---
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: 15
published: 1841-06-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“General Orders,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 15 (June 1, 1841): 435."
printed_title: General Orders
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-06-01_2_15
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n15.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_1841-06-01_2_15
start_page: 435
end_page: 435
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_1841-06-01_2_15
  publication_year: 1841
---

# General Orders

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The 1st Company, (riflemen) 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Cohort, will be attached to the escort contemplated in the general orders of the 4th inst., for the 3rd of July next.

In forming the Legion, the Adjutant will observe the rank of companies as follows; to wit:

1st Cohort-the flying artillery first, the lancers next, and the riflemen next-visiting companies of dragoons next the lancers, an cavalry next the dragoons:

2nd Cohort-the artillery first, the lancers next, the riflemen next, the light-infantry next, and the infantry next-visiting companies in their appropriate places on the right of the troops of their own grade: the ranking company of the 2nd cohort will be formed on the left of said cohort,-the next on the left of the right, the next on the right of the left, and so on to the center. The escort will be formed on the right of the forces.

Joseph Smith,

Lieutenant General.

John C. Bennett,

Major General.