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soon as I went ahead to attend to the forward cattle. His 

 laziness was his salvation. The other was a "pointer" who 

 did his duty faithfully to the end. 



Returning to camp we were in time to see the soldiers on 

 dress parade. Their bright arms and prompt movements 

 were pleasant to see, all being regulars. We saw General 

 Albert Sydney Johnston, in command, who in four years was 

 to fall at Shiloh, in arms against the flag which now floated 

 over him. Many of the company's commissioned oflicers 

 were in the same time to be colonels and generals in either 

 service. Strains of martial music enlivened the scene ; among 

 which were the stirring airs of " Yankee Doodle," " Bold 

 Soldier Boy " and the " Girl I Left Behind Me :" airs soon to 

 be familiar to all, north and south. Many of the privates 

 were deserting for California and elsewhere. 



This army had many tribulations en route to Camp Floyd. 

 It left Fort Laramie the previous September, and from want 

 of supplies (which were intercepted and burned by Mormon 

 guerillas) and deep snows got no farther then Bridger. When 

 spring opened the troops were detained, while Governor 

 Gummings and the Peace Commissioners were parleying with 

 the Mormon leaders, and did not reach Salt Lake until the 

 26th of June. They found the streets almost deserted, the 

 leading citizens having gone to Provo, fifty miles south. Gov- 

 ernor Gummings truckled to the rebels, and to induce them 

 to return they were granted amnesty ; and the troops marched 

 to a sterile plain, forty or fifty miles south-east and beyond 

 the Jordan, that their presence might not cause irritation. 

 Thus humored, the people soon came back, and for months 

 reaped a rich harvest selling grain, flour, wood and lumber 

 to the troops. Brigham Young ran his three saw mills in a 

 canon he claimed as his own, steadily cutting material for 

 soldiers' quarters, each earning one hundred dollars per day. 

 The Mormons had their own fun spoiling the Egyptians in 



