Diary of George Deliverance Wilson, Mormon Battalion, 1846-1847.

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Diary of George Deliverance Wilson, Mormon Battalion, 1846-1847.

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Photocopy of a diary kept by George Deliverance Wilson while with Company E and the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion from 1846-1847. Wilson writes of marching along the Rio Grande; being taken to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a company of the sick (which Wilson describes as "being sold again into the hands of the gentiles"); and traveling to El Paso, Texas, and finally Pueblo, Colorado, with the William W. Willis Company. Wilson writes of his desire to be discharged and his dislike of Army lieutenants, including Willis and Phillip St. George Cooke. Among his complaints are half-rationing and the reprimand he received for aiding a sick man who had been left along the road. Near the end of the diary Wilson concludes that "the last few months have been those of the greatest persecution I have ever experienced." Also included are several pages of poems written by Wilson.

1 photocopy of diary, 26 pages.

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Wilson, George Deliverance, 1807-1887.

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George Deliverance Wilson was born in Shelbourne, Vermont, on December 28, 1807. Ill health forced him to leave Vermont, and he traveled to Ohio after hearing of the newly founded Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was given a copy of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith, and baptized into the Mormon faith in August 1834. Wilson worked as a mechanic in Kirtland, Ohio, from 1837-1838 before traveling with the Mormons to Missouri and Illinois. He joined the Mormon Battalion (Company E) ...

United States. Army. Mormon Battalion

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Willis, William W.

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Cooke, Phillip St. George.

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