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was modelled after the Roman legion. The men were well disciplined, brave, and eflicient. These troops carried their name to Utah, where they were reor- ganized in May 1857.

Though all are soldiers, there are no dandy warriors in their midst. Each one returns after drill to his occupation — to his farm, factory, or merchandise. Among other workshops are a porcelain factory es- tablished by a Staffordshire company, two steam saw- mills, a steam flouring-mill, a foundry, and a tool- factory. A joint-stock company is organized under the style of the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufactur- ing Association. Just outside the city is a commu- nity farm, worked by the poor for their own benefit; to each family in the city is allotted one acre of ground; the system of community of property does not obtain.

Most of the people in and about Nauvoo are Mormons, but not all. The population is made up chiefly from the farming districts of the United States and the manufacturing districts of England; though uneducated, unpolished, and superstitious, they are for the most part intelligent, industrious, competent, honest, and sincere.^ With a shrewd head to direct,

enstos, L. Wood worth; captains, D. B. Huntington, Samuel Hicks, Amos Da- vis, Marcellus Bates, Charles Allen, L. N". Scovil, W. M. AUred, Justus Morse, John F. OIney, Darwiu Chase, C. M. Kreymyer, and others. 'Col. A. P. Rock- wood was drill-master. Rockwood was then a captain, but was afterward pro- moted to colonel of the militia, or host of Israel. I was then fourth corporal of a company. The people were regularly drilled and taught military tactics, BO that they would be ready to act when the time came for returning to .Jackson county, the promised land of our inheritance.' Lee's Mormonism, 112. 'Re- views were held from time to time, and flags presented, and Joseph appeared on all those occasions with a splendid staff, in all the pomp and circumstance of a full-blown military commander.' Ferris' Utah and the Mormonst, 100-1. 'At the last dress parade of the legion, he was accompanied in the field by a display of ten of his spiritual wishes or concubines, dressed in a line uniform, and mounted on elegant white horses.' Turlrr's Mormonism, 170. After the force reached Utah it was 'regularly drilled by competent officers, many of whom served in Mexico with the Mormon battalion under Gen. W. Scott. They are well armed, and perfectly fearless.' Hyde's Mormonism, 1S3. See further Times and Seasons, ii. 321-2, 417-18, 435, 517; iii. 054, 700-1, 718, 733-4, 921; Stenhouse's Tell It All, 30G; Deseret News, April 15 and July 1, 1857, July G, 1859; Gunnison's Mormons, 133; Smucker'a Hist. Mor., 149; Kidder's Mormonism, 182-9.


 * Say3 the St Louis Atlas of September 1841: The people of Nauvoo 'hava