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English
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Article in the Weekly Houston, Texas, Democratic Telegraph & Texas Register, Volume XII, No. 29, 19 June 1847, p. 1
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Nauvoo Journal
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Spring 1999
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11
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no.1
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45-48
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Lewis Dent was a non-Mormon civilian clerk to the paymaster of the Mormon Battalion. He wrote this letter to his brother only a few days after the Battalion arrived in San Diego. He describes the experiences of the Battalion on their march beginning at a point about 300 miles south of Santa Fe. It is a detailed account.