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"It was eight hundred miles," says the sub- v" ject of this sketch, "from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, and through a very wild country, indeed. Except the teamsters, all had to walk. There was much suffering on account of the want of water and extreme heat in a desert country. Being foot-sore we found the march terribly hard, and there was much sickness from the change of water. In order to reach Santa Fe at a given time we had to make the last hundred miles of the journey by a forced march, a...nd traveled therefore night and day. We reached Santa Fe on the 10th of October 1846." Something of the heat on that journey may IN THE MORMON BATTALION 83 be gathered from the fact that the thermometer at Fort Leavenworth was 101 in the shade and 135 degrees in the sun. Another circumstance was distressing to the soldiers, and that was the death on the 23rd of August of Captain Allen. He was a kind-hearted man, and from the out- set won the confidence and good will of the Bat- talion. He was succeeded later by Lieut.
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