrom the farmers, one of them1 I KKSKNTKI> TO MR. WILLIAM ARTHUR, OF HUNTINGDON, BY THE BATTERY, IS7Ohaving quite won the hearts ofofficers and men by his kindness and courtesy. This was Mr. Arthur, and a fewmonths after the return of the Battery from service, the Battery sent a deputationback to Trout River to present Mr. Arthur with a handsomely framed portrait ofHis Royal Highness Prince Arthur, as a token of the Battery s appreciation of thefarmer s kindness.patrioticPrince Arthur kindly signed the portrait of himself at the request of theofficers of the Battery, and itis still a valued heirloom in the Arthur family.53