History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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ever description, except as a posse coraitatus ordered
forth by himself or by the United States marshal. 8
After some correspondence with General Wells, the
musters in the various districts were postponed until
further notice, by command of the latter, though they
had been regularly held for eighteen years, and returns
duly made, in accordance with an act of congress
approved in 1803. In 1870 the militia, which
has never since been assembled, included about 13,000
men, most of them efficiently armed, drilled, and
equipped, while the United States troops stationed at
Camp Douglas, Camp Rawlins in Utah county, and
elsewhere in the territory, numbered only a few hundred.
9
The proclamation was ill-advised, and for what purpose
it was issued, save as a puerile expression of the
8 For copy of proclamation, see Millennial Star, xxxii. 668; Smith's Rise,
Progress, and Travels, 63.