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Show 8 President Young and other Church leaders, with their companies about the ·middle of of emigrants arrived at Council Bluffs, .Iowa onward movement that immediate ·was planning June, 1846. The leader locate SUmmer---espeeially an-exploring party to go ahead and.perhaps circum that se.em It settlement. might. future- object1.ve place for '. he conspired against h to prevent this action, although the that seems It it. for seemed to ha excellently good. reason furnish troops Mormons had- suggested, perhaps requested,that they a"id in their formthe Mexican War then in progress as a means of that they westward migration, although it. seems- their' hope: was· the ;estward mi ·ht. be given the work of. const.ruction of. f.orts along a time. 'for route--a ·plan 'whi-ch the.' Governmen·t·· was considering and the The building of ·the·line of forts ddid not materialize; stances Government call for volunteers from the Mormon service. Captain James Allen was ordered to He arrived· at Mt. Pisgah about June 26, chose to make a camps for military present ·the requisition. and issued his "Circular to :.t,he 1846; call for four or' the Mormons"; embodying compankea, perhap-s about· 500·' young -and President, Youngi' and other leaders· of ·the end- five able-bodied· men.-:-· . . . .. then at GOuncil iiuffs, or vicinit)"; -grant.a, 85 given' ab>w, were that place for his answend came to on sent and tOe Captain as to that place June 30th. tho -Battalion Four of the f1ve compani.es. of infantry- to comprise few a -'I!ift-hthe days later. * were asssmllle-d July.1J-14, and UD the. Missouri,. all arriving at They marched down the east side of had been so much Fort Leavenworth August 1, 1846.· Pernaps., since we·· and. educat.Lcn. might culture., said about the Mormon&' lack. of. who could not sign note· that·a Leavnworth tbre'wer no Mormons· .. their same about the papers---among·the fissouri voteers·there At Leavenworth, time, only' about one-Ln three- couldehis. advance own the Battalion boys were'paid. their money·for'"clothing·in amount of for six months---$42·.00 each. Much" of thi.s sizable the their or assistance "folks", Ctash they sent back for the lands. sent to foreign and missionaries then being . ready <khurch, sort ot man;· was. w.ell-lik by, the "bors"; ,himself: would be anti he promised them that no other: ofricerf,..the.n The- kindly. Captain was chosen for them ol)tside" their.' own' ranks. but ordered the Battalion for at Capt. kllen, a .jovial . . Leavenworth; taken seriously ill ward on its westward march August 12th. their deep regret. He died August 23rd, to and 12th; and The battalion arrived at santa Fe October 9th Grande Rio the onr'fl"st.h. General resumed their march down had V to carry out an order who man same' Alexander W·. Doniphan---the had at Far \iest, Missouri' t.o" shoot Joseph 3mith"'at sunrise,and their persecu otherwise befriended the Latter-day Saints during of the Mor arrival the on of 100 guns tions---ordered a salute \4. Price, since noticeable Sterling.' This was particularlY" mona, Missouri with arrived Missouri histor,y, of whom' we· may also read in such no accorded recognition, was soldiers a few later; and perhaps were days to his discomfiture. dubbed the Mormon Doniphan's "Goddammies", "measure the society of Sa.nta Fe, did not Fe 3anta Fr however. by boys, they up" to as Arkansas River an4\t about the place where the Battalion. le.ft. the -sent detachmentsSof :i.nva1ided soldiers were men were about of 55 another group to Pueblo for the winter; and down the Rio Grande sent to join them from a place about 100 miles for the Cimarron, a |
