The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-06-07
THE TEyIAI INVASION NEgAIAIA,
An Authentic Account of the
b. Late Battles.

tnc EliIhUcF, WHO was personally enGaHeu
In two ot the recent battles In Canada, fur
nishes the following authentic statement Of
what occurred under his own observation.
The B,aatfr says he has HAD bctter oppof-
tunites OF Knowing the history OF the
events Of the last week than any other cor
respondent that has yet written from Cam
ada, aud regards his statements as entirely
reliable. They will be read with Interest !
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TO the Editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
take pleasure IN sending Won q correct
statement of the two battles that your hum
BILE servant was at In Canada, which came
off ON June 2. We LEFT Buffalo AT three
O'Clock A. NJ, June !, aud took possession
OF Fort Erie without one shot being fired.
We then took possession of Waterloo two
miles from there. The people left every
thing In their stores. and started for Chip
pewa. We remained there until dark. when
we struck camp for Chippewa, burning
bridges and destroying telegraph wires as
we went. We marched about ten miles on
that road, and started west to Ridgeway. a
town containing about three hundred good
British subjects. We got there about ten
o'clock on the morning of the ID, orat least
two miles this side Of town. when we threw
out our skirmishers. At half-past ten
O'Clock the battle commenced. lsH
! The enemy had one regiment Of regulars.
called the Queens Own, about LOCO strong,
and 1900 volunteers, in all $500 men. Our
! force amounted In all TO 750 men. When the
battle commenced we were about four hum
Clred yards apart Our breatsworks were
the fences aud they had breastworks We
| held our position for one hour, aud then
made a feint to draw them out of their
works, and fell back about four hundred
| yards they then LETT their breastwOrks
/ and we formed our line of battle in n large
orchard. with fence about five hundred
yards in length. We only fired two rounds,
when the order TO fix bayonets was given.
| We were then ordered TO charge, which we
| did, with one of those terrific yells which
all Americans are acquainted with but
JohRny Bun is not; then the regulars gave
way the volunteers following them. and
such scene battles all description. They
threw away guns, knapsacks, cartridge
boxes, hats, coats and even the band threw
away all their Instruments. We run them
about four miles, but they were better run
ners than we were, on account of not lIav-
| ing TO march all day and night. I,H
We killed about iifty. The wounded, |
think, were about one hundred. Our loss
was three killed and sixteen wounded.
| Among them is young Scully, from our
| city and braver or better soldier never
was killed in battle. Cincinnati Irshmen
can be proud OF him, and he ought to be an
example for them; for il there was ever a
man who died Drawer than him. l do not
know him. Also, Thomas Rafferty,. Poor
1 fellow The last words he said were to
give his Bible to Nicholas Russell. John
| Lynch is severely wounded In the leg.
do not think how'll live. r-.E 4Iu iiHHl
We then destroyed the telegraph wires
| on the Grand Trunk Railroad. We then
got word from Erie that tifty of ourmen
We're to be hung that EVENING" r1diJpoiif
| We had taken about one hundred prison.
ers. Among them w;Is one Colonel, one
Lieutenant Colonel, and one Captain--the
| three last named we brought with us; the
Others we paroled, and then started to Fort
Erie ON a doubleaquiek, and reached that
place at half-past four the same evening,
marching some twelve miles In three and a
half hours. There were about sixty of their
regulars there, with gunboat In front of
| the town. We sent out our pickets. and
found the regulars breaking for the gun
! boat. We started on a double-qIIiek, and
before the boat could reach the shore we
commenced firing on her, and Inadesher 20
out in the stream out of reach of our guns.
| The officers and sergeantS, to the number of
twenty five, got into II house, barricaded
the doors, aud commenced firing on our
men i'm front of the house. h5gIGdY -H1yoIl
We then broke down the doors, and COM
menced firing into the house from thestreet.
| We found that it would take too much am
Inunition in that way. Sow got torch
To burn the house, and that brought the
Johnnies down, and they gave themselves
,lup us prisoners of war. We got forty
Iprisoners in the house, among them several
officers, as they were the first to run in the
Ihouse. uiH I.iim LiE OF --1I0H uf l4al
| We had another complete uictory for the
Fenians on the same day, but on u smaller
Il scale. We killed ten and NOundpd ahnut