Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-12-30 | Page 12 | Know Utah

1 I KNOW UTAH I IBy I By ALBERT F F. PHILIPS While it had beert been intended to give Johnstons Johnston's army the bt best st equipment possibly possible and to make the expedition to Utah tho best bet equipped body of men menever menever menever ever outfitted by the government up to that time quartermasters ll knew w nothing about bout the country and supplies were packed haphazard without lm knowing wing what was really needed Tho result was a second Valley Forge and the men suffered red and endured privations privations pd- pd Just as itS did the tho continental troops in the Revolution 0 S I Tho The trains of supplies which had been burned by by- bythe tho the Mormons under Lot Smith at Simpson Hollow Hol lIol- low were loaded With provisions but those which I came camo after contained supplies of clothing a large part of which WAS utterly unfitted for a winter camp campin in the Rocky mountains Here Hero was an my army numbering numbering num num- I bering boring 2400 officers and men nien who were to remain for fH six months at the minimum In a country where the thermometer would and did drop to 45 degrees below zero The fhe rhe quartermaster at Leavenworth had forwarded blankets ets coats and great coats SOO pairs pails of boots and pairs of stockings 1500 pairs of epaulets and a n large largo quantity of metallic scales also caps and cap covers There were three times as many covers as clips caps while one ono wagon I carried nothing but but cam camp kettles S I With tho the wagon load of or camp kettles l of course salt would be a necessity in the making of brine but the quartermaster for forgot ot tho the salt BaIt and there was not a pound of It in the camp The Tho fact that the tho camp had no salt became known in Salt Lake City and Governor Brigham Young in a letter to the tho commanding officer of the Ute United States troops I stated that General Genral Johnston might accept it as a gift Should ho he not desire it as a gift payment I would be accepted Young said but the tender was declined Afterward the army paid 5 a pound for it Meanwhile General Johnston sent out detachments detachments detachments detach detach- I ments of meIl to go as far as Oregon and also alto New Mexico 1 to purchase cattle for beef and remounts for forthe forthe the thc cavalry and tho tim cattle left at Fort Henry were I butchered and made into jerked beef and stored With all the discomforts the troops it was said were content They erected a pavilion tI the e timber for which was dragged m many ny miles through tho the snow Christmas day dar 1857 just eighty years ago was celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- in much the tho same way as it was on Monday I last with song and dance Q I In Salt L Lake ke and Utah the disasters to the Johnston Johnston John John- JohnI I ston army were regarded as a righteous judgment and as an act of providence Discourses In the tho Tabernacle were vero man many and in some instances there I was more moro or less lets bragging done and the declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion was made that Israel would soon be freed In Inan Inan Inan an address delivered by Lorenzo D. D Young December December Decem Decem- I ber bel 13 1857 in the Tabernacle he Is quoted as saying saying saying say say- ing If our enemies I I do not mean those those out yonder a swarm of long billed mosquitoes could cat them up at a supper spell I mean tho whole United States and the whole world world world-if if they should come upon us they cannot prevail