Good Ethics

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MORMON BATTALION AND ITS MONUMENT 237

The campaign for funds will close on the 30th day of January, the date of the arrival of the Battalion at San Diego. The document is dated: Headquarters Mormon Battalion, Mission of San Diego, January 30, 1847.

(Orders No. 1)

The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding congratulates the Battalion on their safe arrival on the shore of the Pacific ocean, and the conclusion of their march of over 2,000 miles. History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry. Half of it has been through a wilderness where nothing but savages and wild beasts are found, or deserts where, for want of water, there is no living creature. There, with almost hopeless labor, we have dug