Day in the Life
Journal Entry
July 09, 1846 ~ Thursday
9th We continued our journey this morning
we came along side of the general encampment
at Council Bluffs about noon I saw the
encampment of the Twelve or some of them
I had an interview with Elders P P Pratt & J
and John Taylor And many other friends
I pithed my tent & encampment on a Bluff
near Elders Taylor & P P Pratt we had hard
rain at night. we held a council in the evening
about raising 500 volunteers for the President
of the U. S. to go to upper Calafornia via Santa fe
we wrote A letter & signed it to be carried through
the camp. Distance from Pisgah to the Bluffs 160 miles
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Polk, James Knox
2 Nov 1795 - 15 Jun 1849
24 mentions
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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
548 mentions
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Wilford at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa when Captain Allen arrives to recruit Mormon Battalion.
Woodruffs reach Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Mormon Battalion recruited by United States Army.
Woodruffs cross Missouri River to Cutler's Park, Nebraska.
Wilford rebaptized second time; rebaptizes Phebe, Sarah E. Brown, Mary C. Barton, Mary Ann Jackson, and Rosetta King.
Wilford expels Sarah Elinor Brown and Mary Caroline Barton from his family for misconduct.