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5898
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English
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Fort Douglas and the Soldiers of the Wasatch : A Final Salute
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1968
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8
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449-62
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"In July, 1967, orders from Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to deactivate Fort Douglas were carried out and an important as well as colorful period of Utah's history came to a close. It had been 105 years earlier, with the Civil War fifteen months old, that Colonel Patrick Edward Connor, a veteran of Buena Vista during the Mexican War, assembled troops of the Second and Third California Volunteers near Stockton, California, and prepared them for a long march across the Nevada desert. The Utah Column finally lumbered forward on July 12, 1862, the day after Henry W. Halleck assumed command as general-in-chief of the United States Army." [Publisher's abstract]