1 TO THE PRESENT TIME. 65:
2 into ‘two brigades; the one under Brigadier
3 Macdowal, C. B., and the other under Brigadier
4 Stedman. The Ist Division as it stood, two
5 brigades: her Majesty’s 53rd and 30th Native
6 Infantry, under Brigadier Wilson, of the latter
7 corps; the 36th Native Infantry, and Nusseree
8 Battalion, under Brigadier Godby; and the
9 Shekawattee Brigade, under Major Forster.
10 The Sirmoor Battalion I attached to Brigadier
11 Wheeler’s Brigade of the Ist Division, the 42nd
12 Native Infantry having been left at Head
13 Quarters.
14 “ At daylight on the 28th my order of advance
15 was, the cavalry in front, in contiguous columns
16 of squadrons of regiments; two troops of horse
17 artillery in the interval of brigades; the infan-
18 try in contiguous columns of brigades at inter-
19 vals of deploying distance; artillery in the
20 intervals, followed by two eight-inch howitzers
21 on travelling carriages, brought into the field
22 from the fort of Loodianah by the indefatigable
23 exertions of Lieutenant-Colonel Lane, horse ar-
24 tillery; Brigadier Godby’s Brigade, which I
25 had marched out from Loodianah the previous
26 evening, on the right, the Shekawattee Infantry
27 on the left, the 4th Irregular Cavalry and the
28 Shekawattee Cavalry considerably to the right
29 for the purpose of sweeping the banks of the
30 wet nullah on my right, and preventing any
31 F