Within sixty days five hundred men were recruited and placed in camp, and a request made that a battallion be mustered into the United States service.
On the 4th of August, several of the Mormon Battallionreturning to Winter Quarters, met the Pilgrim Companies, and joyful indeed was the meeting for they were husbands, fathers, brothers and sons of women who were in those companies.
In the summer of 1849, Elvira earned fifty dollars at different kinds of work, and making straw hats for the emigrants going to California to get gold the Battallion boys were the first to find.
The Mormon Battallion came; peace was declared, the gold mines were discovered, and the circumstances of the Saints were changed from isolation and famine to wealth and grandeur.
She says: "While there I well remember being present when the martial band was marching round and the call was made for the Mormon Battallion for Mexico.
The first Battallion reached Ripley about the 1st of October, and on the 19th of October, this Battallion and twenty-five men of Co.
The First Battallion crossed the river about the 1st of November, and took up the line of march for Lexington, Ky.
The battallion of Kentucky cavalry was dismounted and formed on the extreme left of our line.
This battallion was to charge the center and to move first, Capt.
The shells fell in close proximity to the battallion which had been sent out to watch and guard against any movements of the enemy to flank our position.
In the meantime one battallion of the 7th was sent back through Mears to Tuchlechy to create a diversion and hold the Gap while the expedition was being made.
That the said Company, when raised, shall be either employed as an independent Company, or incorporated into any Battallion as to this Convention, or to a future proper authority of this State, shall appear advisable.
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