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Show MEXICAN Govervolunteers. the organization of thereafter to render the southwest from armies, issuing from the Alleghenies, passed These new countries had been reconnoitred and adTerritory and Tennessee. year by year of With hardy frames, confirmed health, and recruited mired. had been their peace, these soldiers returned to occupy the choice spots which From the campaigns of war grew settlements bivouac and camping grounds. Another war came, . of peace, and populous states displaced the wilderness ; armies penetrated Michigan, upper Illinois and into generation The great Mississippi, crossed at many points, ceased to be 4 Mississippi. Five great states steamboat appeared, plowing its yellow flow. the and barrier, with another western bank. And now again have come and 2,000,000 of people emblazon itswar. Your little armies have scaled the another generation and another eternal barriers of the mother mountain of New the World and buried for @ time in the mazes of its manifold peaks and ridges, have debouched at many Passing round by the great points upon the briny beach of the Pacific. them aid. oceans, a military marine simultaneously strikes the shore and lends and its Thus is the wilderness conquerers disciplined. reconnoitred in war, its geography illustrated Your soldiers, resting for a time at home, will forth again, and wielding the weapons of husbandry, sally give to you new roads on the newthat will nurture commerce and a sisterhood of maritime states found ocean.’’ Canby; Colonel by made 292 Governor Gilpin in his response to the request 0 the organization of two volunteer companies 14, 1861, reported 101, Company B, Captain Samue) infantry — Company A, Captain J. P. Slough, to report for muster into the serve” August F. Tappan, 101, which had been ordered of the United States at Fort Garland. Gilpin states that ‘‘theof election JU the adminis majority in favor concluded exhibits an overwhelming popular It also reveals a strong malignant element essential to be controlled. tration. The dependence exclusively of this industrial population upon supplies if ported from the states over a line of communication of 800 miles, liable to be seorjsn "S68 oY} Fo +p. C ‘SS uruelusg J) 9UlILANG pre ‘layVg He WeITIIM books. dicted the founding of a great city where Kansas City now stands. In an adMisdress, speaking of the future of the great west, delivered in Cole county, little ‘‘During the Revolution, souri, in 1847, among other things he said: over Kentucky, the Northwest “qd appointed him governor of Colorado, in which position he He was a great student and wrote several valuable 1863. ‘S06. Kentucky, along with General James H. Lane of Kansas and Cassius M. Clay of each night. Lincoln he helped guard the White House, sleeping in that edificeserved two years, 1861- ‘oarT After the war credit. major of the regiment and acquitted himself with great to raise a regiment was over, he was asked by Governor Edwards of Missouri and the command was of volunteers to guard the Santa Fé trail; this was done With this command known as Gilpin’s Battalion, Missouri mounted volunteers. descended the Canadian he crossed the Raton mountains, March 10, 1848, battles with the many through the Apache and Comanche country, fought was declared with Mexico. Kiowas and was mustered out of service after peace three thousand miles. His command during its period of service marched over county, Missouri, Tt is said that Gilpin was the only man, in 1860, in Jackson President Lincoln, of on At the inaugurati who voted for Abraham Lincoln. ‘loyord was he was elected 8 Stanton PHT Fort Doniphan; “688T of Lynde, by Colonel A. W. PABA Missouri volunteers, commanded og after the surrender “Vv Immediately ‘uuep Confederate domination.?” uUuBeyzeUu0Lr of Colorado, asking his aid in the furnishing of nor Gilpin, intensely loyal, immediately began companies of volunteers, which were destined ereat service in the saving of New Mexico and HISTORY "M NEW FOGL OF ] L FACTS -UINLT) LEADING ‘F6S] 368 Nees iE |