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Show CHAPTER XVI: ABANDONMENT 1. tortineau, "History of Mission," p. 50. Entry for 15 June 1858. 2. Ibid., pp. 50-51. Entry for 17 June I858. 3. It is not recorded when Sirrine and Carter left Meadow Valley, but it was apparently a few days after Dame departed for Parowan. 4. Jesse N. Smith, Journal, 22 June I858. L.D.S. Archives. This journal was published under the title, Journal of Jesse N. Smith, ed. Oliver R. Smith (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press for Jesse N. Smith Family Association, 1970). Entries for June 1858 are mistakenly printed as "toy," however. 5. It is possible that Smith used the term "Adams' Camp" because he was acquainted with Adams, who was also from Parowan. Hopkins was from Cedar City. 6. Brigham Young to Lewis Brunson and Philo T. Farnsworth, 21 June I858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 7. Philo T. Farnsworth to Brigham Young, 12 July 1858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 8. Lewis Brunson to Brigham Young, 14 July I858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 9. Jesse N. Smith, Journal, 10 July 1858. 10. Farnsworth to Young, 12 July 1858. This comparison may not have been entirely fair, as Parowan had other men enlisted who could not go because either they or their animals were in Salt Lake City helping with the exodus at the time. Parowan had also been called upon to aid Joseph Home's cotton mission on the Rio Virgin, with the removal of the Saints from San Bernardino, and for Lyman's expedition to the Mojave in January. The New York Herald of 31 toy 1858 claimed, "The people of the southern settlements [of Uta.^ are almost in 377 |
