Order of Battle
CANADIANS (1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Napier's Corps) Lt. Col. Booker, commanding officer sans brigade staff
- 2nd Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Toronto "Queen's Own Rifles" (Major Gilmore)
- 13th Battalion Volunteer Militia of Hamilton (Booker remaining in command, Major Skinner, 2nd-in-command, commanding right wing at Ridgeway)
- York Rifles Company, Volunteer Militia of Haldimand County (Captain Davis) attached to QOR
- Caledonia Company, Volunteer Militia of Haldimand County (Captain Jackson) attached 13th Battalion
Total strength: 841 officers and men (plus several dozen armed volunteer civilians, county sheriffs and magistrates, revenue officers and two Frontier Constabulary officers and two chaplains, Presbyterian David Inglis and Methodist Nathaniel Burwash, first chaplains in history to accompany Canadian troops onto a field of battle.
FENIANS (Irish Republican Army - IRA) Brigadier General O'Neill, commanding officer (vice Brig. Gen. Lynch, absent); Colonel George Owen Starr, second-in-command; Major John C. Canty (Fort Erie, C.W.), chief of staff/intelligence; Lieutenant Rudolph Fitzpatrick, aid-de-camp.
- 7th Buffalo “Irish Army of Liberation” (Col. John Hoy )
- 13th Tennessee Regiment of Nashville (commanded by Captain Lawrence Shields, in place of O'Neill acting brigade commander)reinforced by 200 men from Memphis (Captain Michael Conlon) (total 315 men)
- 17th Kentucky Regiment of Louisville (Col. Owen Starr) plus *2 companies attached from Terre Haute, Indiana, (Captain Hugh Haggerty and Color Sergeant Michael Cochrane)
- 18th Ohio Regiment of "Cleveland Rangers" (Capt. Buckley)
- 19th Ohio Regiment of Cincinnati “Irish Republic Volunteers” (Lt. Col. John Grace)
- New Orleans company 'Louisiana Tigers', (Capt. J. W. Dempsey)
- A small unidentified troop of mounted scouts believed to be from Buffalo of unknown strength riding horses seized on the Canadian side,
Total strength upon landing at Fort Erie June 1, 1866, apx. 1,000-1,350; total strength at Battle of Ridgeway June 2, 1866, apx. 700-800 men.
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