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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
York for California, with a colony of Mormons, of which Sam Brannan was the leader, and we found them there on our arrival i48, we found about three hundred of them there at work. Sam Brannan was on hand as the high-priest, collecting the tithes. generally, when he inquired, Governor, what business has Sam Brannan to collect the tithes here? Clark admitted that BrannanBrannan was the head of the Mormon church in California, and he was simply questioning as to Brannan's right, as high-priest, to comBrannan's right, as high-priest, to compel the Mormons to pay him the regular tithes. Colonel Mason answered, Brannan has a perfect right to collect the tax, if yoBrannan has a perfect right to collect the tax, if you Mormons are fools enough to pay it. Then, said Clark, I for one won't pay it any longer. Colonel Mason added: This is pub that from that time the payment of the tithes ceased, but Brannan had already collected enough money wherewith to hire Sutteerchants and traders of that winter, at Sacramento, were Sam Brannan and Hensley, Reading & Co. For several years the site wa
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
bridge by night, cross over, and attack Bragg's right flank on that part of the ridge abutting on Chickamauga Creek, near the tunnel; and he proposed that we should go at once to look at the ground. In company with Generals Thomas, W. F. Smith, Brannan, and others, we crossed by the flying-bridge, rode back of the hills some four miles, left our horses, and got on a hill overlooking the whole ground about the mouth of the Chickamauga River, and across to the Missionary Hills near the tunnel. Kelly's Ferry, and rode into Chattanooga on the 15th. I then learned the part assigned me in the coming drama, was supplied with the necessary maps and information, and rode, during the 16th, in company with Generals Grant, Thomas, W. F. Smith, Brannan, and others, to the positions occupied on the west bank of the Tennessee, from which could be seen the camps of the enemy, compassing Chattanooga and the line of Missionary Hills, with its terminus on Chickamauga Creek, the point that I was expe