---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 12
published: 1841-04-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“The Procession,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 12 (April 15, 1841): 381."
printed_title: THE PROCESSION.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-04-15_2_12
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n12.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-04-15_2_12
start_page: 381
end_page: 381
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-04-15_2_12
  publication_year: 1841
---

# The Procession

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Immediately after the review, Gen. Bennett organized the procession, to march to the foundation of the Temple, in the following order; to wit:

Lieut. Gen. Smith, Brig. Generals Law & Smith, Aids-de-Camp, & conspicuous strangers,

General Staff, Band, 2nd Cohort, (foot troops,) Ladies eight abreast,

Gentlemen, eight abreast, 1st Cohort, (horse troops)

Owing to the vast numbers who joined in the procession, it was a considerable length of time before the whole could be organized.

The procession then began to move forward in order, and on their arrival at the Temple block, the Generals with their staffs and the distinguished strangers present, took their position inside of the foundation, the ladies formed on the outside immediately next the walls, the gentlemen and infantry behind, and the cavalry in the rear.

The assembly being stationed, the choristers, under the superintendance [superintendent] of B. S. Wilber, sung [sang] an appropriate hymn.

Prest. Rigdon, then ascended the platform, which had been prepared for the purpose, and delivered a suitable