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Show -2- u,xioan ton. Stayed there a tew day1, and tarted on our oh a 11 tor C&litorni&, all thia time ~il'lg to oarey 0 1;lt' mu1latt1 ·and clothing and · equipa • on 1hort rations and without water ,ometilma tor two or three d&ys at a time, and. not ·ha.vi ng en ought to eat arzy ot the ti r:e , glad to get nwhi&t to r t on tm coal and · ea.t aa we robed a.long. I have mo~ tl:an on• piolmd up th, grai ot oorn ·that the otfioera hor • &bbbered out, and ea.ten thea;i and could not get enough to aat1aty my appetite . So q traveled in th11 way until om, got through, but the lut tew ~· • had o _t nothing to eat . But we got t ou.gh all all ve and that waa &11. We were not onl:, ,tarved, but we wre lao1t· naked. We arrived oil ti. Pao1tio ij t in Jan. , 184:'1 • I will here eay that & 11 company ot the b& ttalion ,topped near Santa ~, some being liok and not able to go lhr gh. the Dootor decided.. lfhen we arrive.d on the oout we wre quart.red to San Diego awh.11-, then• •nt to Ban Louie lfiedon and held ouraelved in readineas to tight ti. 8 inarda i but tm1 did not move thl pluok to attaok us. So • ,tayed on the ... coast until our yeu waa up, whioh waa in July. lt:J47. ~ wre qWU'ted at San Die.go and &O!i• at Los .Angel.ea . I was with a emall oompany etationed ,at the ~ Louie M11don undor the command of Lioutant Barras . At the tilte wre we to be diao d y,e all cOX?m to Lo. Angel•• and reoebed av d.1aoharge. After w wre d1 charged, Colonel Stenen1on (Stephen on wilhed a oompany ot one hundred of u1 to enli t a in tor six or eight montha , tor tt. eatety ot th• . . ooun , as pea had not ~t boen deola.re4. So I with xdnetJ nine more. enliated again under Captain Dav11 • one ot the Cap in1 of the Mormon Ba:ttali n. We enliated about the t1r1t of August, 1847, and in a tew ~a • marchttd te Sen Diego., After w got to San Diego, I and marflh to S&n Louia J41aa1on un r ti. oolllll&Xld of Lieute t Buras to hold that tort t.rom the Spain&rd • We 1tay 4 there until the time the di,oharge , and. we ohed to San Diego and •re hono ab d.i1oharged ,rhioh waa in ril, 1846, ha ing "". 4 in the Anfr3 ot the Uni te4 State, tDII one year and nine mont , in 1IDIII what wa.a oall.ec! the Mormon Battalion. |
