Show Just Hist History ry ryBy By Albert P. P Philips l I U tras in Jut July 18 1182 J that Colonel ColOMI t p. p i rk k vard t Conner started r mi Jm t t al for tor Utah for the uj tj J of founding Kt Ft t Doug Douglas Ida It It Us i consisted Of ot the tho 4 ThiU Tl California In Infantry fa ant and the theS H S s. s or od d California cavalry On the march to lt h he vr was wa s d. d lJ by lay several c ral companies front from Nevada so o that when hn he arrived in ZIon lon hi his hIli force comprised several hundred hun bun dred Pat Connor was wai a R. born soldier and a brave man During the war with Mexico he lie was all a R. I When hen Ft Sumpter was fired d upon he lie R again aln tendered hie Isle to his hla countr country and was wan commissioned a colonel of ot the tho Infantry by governor got gov erno of ot C California and ami when he hIS received 1 orders r to march to Utah I he had recruited 1 two companies a and nd was a awaiting wAiting ord orders ra to go o to I the front Meanwhile the tho war had occurred in Utah in which tho the composing a a. band of perhaps GOO COO resisted a a. posse poise headed by the United States Slates marshal marshal mar mar- sisal ot of the territory who was as en en- en to servo and also alo enforce enforce en- en force a n process of or Ute the Third district die dis court with tho the result that when tho the posse com comprising about ICO men reached Kington fort tort where the tho were verC in in- in trenched and a demand made upon triton them to surrender within thirty minutes minute a II battle ensued I with tho the result that In the tho three days' days contest which toll followed owed the leader Morris was killed as all also his lieutenant Several other men and two women were accidentally slain Tho The posse POliO was u under the tho command of oC Colonel Robert Hobert T T. Burton Hurton and severn several I years later ho was placed on trial for tor alleged murder but WAS wa acquitted This controversy and clash with witha a set of or people who were resisting an officer led to the belief bellet that a condition existed in Utah that might cause an n outbreak at any anytime anytime time against tho the government and caused Secretary of ot War Var Stanton to order the establishment of ot a military post near Salt Lake for tor forthe forthe the purpose tin as stated at that time to watch Brigham Young antI and the Mormons The orders to Colonel Connor were wore to guard the overland overland overland over over- land man mall route When hen Ruby valley alley was as reached I Colonel Connor came ahead of ot his hili force to Salt Lake remaining but buta a da day or two when ho returned and then In compliance with a R. request of ot tho the men he ho telegraphed the tho war var department asking that his force torce be sent to tho the front de tie tie- I i elating claring in his message that they could be of ot no service In guarding the tho mail mall route as ne the cavalry could do that and saying that his men offered to pay their own transportation transportation trans trans- from San Francisco to Panama if It the tho government would order them to the East to tIght fight traitors The order however was not I I changed and the force proceeded I with their march to Ft Crittenden Critten- Critten den old Camp Floyd arriving there on October 17 IT 1802 sixty sixty- one ono years ago Wednesday Salt Lake was reached on the morning of ot October 20 and after atter saluting the governor at his residence marched to tho the present presen t site sUo of ot Ft rt Douglas and made mode camp and the beginning of ot Ft Douglas was as on While waiting for tor the construction of ot the barracks the tho men found shelter in huts and dugouts The I post was named after United States Senator Stephen A A. Doug Doug- las Colonel Connor appropriated the waters of ot Red Butte Butto canyon for tor the use uso of or the post Colonel Connor in defining his I policy polley in Utah said sald My Jy policy illand is ill and has haa been to invite hither a a. large largo gentile and loyal population sufficient by peaceful means and through the ballot box to overwhelm overwhelm overwhelm over over- whelm the Mormons by mere force torce of ot numbers and thus wrest from the church disloyal church disloyal nn and traitorous to the core core the tho absolute and tyrannical control of ot civil and temporal affairs or at lea least t a a. population numerous enough to put puta a check on tho the Mormon authorities and give countenance to those who are striving to loosen the bonds bond with which they have havo been so long oppressed |