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Show 74 Utes. At almost the same moment that Head was praising the Mormons, General William T. Sherman was threatening Brigham Young with another invasion of Utah to suppress the Mormons for alleged crimes against persons not of their faith.5 In spite of the reception they accorded Superintendent Head, Mormon hostility to the federal government remained. As the war intensified, the local forces began to implore the federal officials for help. Even the very uncooperative forces at Fort Douglas could not ignore the pleas of the embattled Mormons. Colonel Carroll H. Potter telegraphed to Fort Leavenworth for instructions from General Pope. The reply from the Acting Assistant Adjutant General is short and direct: "General Pope telegraphs that the Superintendent of Indian Affairs will have to depend for the present on the militia to compel the Indians to behave at Selina." (Signed by Samuel E. Mackey, by command of Major General Dodge.) Superintendent Head wrote an extremely long and detailed letter to D. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs on June 21, 1866, in which he reviewed his efforts at trying to bring peace. He sent R. K. James to try to negotiate with Black Hawk. He failed, because 5Robert J. Dwyer, The Gentile Comes to Utah, (Salt Lake City: Western Epics Press, 1971), p. 48. ^Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1866, p. 130. |
