About six o’clock A.M.
It was here that Lieut. Col. Bailey was wounded , while gallantly leading the advance on this side of the town . Here forty-five of the enemy were taken prisoners , among them Capt. King , who was wounded , -LRB- leg since amputated , -RRB- Lieut. McDonald , Royal Navy , and Commander of the steamer `` Robb , '' and Lieut. Nemo , Royal Artillery . O'Neill then collected his men , and posted Lieut. Col. Grace , with one hundred men , on the outskirts of the town , guarding the road leading to Chippewa , while with the remainder of the command he proceeded to the old Fort . About six o'clock A.M. , he sent word to Capt. Hynes and his friends at Buffalo that the enemy could surround him before morning with five thousand men , fully provided with artillery , and that his little command , which had by this time considerably decreased , could not hold out long , but that if a movement was going on elsewhere , he was perfectly willing to make the Old Fort a slaughter pen , which he knew it would be the next day if he remained . FOR HE WOULD NEVER HAVE SURRENDERED . Many of the men had not a mouthful to eat since Friday morning , and none of them had eaten anything since the night before , and all after marching forty miles and fighting two battles , though the last could only properly be called a skirmish . They were completely worn out with hunger and fatigue .