Table of Contents
| [I.] | |
| The March of the Battalion Compared With Other Historical Marches. | |
| Retreat of the Ten Thousand | [1] |
| Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico | [3] |
| The World's Record for a March of Infantry | [4] |
| [II.] | |
| The Call of the Battalion. | |
| The Mormon Appeal to the United States Government for Help | [5] |
| Little's Consultations with the President | [7] |
| The Order to Enlist Mormon Volunteers | [11] |
| Terms of Enlistment | [12] |
| Captain Allen in the Mormon Camps | [13] |
| Brigham Young's Activities in Raising the Battalion | [16] |
| Muster of the Battalion | [18] |
| Farewell Scenes | [19] |
| [III.] | |
| Advantages and Disadvantages in the Call of the Battalion. | |
| A Sacrifice Nevertheless | [21] |
| Advantages of the Enlistment | [22] |
| Money Value of the Enlistment | [24] |
| The Equipment of the Battalion to be Retained | [25] |
| Appreciation of the Mormon Leaders | [26] |
| [IV.] | |
| The March of the Battalion From Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. | |
| Death of Colonel Allen. Question of a Successor | [27] |
| Complaints of the Volunteers | [28] |
| The Line of March | [29] |
| Arrival at Santa Fe. Condition of the Command | [30] |
| Invalided Detachment Sent to Pueblo | [32] |
| [V.] | |
| The March of the Battalion From Santa Fe to the Mouth of the Gila. | |
| More Invaliding | [34] |
| Hardship of Excessive Toil | [35] |
| Irrigation in New Mexico | [36] |
| March Down the Rio Grande | [36] |
| "Blow the Right." The Westward Turn | [37] |
| The Fight with Wild Bulls | [38] |
| Mexican Opposition at Tucson | [39] |
| Junction with Kearny's Trail | [42] |
| March Down the Gila | [42] |
| At the Mouth of the Gila | [43] |
| [VI.] | |
| The March of the Battalion From the Colorado to the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Destitution and Suffering of the Men en March | [45] |
| From Carriso Creek to San Phillipe | [47] |
| At Warner's Rancho | [49] |
| The March Directed to San Diego | [49] |
| In Sight of the Pacific | [50] |
| San Diego Mission | [51] |
| Col. Cooke's Bulletin on the Battalion's March | [51] |
| [VII.] | |
| The Battalion in California. | |
| At San Luis Rey Mission | [54] |
| Clean up and Drill | [54] |
| Company B at San Diego | [55] |
| The Conquest of California | [56] |
| The Kearny-Fremont Controversy | [56] |
| [VIII.] | |
| Record of the Battalion in California. | |
| Efforts to Re-enlist the Battalion | [58] |
| Homeward Bound | [60] |
| The Discharge and Payment of the Pueblo Detachments | [61] |
| The Purchase of Ogden Site with Battalion Money | [61] |
| The Battalion's Contribution of Seeds to Utah Colonies | [63] |
| The Battalion's Part in the Discovery of Gold | [63] |
| The Date of the Discovery of Gold | [65] |
| The Tide of Western Civilization Started | [67] |
| The Mormon Battalion's "Diggings" on the American River | [68] |
| The Call of Duty | [69] |
| Ascent of the Sierras from the Western Side | [72] |
| Wagon Trail from Los Angeles to Salt Lake | [72] |
| Evidence of Appreciation of the Battalion's Services | [73] |
| Efforts to Raise a Second Mormon Battalion | [74] |
| [IX.] | |
| The Battalion in the Perspective of Seventy-Three Years. | |
| The Battalion as Utah Pioneers | [76] |
| Achievements of the Battalion | [77] |
| Territory Added to the United States | [77] |
| The Gadsden Purchase and the Battalion Route | [78] |
| Connection with Irrigation | [80] |
| [X.] | |
| The Subsequent Distinction Achieved by the Battalion's Commanding Officers. | |
| Colonel Cooke | [83] |
| Lieut. A. J. Smith | [84] |
| Lieut. George Stoneman | [84] |
| [XI.] | |
| Anecdotes. | |
| Character of Col. Cooke | [85] |
| Col. Cooke and Christoper Layton | [85] |
| Col. Cooke and Lot Smith | [86] |
| The Colonel, the Mule, and Bigler | [87] |
| "Wire, Wire, Wire D——n You Sir!" | [88] |
| Col. Cooke's Respect for the Battalion | [88] |
| [ADDENDA.] | |
| The Battalion's Monument. | |
| The State of Utah's Mormon Battalion Monument Commission | [89] |
| Description of the Monument | [91] |
| The Duty of the People of Utah | [95] |
The Mormon Battalion
I.
THE MARCH OF THE BATTALION COMPARED WITH OTHER HISTORICAL MARCHES.
"The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding congratulates the Battalion on their safe arrival on the shores of the Pacific ocean, and the conclusion of their march of over two thousand miles. History will be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry."
So wrote Lieutenant-Colonel P. St. George Cooke in "Order No. I," from "Head Quarters Mormon Battalion, Mission of San Diego", under date of January 30th, 1847. If Col. Cooke is accurate in his statement—and one has a right to assume that he is, since he was a graduate of the United States Military academy of West Point, and hence versed in the history of such military incidents—then the march of this Battalion is a very wonderful performance. For if history might be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry when Col. Cooke wrote his "Order No. I," then certainly no march of infantry since that time has equaled it.