Brigham Young “ordered” no one. It was a volunteer company. He did have to do some persuading to get enough men to join because there weren’t enough volunteers originally.
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Grasshopper, volunteers are NEVER “persuaded”...
Thats why they are called “volunteers”
They VOLUNTEER..
and there is no doubt the kind of threatening “persuading” that Brigham Young would have done...
How many times are you going to try to provoke oremites to argue with you without a repsonse? It looks like he/she stated some facts that not only disputed this article, but also corrected some false info by others posting. Stay classy.