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Date 21 mai 1885
Comté Westmorland
Lieu Sackville
Journal Chignecto Post
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
Riel Rebellion - In response to the country's call for volunteers to go to the West in putting down the rebellion, a number of men offered their services to Capt. HARPER of No. 6 Company. The quota requiring only ten men including the captain, the following first on the ground were accepted and enrolled. viz. Sgt. Major John J. CROSSMAN, privates, Edward WOOD, Tweedy McGLASHING, Boyd GOODEN, Milligan HASTINGS, Strang AMOS, Howard MATHESON, Singleton GRANT and Clayton McGLASHING, who upon receiving orders to advance, took their departure Monday morn. to Sussex.