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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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PROSPERITY AGAIN". 147<br />

was modelled after the Koman legion. The men were<br />

well disciplined, brave, and efficient. These troops<br />

carried their name to <strong>Utah</strong>, where they were reorganized<br />

in May 1857.<br />

Though all are soldiers, there are no dandy warriors<br />

in their midst. Each one returns after drill to his<br />

occupation—to his farm, factory, or merchandise.<br />

Among other workshops are a porcelain factory established<br />

by a Staffordshire company, two steam saw-<br />

mills, a steam flouring-mill, a foundry, and a toolfactory.<br />

A joint-stock company is organized under the<br />

style <strong>of</strong> the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing<br />

Association. Just outside the city is a community<br />

farm, worked by the poor for their own benefit;<br />

to each family in the city is allotted one acre <strong>of</strong><br />

ground; the system <strong>of</strong> community <strong>of</strong> property does<br />

not obtain.<br />

Most <strong>of</strong> the people in and about Nauvoo are<br />

Mormons, but not all. The population is made up<br />

chiefly from the farming districts <strong>of</strong> the United States<br />

and the manufacturing districts <strong>of</strong> England; though<br />

uneducated, unpolished, and superstitious, they are<br />

for the most part intelligent, industrious, competent,<br />

honest, and sincere. 8 With a shrewd head to direct,<br />

enstos, L. Woodworth; captains, D. B. Huntington, Samuel Hicks, Amos Davis,<br />

Mavcellus Bates, Charles Allen, L. N. Scovil, W. M. Allred, Justus Morse,<br />

John F. Olney, Darwin Chase, C. M. Kreymyer, and others. 'Col. A. P. Rockwood<br />

was drill-master. Rockwood was then a captain, but was afterward promoted<br />

to colonel <strong>of</strong> the militia, or host <strong>of</strong> Israel. I was then fourth corporal<br />

<strong>of</strong> a company. The people were regularly drilled and taught military tactics,<br />

so that they would be ready to act when the time came for returning to Jackson<br />

county, the promised land <strong>of</strong> our inheritance.' Lee's Morrnonism, 112. 'Reviews<br />

were held from time to time, and flags presented, and Joseph appeared'<br />

on all those occasions with a splendid staff, in all the pomp and circumstance<br />

<strong>of</strong> a full-blown military commander.' Ferris' <strong>Utah</strong> and the Mormons, 100-1.<br />

•At the last dress parade <strong>of</strong> the legion, he was accompanied in the field by a<br />

display <strong>of</strong> ten <strong>of</strong> his spiritual wives or concubines, dressed in a fine uniform,<br />

and mounted on elegant white horses.' Tucker's Morrnonism, 170. After the<br />

force reached <strong>Utah</strong> it was 'regularly drilled by competent <strong>of</strong>ficers, many <strong>of</strong><br />

whom served in Mexico with the Mormon battalion under Gen. W. Scott.<br />

They are well armed, and perfectly fearless.' Hyde's Morrnonism, 183. See<br />

further Times and Seasons, ii. 321-2, 417-18, 435, 517; iii. 054, 700-1, 718,<br />

733-4, 921; Stenhouse's Tell It All, 306; Deseret News, April 15 and July 1,'<br />

1857, July G, 1S59; Gunnison's Mormons, 133; Smucker's Hist. Mor., 149?<br />

Kidder's Morrnonism, 182-9.<br />

8 Says the St Louis Atlas <strong>of</strong> September 1841: The people <strong>of</strong> Nauvoo 'have

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