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Show 200 INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS mustered a company of cavalry under Captain Big-ler for ninety days service; and as late as October Captain Eobert W. GDavis and company from Kays-ville started for the Sevier. About the end of July Major- General Burton organized another company of seventy- five officers and men in Salt Lake Coun-ty and hurried them southward under command of Major Andrew Burt, with William L. N. Allen as captain. These were Colonel John Sharp ' s regiment and were among the last to return home, reaching Salt Lake City early in November. Utah County sent its second company of cavalry in June under Captain Joseph Cluff of Provo, and two more com-panies in August under Captain Alva Green of American Fork and Caleb W. Haws of Provo. Of the various companies and commanders do-ing duty in their own counties it is perhaps not nec-essary to speak in detail, though they aquitted them-selves with much credit. As far south as Washing-ton County where, under instructions of Brigadier- General Erastus Snow, a company under Captain James Andrus had taken the field and had lost in one expedition private Eliajh Everett Jr., slain by the savages ; and as far north as Cache County there were the same alert and unceasing watchfulness against hostile inroads or outbreaks, and at one time during the year as many as twenty five hundred men were under arms. The number killed during the season's campaign was of whites about twenty and of Indians between forty and fifty. The set-tlers stock herds were reduced nearly two thousand, and rarely were any of the animals recovered. |