Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the early in the morning
the troops began to arrive having been dismissed by General Wells
and they continued to pour into the city until a late hour of the day.
Brother Southworth who had been a prisoner related to me his capture
&c. He said among the rest that when he came up with Howard
Livingston the principal merchant of G. S. L. City he asked him to intercede
with Johnston to let him go asto his family as they had nothing against
him only that he was a Mormon but Livingston would do nothing
for him.
He reported that there was much of the spirit of desertion
in the camp and that the officers treated their soldiers in a cruel manner
and that many would desert if they could. He said that the
greatest amount of any one article in the camp was ardent spirits
He thought there were 100 waggon loads of it. Howard Livingston
