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Show 345 26. Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4 : 3 6 l . Hosea Stout a l s o mentioned in his diary t h a t he attended "Ward meeting" on the evening of 21 March 1858, where the subject of volunteers for the desert was taken up. Stout w r i t e s : "The brethren seemed some what l o t h t o volunteer for which reason I gave my name to go in the f i r s t Company although I did not come in t h a t class [those who had never been driven from t h e i r homes} who were called upon." (Hosea Stout, On tbe Mormon F r o n t i e r : The Diary of Hosea Stout, 2 v o l s . , ed. Juanita Brooks [Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1964/, 2:655.) Also see Stenhouse Rocky Mountain S a i n t s , p. 394 for negative responses. 27. Historical Department Journal, 22 March I858. 28. Manuscript History, 5 April I858, p. 310. 29. Young, A S e r i e s of I n s t r u c t i o n s and Remarks, pp. 17-18. 30. This c i r c u l a r i s the already quoted A S e r i e s of I n s t r u c t i o n s and Remarks. 31. Brigham Young t o John D. Lee, 24 March I858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 32. Other l e t t e r s went out t o Joseph Home, Heberville (the cotton farm); Bishop John L. Butler, Spanish Fork; Bishop Aaron Johnson, Springville; Bishop Charles B. Hancock, Payson; Bishop Holman, Santaquin; Bishop Jacob Bigler, Nephi; Bishop Tarleton Lewis, Parowan; President Isaac C. Haight, Cedar City; Philo T. Farnsworth, Beaver. 33. Young, A Series of I n s t r u c t i o n s and Remarks, pp. 18-19. 34. I b i d . , p. 16. I t a l i c s mine. 35. I b i d . , p. 17. I t a l i c s mine. 36. Deseret News, 24 March 1858, p. 20. The Sebastopol a l l e g o r y continued in public usage for a time. The property of the emigrants massacred a t Mountain Meadows was r e f e r r e d to in 1859 as the "property taken a t the siege of Sevastopol." (Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:158..) |