Brother Wilford Woodruff another member of Zion's Camp gives
the following account of his journey to Missouri ^with the camp^ and his experience
in Clay county:
The , was appointed for the Camp of
Zion to start from Kirtland to go up to Missouri for the redemption
of their brethren. Only a small portion of the Camp was ready.
The Prophet told those who were ready to go to New Portage and
wait for the remainder. I left, in company with about twenty men,
with the baggage wagons. At night we pitches our tents. I went to
the top of a hill and looked down upon the camp of Israel. I knelt
upon the ground and prayed. I rejoiced and praised the Lord that I
had lived to soo [see] some of the tents of Israel pitches, and a company
gathered by the commandment of God to go up and help redeem Zion.
We tarried at New Portage until the , when we were joined by
the Prophet and eighty-five more men. The day before they arrived,
