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Show 142 By 10 o'clock, Dame was on his way to Fort Clara, but Lee was requested to Btay behind to "Stirr up the Brethren to vigelence & urge the necessity of immediate action." ' Eventually, fifteen Washington men were enlisted for the expedition. The tiny Fort Clara settlement added three more to the list. All recruits were told to rendezvous on April 23, at Iron Springs, a watering hole on the California road ten miles west of Cedar City. On the following day, Lee and Dame rode to Harmony, where they assigned Bishop Covington, of Washington, to raise seven teams from Harmony and have them at the rendezvous. On the l8th Colonel Dame returned to his hometown of Parowan where he addressed the Saints both morning and afternoon. John D. Lee proved to be of invaluable assistance in getting the expedition onto the desert. Besides his recruiting efforts, he volunteered a._ wagon and team of his own besides purchasing two mules and two sets of harnesses for the use of the expedition. While Lee was enroute to Cedar City with the mules, he was met by an express from President Haight stating that the Cedar company was destitute of meat and wished him to sell them three beeves. •I D Lee cooperated with the request, but he was never compensated for them. The men began t o assemble at Iron Springs on the 23rd. Colonel Dame and the Parowan company arrived on the following day. In a l l , 6ixty-six men had been recruited, although six from Parowan would not arrive in time to go. The l i s t included fifteen men each from Cedar City, Beaver, Parowan, and Washington; and three men each from Harmony and Fort Clara. Dame's entire force was from the southern settlements. Next to William H. Dame in prominence was James H. Martineau, also of Parowan. He possessed a variety of s k i l l s and a b i l i t i e s which were of use to the expedition, and he was unflinchingly loyal to any task given him by the church or community. Martineau was Colonel Dame's adjutant in the Iron mili- |