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Show Mormon Battalion Maps Plans For Inaugural Parade March t f : X0 sv v V :-:yyys x-ix-XvvX-r-XvXvX-:- Col. Elias L. Day, second from left, was in charge of Sons of Utah Pioneers Mormon Batallion at dedication ceremonies for the military mili-tary cemetery at old Camp Floyd, Cedar Valley. Some 100 members of Johnston's army are buried in the cemetery. Battalion will march in the Inaugural Parade for President-elect John Kennedy in Washington. eastward and crosses the Mississippi Missis-sippi River for the first time to participate in the inaugural parade. In preparation for this outstanding out-standing trek all members interested in-terested in going with others of the Battalion and escorts will meet at the Armory, Fort Douglas, Doug-las, January 3, at 7:30 p.m. Col. Fred M. Reese, chairman of arrangements for the Battalion's Bat-talion's participation in the inaugural in-augural parade said buses will leave Salt Lake City with members mem-bers on Jan. 13. Senator Frank B. Moss is a member of the Battalion and will be in Washington for the inauguration. Col. Reese said this week he did not know if the senator would be able to march with the Battalion. I The Sons of the Utah Pioneers Mormon Battalion has been invited in-vited to participate in the great inaugural parade at Washington, D.C., January 20, as the official representative of the state of Utah. A great honor has been conferred con-ferred upon the Mormon Battalion Bat-talion by giving it the opportunity opportu-nity of representing the state as well as the Mormon pioneers and the original Battalion in accomplishing accom-plishing the longest march of infantry in-fantry in the history of the world. On June 6, 1960, the Mormon Battalion was an invited guest at the exercises for dedication of the military cemetery for the soldier dead of Johnston's Army at Camp Floyd, Cedar Valley, Utah. History records that the last commander at Camp Floyd and who returned with the U.S. troops to the east was Colonel Phillip St. George Cooke, and that, although a Virginian, he remained true to the Union and was finally commissioned Major General in charge of cavalry. At the time of the construction of the monument of the Mormon Battalion on the State Capitol Grounds, May Belle Thurman, now Mrs. M. C. Davis, and who had much to do with the successful suc-cessful construction of the monument, monu-ment, located and corresponded with Mrs. Jeb Stuart, famous Confederate Cavalry leader and whose wife was the daughter of Col. Phillip St. George Cooke. Mrs. Stuart was still alive at the time of the construction of the monument on the capitol grounds. It is with such a rich historical background that the Mormon Battalion now moves |