ENVÍO GRATIS en 1 día desde 19€. On the 27th of October, the column moved forwards. During the winter both sides strengthened their forces. Library of Congress. On the contrary, he begins to appear as a man of great native strength and scope of mind, who understands the phases of human character and knows how to avail himself of the knowledge, and who has acquired spiritual dominion over one hundred and fifty thousand souls, combined with absolute temporal supremacy over fifty thousand of the number. In 1951 Herbert Eugene Bolton’s Pageant in the Wilderness, a translation of the journal of the 1776 Domínguez-Escalante expedition, was published by the Utah Historical Society.The route of the two Franciscans and a small group of men went northwestward from Santa Fe through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The water of the Fork, clear and pure, rippled noisily over a stony bed between two unbroken walls of ice. And its absurdity would have seemed complete, if he had fancied the high road of this travel as leading through a community essentially Oriental in its social and political life, which was nevertheless ripening into a State of the American Union. AbeBooks.com: The Utah Expedition 1857-1858 A Documentary Account of the United States Military Movement under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and The Resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion: 8vo, orig. These last are a singular race of men, fast disappearing, like the Indian and the buffalo, their neighbors. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. This document was sent to Salt Lake City by a Mormon prisoner who was released for the purpose. He resolved, very properly, in view of his seniority, to assume the command-in-chief until General Harney should arrive from the East. In this respect the quartermaster who superintended the work might have learned a lesson from the experience of the British in the Crimea. Utah expedition, 1857-1858. describes the return journey of the Utah Expedition sent out by President Buchanan against the Mormons in 1857. An ordnance-battery, also, was organized for the purposes of the expedition. Known variously as "Buchanan's Blunder," the "Mormon War," and the "Contractor's War," the U.S. Army's expedition to Utah during 1857-1858 was a significant event for all involved. Its convicts were received by Colonel Johnston and committed to imprisonment in the guard-tents of the army. See this page in the original 1992 publication. The Utah Expedition provides tremendous insight into the employment of Mission Command by two opposing forces, the US Army and the Nauvoo Legion. Some of the stragglers around the tents were Indians belonging to a band of Pah-Utahs, among whom Dr. Hurt, already mentioned as the only Federal officer who did not abandon the Territory in the spring of 1857, had established a farm upon the banks of the Spanish Fork, which rises among the snows of Mount Nebo, and flows into Lake Utah from the East. For in-stance, the editors chose to ignore the immediate causes of friction between the United States government and the people of Utah. Attached to this, the canvas sloped to the ground, forming a tent in the shape of a regular cone. Isolated from Christendom on the east and west by plains incapable of settlement for generations to come, and encompassed by mountain-ranges, the line of whose summits runs above the boundary of eternal snow, it was independent of the influences of Christian civilization. Since the revelation of the processes of the Endowment, which was first fully made by a young apostate named John Hyde, other dissenters, real and pretended, have attempted to impose on the public exaggerated accounts of these ceremonies; but in justice to the Mormon Church it ought to be said, that there is no foundation for the reports that they are such as would outrage decency. Congress, over almost unanimous Republican opposition, authorized two new volunteer regiments, and Buchanan, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, and Army Chief of Staff Winfield Scott assigned 3,000 additional regular troops to reinforce the Utah Expedition. Nothing was heard from General Harney, and in his absence no one possessed instructions adequate to the emergency. Gunnison, having caught the exploration bug during his previous expeditions in Florida and Michigan, was thrilled to … On the 20th of November, Colonel Cooke reached the camp with a command entirely incapacitated for active service. No missionary of any Christian sect ever attempted to propagate his doctrines in Utah, — nor, perhaps, would any such propagation have been tolerated, had it been attempted. THE UTAH EXPEDITION de UNITED STATES. On the day of Captain Marcy’s departure, Governor Cumming issued a proclamation, declaring the Territory to be in a state of rebellion, and commanding the traitors to lay down their arms and return to their homes. The three United States judges, Kinney, Drummond, and Stiles, were presented to the public stripped of all judicial sanctity; — Kinney, the Chief Justice, as the keeper of a grocery-store, dance-room, and boarding-house, enforcing the bills for food and lodging against his brethren of the law by expulsion from the bar in case of non-payment, and so tenacious of life, that, before departing from the Territory, he solicited and received from Brigham Young a patriarchal blessing; Drummond, as an amorous horse-jockey, who had taken to Utah, as his mistress, a drab from Washington, and seated her beside him once upon the bench of the court; Stiles as himself a Mormon, so far as the possession of two wives could make him one. At a meeting in the Tabernacle, at which the Captain was present on the platform, when Brigham Young called on the audience for an expression of opinion, every hand was raised in favor of the policy of resistance, and in expression of willingness, if it should become necessary, to abandon harvest and homestead, retreat with the women to the mountains, and wage there a war of extermination. The consequence was, that in the wagons which were burned were contained all the mechanics’ implements, stationery, and horse-medicines, although the loss of the latter was not to be regretted. It was delayed so long in Kansas, meddling in matters in … Thomas Walker was born in Virginia on January 25, 1715. The Utah question, grave though it was, was forgotten in the excitement concerning Kansas, or remembered only by the Republican party, as enabling them to stigmatize more pungently the political theories of the Illinois Senator, by coupling polygamy and slavery, “twin relics of barbarism,” in the resolution of their Philadelphia Platform against Squatter Sovereignty. At the time of its occupation, the Fort consisted merely of two stone walls, one twenty, the other about ten feet in height, inclosing quadrangles fifty paces long and forty broad. Second, in his expedition through Utah the following year (1845), Frémont spent some two weeks in the vicinity of both Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake. On the succeeding Sundays the spirit of rebellion was breathed from the pulpit in language yet more intemperate, and often profane and obscene. Find items in libraries near you. Have you ever wanted to dig up dinosaurs? Shortly after the issue of Brigham Young’s proclamation of September 15th, the Mormons resolved to take the Doctor prisoner. The condition of affairs at this moment was indeed critical. The march was attended with the severest hardships. On Blacks Fork there was no grass for their support. The doctrines of Mormonism, if plainly stated, are no longer such as can commend themselves to a mind not perverted nor naturally prurient. The Colonel returned no other answer to this epistle than to dismiss its hearers with their salt, informing them that he could accept no favors from traitors and rebels, and that any communication which they might in future hold with the army must be under a flag of truce, although as to the manner in which they might communicate with the Governor it was not within his province to prescribe. In 1857 General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862) was sent to oversee 2500 troops escorting new federal officials to Utah during a tense time between the Mormons and the federal government known as the Utah War. The business of loading the trains had been carelessly performed at Fort Leavenworth. Following thence the North Fork of the Platte, and its tributary, the Sweetwater, — so named by an old French trapper, who had the misfortune to upset a load of sugar into the stream, — it emerges from the Black Hills into scenery of a different character. 1928. e2-gove. The Utah expedition, 1857-1858.. [LeRoy R Hafen] Home. It had resounding effects throughout American science and history, and disrupted the lives of countless Native Americans throughout North America. According to their standard of morality and taste, the rites of the Endowment are devoid of immodesty. The civil officers of the Territory fixed their quarters in a little nook in the wood above the military camp. Gove, Jesse Augustus, 1824-1862. An express reached him that same day, from Colonel Smith, by which he was informed of the approach of Colonel Albert S. Johnston, of the Second Cavalry, who had been detailed to take command of the expedition in the place of General Harney, and now sent orders that the troops should return to Blacks Fork, where he proposed to concentrate the entire army. The Governor and most of the other civil officers delayed until they started, and travelled in their company. A new species of tent, which had just been introduced, was served out for its winter dwellings. To be sure, an assemblage of members of both sexes, clad in white shifts, with oiled and dishevelled hair, in a room fitted up in resemblance of a garden, to witness a performance of the allegory of Adam and Eve in Eden, which is conducted so as to be sensually symbolic, is not suggestive of refined ideas; but it is necessary to take into consideration the character both of performers and witnesses, which is not distinguished in any way by delicacy. From Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie, almost the only fuel to be obtained is the dung of buffalo and oxen, called, in the vocabulary of the region, “chips,” — the argal of the Tartar deserts. He passed the troops in the vicinity of Port Laramie. This correspondence was now abruptly terminated by Colonel Johnston. Walker became a physician and land speculator for the Loyal Land … [Cornelius Conway] Home. I know what I think I shall say; if they play the same game again, let the women be ever so bad, so help me God, we will slay them.”. From this brief review of the natural features of the country, some idea may be formed of the intensity of the religious enthusiasm which has induced fifty thousand Mormon converts to traverse it, — many of them on foot and trundling hand-carts, — to seek a home among the valleys of Utah, in a region hardly more propitious; and some idea, also, of the difficulties which were to attend the march of the army. Accompanied by only thirty-five picked men, all volunteers, and by two guides, he started for Taos, November 27th, — an undertaking from which, at that season of the year, the most experienced mountaineers would have shrunk. The day was memorable in the history of the expedition. Governor Walker had, by this time, released his hold on the dragoons, and, notwithstanding the advanced period of the season, they were preparing to march to Utah. Read part two here and part three here. 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