History of California . especting this purpose of the government, was theappearance at Mt. Pisgafi, one of their temporary settle-ments in Iowa, of an army recruiting officer, CaptainJames Allen, who issued a circular, making known thewishes of General Kearny concerning the troops to beraised. Allen then went on to the Bluffs, to conferwith President Young and other leading men of theChurch. Coming at such a time, without warning,and embodying a proposition so different from theone submitted by Agent Little at Washington, the callcreated at first some consternation. A force of team- COLONEL CO
History of California . especting this purpose of the government, was theappearance at Mt. Pisgafi, one of their temporary settle-ments in Iowa, of an army recruiting officer, CaptainJames Allen, who issued a circular, making known thewishes of General Kearny concerning the troops to beraised. Allen then went on to the Bluffs, to conferwith President Young and other leading men of theChurch. Coming at such a time, without warning,and embodying a proposition so different from theone submitted by Agent Little at Washington, the callcreated at first some consternation. A force of team- COLONEL COOKEColonel Philip St. George Cooke, U. S. A., a native ofVirginia, born in 1809, was graduated from West Point in1827, and saw service in Illinois and in Kansas before theMexican War, during which he commanded the MormonBattalion in its march from Santa Fe into Southern Cali-fornia. During the Civil War he fought for the Union; wasretired in 1873, after forty-six years of continuous armyservice, and died March 20, MORMONS IN CALIFORNIA 169 sters, with wagons to freight stores and supplies, wasone thing; a battalion of five hundred lighting menwas quite another. In the midst of an exodus rifewith dangers and hardships, the services of that numberof able-bodied men could ill be spared. But there was no hesitation. You shall have yourbattalion, Captain Allen, said President Young, andif there are not young men enough, we will take the oldmen; and if they are not enough, we will take thewomen; a touch of grim humor tempering the stern-ness of the resolve. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, U. S. A.,who came with Agent Little to the Bluffs, in his accountof the enlistment of the battalion, summarized theincident thus: A central mass meeting for council,some harangues at the more remotely scattered camps,an American flag brought out from the store-house ofthings rescued and hoisted to the top of a tree-mast,and in three days the force was reported, mustered,organized, and ready to march.
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