Title: Future Civil War General plans Oregon troop route to the Utah “Mormon War”, Letter Author: Newell, Robert, & Rufus Ingalls Place: Publisher: Date: 1857 Description: Autograph Note Signed by Ingalls as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster U.S. Army, Fort Vancouver, Washington. Accompanying a 4-page copy of a letter from Robert Newell Champoeg, Oregon Territory, November 31, 1857, docketed “Relative to Overland route to Great Salt Lake”. Ingalls' note lauds Newell as “one of the most reliable persons on the Coast – is an old traveler over the interior and writes from actual observation.” In the early months of conflict between US Army troops and Brigham Young’s Mormon Legion – after Utah was declared to be in rebellion against the United States and Governor Young was indicted for treason – 39 year-old Captain Ingalls, stationed in Washington Territory with his friend Ulysses S. Grant, asked Oregon pioneer and ex-fur trapper Newell for advice on the best troop route to the scene of hostilities. Newell, who, as a fur trapper in the 1820s had “passed through the country on snowshoes”, obliged with a long detailed letter, copied here for Ingalls to distribute. Newell suggested a spring route from Walla Walla “over the Blue Mountains by the Emigrant Route to Fort Boise…up Snake River…thence to Salt Lake”. Such a large troop movement would both bring “to a close…this Indian War now so much disturbing the officials of Oregon” while securing a strategic road of great value to the United States. “This route must be used; if we don’t use it, the Mormons will”, linking their farms to the Russian and British possessions in the north. “The time has come when we must do something with Bro. Brigham Young”, the “Mormon fire brand”, a “fanatic” who “fights hard”. Ingalls’ note, attesting to Newell’s first-hand knowledge, was based on his own personal experience; after being present at the US “capture” of California during the Mexican-American War, he had himself traversed Utah, accompanying the Steptoe Expedition across the continent from Kansas to the Pacific Coast. (He is well-known to Americana collectors for his 1855 map on the different routes taken by Steptoe’s troops overland from Salt Lake to San Francisco). Six years later, Ingalls saw distinguished service under Grant at Gettysburg and many other battles of the Civil War. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276180
Title: Future Civil War General plans Oregon troop route to the Utah “Mormon War”, Letter Author: Newell, Robert, & Rufus Ingalls Place: Publisher: Date: 1857 Description: Autograph Note Signed by Ingalls as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster U.S. Army, Fort Vancouver, Washington. Accompanying a 4-page copy of a letter from Robert Newell Champoeg, Oregon Territory, November 31, 1857, docketed “Relative to Overland route to Great Salt Lake”. Ingalls' note lauds Newell as “one of the most reliable persons on the Coast – is an old traveler over the interior and writes from actual observation.” In the early months of conflict between US Army troops and Brigham Young’s Mormon Legion – after Utah was declared to be in rebellion against the United States and Governor Young was indicted for treason – 39 year-old Captain Ingalls, stationed in Washington Territory with his friend Ulysses S. Grant, asked Oregon pioneer and ex-fur trapper Newell for advice on the best troop route to the scene of hostilities. Newell, who, as a fur trapper in the 1820s had “passed through the country on snowshoes”, obliged with a long detailed letter, copied here for Ingalls to distribute. Newell suggested a spring route from Walla Walla “over the Blue Mountains by the Emigrant Route to Fort Boise…up Snake River…thence to Salt Lake”. Such a large troop movement would both bring “to a close…this Indian War now so much disturbing the officials of Oregon” while securing a strategic road of great value to the United States. “This route must be used; if we don’t use it, the Mormons will”, linking their farms to the Russian and British possessions in the north. “The time has come when we must do something with Bro. Brigham Young”, the “Mormon fire brand”, a “fanatic” who “fights hard”. Ingalls’ note, attesting to Newell’s first-hand knowledge, was based on his own personal experience; after being present at the US “capture” of California during the Mexican-American War, he had himself traversed Utah, accompanying the Steptoe Expedition across the continent from Kansas to the Pacific Coast. (He is well-known to Americana collectors for his 1855 map on the different routes taken by Steptoe’s troops overland from Salt Lake to San Francisco). Six years later, Ingalls saw distinguished service under Grant at Gettysburg and many other battles of the Civil War. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276180
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