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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 245 ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN WASATCH COUNTY AND VICINITY. Wasatch County, Utah, which was somewhat ad-jacent to the Indian rendezvous in the DuChesne country had its share of Indian troubles during the Black Hawk war in 1866. The following from the writing of John Crook of Heber City : In the early spring of 1866, instructions came from military headquarters, Salt Lake City to pre-pare for Indian troubles, and to guard our stock and vicinity, and we were informed that officials would arrive to organize us and place us on a war footing. In the month of April, 1866, we began to build corrals for our dry- stock in Eoss Hollow, eight miles north, and also a large corral in Heber City for the cow- herd. On the 25th of May, 1866, Col. Robert T. Bur-ton and Drill Sergeant D. G. Eoss arrived, and or-ganized the militia in the valley, with John W. Witt as Major and Charles H. Wilkins as adjutant of company ( A) " cavalry. " Company ( D) was com-posed of Silver Grays, and these two companies formed the first Battalion. Companies B and C formed the second battal-ios, and was commasded by John Ha. rm1f. fm as major and John Crook as adjutant. All on the west side of the Provo Eiver prin-cipally Midway formed a separate command, a bat-talion, with Sidney H. Epperson as major and David Van Wagonen as adjutant, this company con-sisted of both cavalry and infantry. |