[36:b] Tyler's History of The Mormon Battalion, pp. 180-183.
[38:c] Tyler's Battalion, pp. 219, 220.
[39:d] Cooke's Conquest, pp. 145, 6.
[39:e] Tyler's Battalion, p. 219.
[40:f] Cooke's Conquest, p. 149.
[41:g] Previous to this the Colonel had issued the following order:
"Head Quarters Mormon Battalion,
"Camp on the San Pedro,
"December 13th, 1846.
"Thus far on our course we have followed the guides furnished us by the General [Kearny]. These guides now point to Tucson, a garrison town, as our road, and assert that any other course is a hundred miles out of the way and over a trackless wilderness of mountains, rivers and hills. We will march, then, to Tucson. We came not to make war on Sonora, and less still to destroy an important outpost of defense against Indians: but we will take the straight road before us, and overcome all resistance. But shall I remind you that the American soldier ever shows justice and kindness to the unarmed and unresisting? The property of individuals you will hold sacred. The people of Sonora are not our enemies.