[Signed] "P. C. Merrill, Adjutant."[53:g]
Small wonder, though the reading of this Bulletin to the Battalion was unaccountably delayed for four days, that the Mormon volunteers received this official announcement of their achievements with hearty cheers.
FOOTNOTES:
[46:a] Tyler, pp. 244-5.
[46:b] Cooke's Conquest, p. 185.
[46:c] Ibid, p. 184.
[47:d] "Conquest," p. 187.
[49:e] Conquest, p. 193.
[51:f] Conquest, p. 195—note.