in his report to the United States Army
regarding the incident at Mountiain Meadows
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To: Major W. W. Mackall, Assistant Adjutant-General, U.S.A., San Francisco, California.
From: Camp at Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, May 25th, 1859. Major, When I left Los Angeles, General Clarke, commanding the Department of California, directed me to bury the bones of the victims of that massacre which took place on this ground in September 1857. The fact of this massacre of a wagon train of The train seemed to consist of respectable people, well to do in the world. They were well dressed, were quiet, orderly, genteel, had fine stock and other evidences which went to show that this was one of the The road upon which these emigrants were seen crosses the Rocky Mountains through the South Pass, and thence goes on down into the Great Basin to Salt Lake City, and thence southward along the western base of the Wasatch Mountains to what is called the rim of the basin. The train of emigrants proceeding southward from Fillmore toward the Mountain Meadows are next seen, so far as my inquiries go, by a Mr. Jacob Hamblin, a leading Mormon, who has a cattle ranch and a house at the Mountain Meadows. |