"ANDREW MCDOWELL,
"Captain of the United States Light Artillery.
"Acceded to and signed,
"P. G. BOERSTLER,
"Lieut.-Col. commanding detachment United States Army.
"P. V. DE HAREN,
"Major Canadian Regiment."
—Auchinleck's History of the War, p. 175.
NOTE 39, [page 65].
The golden epaulettes.
These were the insignia of a captain's rank in those days, and as Major De Haren is made to predict, Lieutenant Fitzgibbon won his company by the exploit of Beaver Dam.