Show After the receipt of the letter of I Instruction from the several of officials officials of- of In Washington which was explicit in directing what the federal federal fed fed- eral officials In Utah should do and to what duties they could perform j peace reigned In Utah for tor awhile although at Camp Floyd there was Intense indignation over the instructions in- in In 1 In-I In and at a mass meeting held In the camp in July 1853 1850 an I address was issued In which was a declaration that the people people peo peo- I pie were still disloyal and declarIng declaring ing that President Buchanan had inflicted a great wrong on the tho people pee peo pIe that It was vas a great mistake peo-I peo to withdraw the troops from protectIng protectIng protecting protect protect- ing the courts Petitions were vere circulated circulated cir cir- cir cir- the same addressed to President Buchanan urging him to remove Governor Cumming AUthe All AU I the Influence of General Johnston I Iwas was agai against it the the governor and he made use of it in ways I However had It not been for the influence of Colonel Thomas Kane who at that time had Just returned to Washington and the east from his trip to Utah the move to oust Governor Go CummIng would have been successful Colonel Kane delivered an ad address address address ad- ad dress upon conditions as he found them in Utah paid a high tribute to Governor CummIng and declared that he was the right man in the right place and nd the man of all men for the emergency that existed Inthe Inthe in inthe the territory This address was Circulated all i over the e eastern country the and Impression that it made In the national capital was with the influence of oC a number of oC others such that Governor CUmmIng Cumming Cum CUm- mIng was not disturbed CIVIL WAR BREAKS Then came the Civil war and with the outbreak came an order for th the withdrawal of the troops from the territory For his obis services in Utah General Johnston Johnton had be been n br breveted brigadier general and he remained In command in Utah until February 29 1860 when he was at atthe atthe atthe the outbreak of the war placed In command of the department of the Pacific with headquarters In San Francisco On April 10 10 1861 he resigned his commission and proceeded proceeded proceeded pro pro- to Richmond Va where he entered the service of the Confederate Confederate erate government was commis- commis a a. general and placed In command command com corn mand of ot the Confederate forces Inthe Inthe in inthe the west weft At Bowling Green Ky he held the line from September 1861 to February 1862 against greatly su superior superior superior su- su forces and on the fa fall of ot Ft Henry and Ft t Donelson In February February February ary he made a successful retreat through middle Tennessee to Corinth Corinth Co Co- Co- Co Miss where he assembled the entire force east of the Mississippi 1 sippi Ippi under his command In number and advancing attacked the Union army under Grant at Shiloh church unexpectedly on April 6 1862 and drove him hini t to the cover of his gunboats to Pittsburg Landing capturing more than prisoners and then while leading a charge he was killed REGARDED AGGRESSIVE He was regarded by prominent officers in both armies as as' as one of the most aggressive and brilliant of the Confederate generals Jefferson Davis Dayis president of the Confederacy in a. a message to the Confederate congress said of ot General Johnston Without t doing Injustice to the living living liv liv- ing It may safely be said that our loss is Irreparable Johnston never visited Salt Lake after passing through with his army In the summer of oC 1858 When he was placed in command of the department of the he was succeeded at Camp Floyd by Colonel Cooke Cooko as post commander command r. r By the latter's order In February 1861 the name of Camp Floyd was changed to Ft Crittenden the secretary sec of war John B. B Floyd havIng having haying hav hay ing at that time shown his disloyalty disloyalty disloyalty dis dis- dis- dis loyalty to the government and like Johnston became a a. Confederate general The first order transferring transferring trans trans- ferring the troops in Utah was sas to send the larger part of them to Oregon and New Mexico and in July 1861 the remainder were were- or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered east and the trek across the plains was begun The camp was abandoned and worth of stores at the camp were sold for while great quantities of ot arms and ammunition which could not be moved were destroyed by direction of the war department |