Day in the Life

Apr 17, 1847

Journal Entry

April 17, 1847 ~ Saturday

17th we travled 8 miles & camped in the edge of a grove
of cottonwoods to spend the sabbath in the Afternoon
the organization of the camp was finished in the follow
ing order B Young Lieutenant General. Stephen
Markham Colonel. John Pack 1st Major. Shedrich
Rounday 2nd Major

The Rigment be divided into tens under the folloing
Captains
Wilford Woodruff capt of 1st company
Ezra T. Benson 2nd [company]
Phineas H Young 3rd [company]
Luke Johnson 4th [company]
Stephen H Godard 5th [company]
Charles Shumway 6 [company]
James Case 7 [company]
Seth Taph 8 [company]
Howard Egan 9 [company]
Appleton Harmon 10 [company]
John Higby 11 [company]
Norton Jacobs 12 [company]
John Brown 13 [company]
Joseph Matthews 14th [company]

Orders from Gen Young was for the whole
regment to Journey in a copacked body as we
were in an indian country for evry man to carry
his gun loaded for the cap locks to be shut onto a
peace of Buck skin with cap Handy to slip on in
an instant in case of an attacked. for flint locks
with cotton or tow in the pan, & A powder flask handy
to prime quick, the object of this caution is to prevent
accidents And for every man to walk beside his
waggon & not leave it except He is sent away.
Strict rules & disipline are necessary while travling
through A Hostile indian country, some traiders
came down from the Pawnees & camped with us
over night, they had a plenty of Boffaloo meet
dried & gave us what we wished. they informed
us we were within two days drive of the whole dody [body]
of the pawnees, we camped here in a line for the
sabbath

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5 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3427 mentions
Apostle, Family
Shumway, Charles
1 Aug 1806 - 21 May 1898
5 mentions
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
378 mentions
Apostle
Egan, Howard
1815-1878
14 mentions
10 mentions
39 mentions
Pack, John
20 May 1809 - 4 Apr 1885
32 mentions
13 mentions
Matthews, Joseph
9 Jan 1809 - 14 May 1886
4 mentions
Johnson, Luke
3 Nov 1807 - 8 Dec 1861
73 mentions
Apostle
6 mentions
Young, Phineas Howe
16 Feb 1799 - 10 Oct 1879
56 mentions
Taft, Seth
1796-1863
6 mentions
Roundy, Shadrach
11 Jan 0789 - 4 Jul 1872
10 mentions
9 mentions
Markham, Stephen
9 Feb 1800 - 10 Mar 1878
36 mentions

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Apr 17, 1847