For the brilliancy of this action, Col. Connor was promoted by the President to be Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers, which rank he now retains.
He is a man of strong common sense, excellent and quick judgment, invincible energy and determination, firmness amounting to obstinacy, and the strictest integrity.
His administration in Utah has been eminently successful. By Brigham Young he is at once hated and feared. He is but little past forty years of age.
FOOTNOTES:
[97:A] The above embraces all the commissioned officers then stationed at Camp Douglas.
CHAPTER VII.
BRIGHAM AS PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH.
Organization of the Mormon Church.—Functions of the various Officers. The Two Priesthoods.—Mode of Treating Dissenters or "Apostates."—Divisions in the Church.—The Gladdenites.—History of the Morrisites.—The Josephites.—Return to the true Mormon Church.