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The " Movable Detail ” was ordered to follow an hour later in the 
following order:— 
6 sleighs detachment, 8 men each. 
1 „ gun. 
1 „ limber, boxes, shafts, &c. 
4 „ detachment. 
1 „ gun. 
1 „ limber, boxes, &c. 
4 „ detachment. 
1 sleigh gun. 
1 „ limber, boxes, &c. 
4 „ detachment. 
1 „ men’s baggage. 
1 „ officers’ do. 
1 „ officers. 
In each of these parties there was a "head teamster ” or "captain 
of the teamsters ” appointed, who was to drive the leading team, and 
so regulate the pace ; and strict orders were given to the other team¬ 
sters, that no halt either for watering or feeding was to be made 
without the " head teamsters ” permission; and also that every sleigh 
was to keep the sleigh in front of it, and the one in rear of it, always 
within hail. 
This This order of march did not answer well, as the gun sleds were 
faulf^n? as heay y as those in the equipment detail, consequently the 
why. 7, n movable detail did not move any quicker than the equipment detail, 
and the men were thus longer exposed to the cold and later in arriving 
at their destination than was necessary. The object of the arrange¬ 
ment was of course to have the guns and a portion of the ammunition 
always with the larger body of troops. But the American difficulty 
was adjusted before the half-battery started, and there was conse- 
Change of quently little or no risk in sending it even close to the frontier. The 
march° f or( ^ er march was therefore changed, by authority from St John, and 
mait * for the last eight days of the march, all the gun, limber, wagon, and 
equipment sleds with three sleds detachments Royal Artillery, and 
three do. 63rd Regt. as escort, were sent on at least an hour, or an 
hour and a half before the larger body of men, which then followed at 
a much more rapid pace, thus saving the men much exposure. With 
this arrangement, both parties generally arrived together, the second 
party generally catching up the first, shortly before the end of the 
day's journey. 
In the detail of the party it will be observed that one man of the 
Royal Engineers accompanied the party. He was sent up in order to 
join his company then at Eredericton. 
Character Before attempting to describe the journey, a few words must be 
P^^ oads said on the roads of New Brunswick, and their character in winter. 
Brunswick. All the roads in this province are divided into great roads and bye 
roads. The former are those on which much regular traffic takes 
place, and they receive a greater amount of legislative aid than the 
bye roads. The great roads are kept in repair by the inhabitants of 
the various districts through which they pass, but in winter very little 
seems to be done to them. The road from St John to Little Balls, by 
which the troops marched, though the principal road in the province, 
was in a very bad state, and had many dangerous places in it, all of 
which seemed of old standing, and in one or two places only, had 
repairs been made. 
In winter when all the traffic is carried on by sleighs, the road is 
simply a track, the breadth of a sleigh, worn, and beaten hard in the 
snow. There is only a single track, so when two sleighs pass each 
