Sunday Independance July 4th 1847 A meeting was held
last evening & the 4 men were appointed as pilots to go back
& meet the company were called upon to start this morning
to go on their journey. I accompanied Presidents Young
Kimball Richards & others to the ferry to put them across
[page torn] [t]he river & when we arived at the river we saw 13 horsman
[page torn] [o]n the opposite bank, with therir baggage on one of our rafts
[page torn] [B]ut to our great joy who should they be bout our Brethren
[page torn] [b]elonging to the Mormon Battalion who volunteered into the
[page torn] [se]rvice of the U.S.A. one year ago this month & belonged to Capt
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