History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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was modelled after the Koman legion. The men were
well disciplined, brave, and efficient. These troops
carried their name to Utah, where they were reorganized
in May 1857.
Though all are soldiers, there are no dandy warriors
in their midst. Each one returns after drill to his
occupation—to his farm, factory, or merchandise.
Among other workshops are a porcelain factory established
by a Staffordshire company, two steam saw-
mills, a steam flouring-mill, a foundry, and a toolfactory.
A joint-stock company is organized under the
style of the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing
Association. Just outside the city is a community
farm, worked by the poor for their own benefit;
to each family in the city is allotted one acre of
ground; the system of community of property does
not obtain.
Most of the people in and about Nauvoo are
Mormons, but not all. The population is made up
chiefly from the farming districts of the United States
and the manufacturing districts of England; though
uneducated, unpolished, and superstitious, they are
for the most part intelligent, industrious, competent,
honest, and sincere. 8 With a shrewd head to direct,
enstos, L. Woodworth; captains, D. B. Huntington, Samuel Hicks, Amos Davis,
Mavcellus Bates, Charles Allen, L. N. Scovil, W. M. Allred, Justus Morse,
John F. Olney, Darwin Chase, C. M. Kreymyer, and others. 'Col. A. P. Rockwood
was drill-master. Rockwood was then a captain, but was afterward promoted
to colonel of the militia, or host of Israel. I was then fourth corporal
of a company. The people were regularly drilled and taught military tactics,
so that they would be ready to act when the time came for returning to Jackson
county, the promised land of our inheritance.' Lee's Morrnonism, 112. 'Reviews
were held from time to time, and flags presented, and Joseph appeared'
on all those occasions with a splendid staff, in all the pomp and circumstance
of a full-blown military commander.' Ferris' Utah and the Mormons, 100-1.
•At the last dress parade of the legion, he was accompanied in the field by a
display of ten of his spiritual wives or concubines, dressed in a fine uniform,
and mounted on elegant white horses.' Tucker's Morrnonism, 170. After the
force reached Utah it was 'regularly drilled by competent officers, many of
whom served in Mexico with the Mormon battalion under Gen. W. Scott.
They are well armed, and perfectly fearless.' Hyde's Morrnonism, 183. See
further Times and Seasons, ii. 321-2, 417-18, 435, 517; iii. 054, 700-1, 718,
733-4, 921; Stenhouse's Tell It All, 306; Deseret News, April 15 and July 1,'
1857, July G, 1S59; Gunnison's Mormons, 133; Smucker's Hist. Mor., 149?
Kidder's Morrnonism, 182-9.
8 Says the St Louis Atlas of September 1841: The people of Nauvoo 'have