Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-29

the outbreak OF the Walker war,
so named from the Ute
Chief Walker, or Walkara,
fierce and truculent savage, whose
murderous depredauons terrOrized
Utah, Sanpete and other southern
counties for several months. when
treaty Of peace was entered into be-
tween him and the Governor of the Ter
iltory. The officers most prominent in
the field at this time were Colonel
George A. Smith, In command of all
the militia south Of Salt Lake City,
win instructions TO take prompt ana
thorough measures for the defense and
safety OF the settlements; Lieut.. Will
nam ii. kimball; Colonel +. w. Con-
over, Lieut. stephen Markham and
Lieut., Burns. Apostle Franklin u.
richards aided Colonel Smith in his
important task. Operations were car
RED on, as a matter OF courae, under
the direction Of Governor Young and
General Wells at Salt Lake City Dur
ing the war much property was burned
or stolen by the Indians, many Of whom
were slain. score or more OF white
people were killed and several settle
inents were abandoned the inhabitants
ilochlhg into the forts for protection.
II was during this troubled year that
tho lamented Captain Gunnison and
seYon Of his party Of government sur
yeVors We're massacred by Pauvant In
ulets neg" the rpper. end of Sewer
Lake.
In April 1857, the militia Organization
was still further perfected. and Inc fer
rltory divided into thirteen military
districts, each having its commander.
as follows: Great Salt Lake. General
George u. Grant; Weber, Colonel
Chauncey w. West, Davis, Colonel ",
G. Merrill; Box Elder, Major Samuel
smith; Tooele, Major John Rowberry:
Provo, Colonel William y. Pace; Lehi,
Major David Evans; Payson, General
Aaron Johnson Nephl, Major George
W. Bradley Sanpete, Major Warren
y snow; Fillmore, Major l.. H. Nc
Cullough; ParoWan, Colonel w. III.
Dame; Green River, Isaac Bullock. The
stan OF the lieutenant general took on
such new names as James w. Cum
mlhgs, paymaster- general; j. l.. Dun
yon, surgeon-general. Jesse G.. Little,
and Joseph A. Young, aides-de-camp:
Albert Darlington, chief OF Topographic
al engineers; Thomas w. Ellerbeck,
chief OF ordnance, John T. Calne, mlli1
tary secretary; Brigham Young, Jun,
ana Stephen Taylor, color bearers In
SAT- Lake county George ID. Grant sue
ceeded his deceased brother Jedediah NJ.
Grant as major-general William II.
kimball and Franklin D. Richards be-
came brlgadler generals; Robert T.
Burton, colonel Of cavalry, and Jesse p.
Harmon, Thomas Callister and David
j. Ross, colonels Of infantry. Alonzo
n. Raleigh, Elijah +. Sheets Daniel D.
Macarthur, Franklin Il. Woolley Fred
erlck Kesler David Pettigrew and
Others were majors. Feramorz Little
was assistant quartermaster- general
ana Nathaniel V. Jones, assistant com
missary- general. William c. Dunbar
was a chaplain. william II. Hooper
Joseph NJ. Simmons, Vincent Shurtlff
David Candland, Alexander McRae and
H. 5. Beattie were members OF General
Grants stan, and the corps OF topo-
graphical engineers included such
names as William Clayton, Jesse w.
Fox Horace K. Whitney John Jaques,
James II. Martneau, John Chislett. ].
Y. Long. VIM. Gill Mills. r. d. Brown.
Orson Pratt, Jr, and Aurelius Miner
In the ordnancedepaTtment were George
b. Wallace, Robert l.. Campbell Charles
Colebrook, Henry Maiben and Edward
Martin. Edwin d. Woolley was mill
tary storekeeper. The Legion now
numbered a little over six thousand
men.
Undoubtedly the most important
event In its history was the famous
Echo Canyon war, when II confronted,
for the first and only time, a United
states army The facts pertaining to
that stirring episode, which happily
ngueQl xpf IIg.I.In1
found an amicable adjustment salts
factory TO both sides in thecontroversy,
are briefly these President James
Buchanan, misled by false reports,
which represented the people Of Utah
to be in state Of rebellion against
the Federal government, in the sum
mer Of 1857 sent an army across the
plains to put down the alleged upris-
Ing That army, composed of about
two thousand choice troops, spendidly
equipped, was commanded by that bril-
liant soldier General Albert Sydney
Johnston, who afterwards fell at the
battle Of Shiloh, fighting on the side
OF the Confederacy. The vanguard
under Colonel II. h. Alexander Of the
Tenth United States infantry, entered
Utah about the middle OF September
encamped near Fort Bridger now in
Wyoming.
Brigham Young, who was still COVER
nor of Utah, serving out a second term
under appointment from President
Franklin Pierce, had been apprlsed OF
the army's approach as early as July
2ith, the news Of 1t having reached
him while he with most Of the inhabi-
tants Of Salt Lake City and the sur
rounding towns were celebrating, at
Silver lake, Big Cottonwood canyon,
the tenth anniversary OF the arrival
OF the pioneers in this valley The
governor was informed that the most
dlreful threats had been made by the
troops against the people Of Utah, men
and women, and remembering the
scenes Of blood and rapne through
which he and his co-religionists had
passed in Missouri and Illinois, he de-
termined-and in this resolve was sus-
taned by the united sentiment OF the
entire community-that II he had the
power to prevent no such sangulnary
scenes should be enacted I'm the peace
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