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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connor , Patrick Edward 1820 -1891 (search)
Connor, Patrick Edward 1820-1891
Military officer; born in Ireland, March 17, 1820; came to the United States and was educated in New York City; served in the war with Mexico and then engaged in business in California.
When the Civil War broke out he recruited a band of 200 men and was ordered to Utah to drive plundering Indians out of the overland routes of travel, and to check the threatened revolt among the Mormons.
After marching 140 miles he fell upon a fortified camp of 300 Indians in Washington Territory and destroyed the whole band.
At the close of the war he received the brevet of majorgeneral.
Later he commanded 2,000 cavalry to punish the Sioux and Arapahoe Indians for their robberies.
He met and defeated the latter at Tongue River in August, 1865.
He died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 18, 1891.