From the book "The New Brunswick Militia Commissioned
Officers List 1787-1867" by David R. Facey-Crowther.
Sponsored by the NBGS and transcribed with permission of the
NBGS. (Please note this is only a partial transcription which I
have had for a couple years. The book is available from the NBGS
for $10. The address is NBGS PO Box 3235 Station B, Fredericton,
NB Canada E3A 5G9. Converted to html by Heather Waddingham.)
Page 17 "The Third Battalion Charlotte Co., Militia"
The Unit was formed in 1822 with a sea fencible company
eventually attached. It was of Batallion strength in 1867 with
its headquarters at Deer Island. The uniform in 1867 consisted of
a scarlet tunic with yellow facings and navy blue trousers.
Officer Appointments:
Brown, James
Gentleman
Ensign 14 June 1826 - 3 January 1831
Captain 3 January 1831 - 27 June 1846
Major 27 June 1846 - 1860
Lieutenant-Colonel 1860-1867
In 1864 the militia on the Island:
Lt. Col. - James Brown
Capts - B. Fitzgerald; John McIntosh; C.E.O. Hatheway; Joseph
Patch; John
Leeman
Lts - John Chaffey; Warren Worster; John Farmer; Adjutant Henry
Conley; Owen
Parker; James Leonard; Charles Savage
Ensigns - William Cheney; Porter Dexter; William Harvey; John
Leonard; Henry
Leeman; Luke Byron; W. D. Hart; Simon Leonard
Quartermaster - John Kay
Surgeon - Charles Gun
By 1866 the militia was disorganized. However the Fenian
"invasion"
occurred that year. The Fenian Brotherhood was a secret
revolutionary
society founded in America in 1858 to establish a republican
government in
Ireland. A force of several hundred armed men were sent to
Eastport in
April 1866 for the purpose of taking Campobello. The expedition
failed and
was later called by the Fenians "The Campobello
Fiasco." They did seize the
British flag at Indian Island from the Customs officer and burned
four
warehouses there. The NB government sent a large force to the
border and
the Fenians dispersed. This incident helped the cause of Canadian
confereration.
The Civil War in America played no significant role in the
Island. A few
"skeedaddlers" arrived at Campobello, so-called
neutrals living on the
American side but they were not looked on with favor by the
islanders and
soon left.
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