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Show Consequently it was not in all respects the original company, as organized in April, that entered Salt Lake Valley on the 24th of July-yet they were all Pioneers de facto, and as such their names are preserved in this record. As much may be said of the general emigration of 1847-those companies that came immediately after the original company and helped to found the pioneer city from which radiated the genius and went forth the energy that built up the State. The entire emigration of 1847 numbered about two thousand souls. All these were virtually Pioneers. Special mention must be made of the part played by the Mormon Battalion in the settlement of Utah. The call for the Battalion to take part in the war against Mexico came in the summer of 1846, just as the first trains of the migrating Mormons reached the Missouri River. It was this call, cheerfully responded to by more than five hundred able-bodied men, the pick and flower of the camp, that delayed the departure of the Pioneers until the following spring. The Battalion, 549 strong, was equipped at Fort Leavenworth, and then marched in the trail of General Kearney to Santa Fe. The death, at Leavenworth, of Captain James Allen, the recruiting officer, who was much beloved by the Battalion, caused the command of it to devolve upon Lieutenant A. J. Smith, who was succeeded at Santa Fe by Colonel Philip St. George Cooke. It was he who led the Battalion-barring those members who were disabled by the long and arduous march from the Missouri, and who were now placed in charge of Captain James Brown and ordered to Pueblo-on their toilsome and heroic march across the deserts and mountains of New Mexico into Southern California. Said Colonel Cooke of this achievement: ** History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry." Most of the women of the Battalion had been sent with Captain Brown's detachment to Pueblo; but four of the heroines accompanied their husbands throughout that extraordinary march. The term of one year for which the Battalion had enlisted, expired July 16, 1847. On that day they were honorably discharged at Los Angeles. Eighty-one of them, at the urgent solicitation of Governor Mason, immediately reenlisted and were ordered back to garrison San Diego, while the main body started eastward to rejoin their families. Their comrades at Pueblo were the first to follow the Pioneers to Salt Lake Valley. Captain Brown arrived there with the main body of his command- about one hundred in all-on the 29th of July. Taking the muster roll of his |