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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 21: polygamy. (search)
satisfied with these young and comely women, Stenhouse was looking for another wife ; and Sister Fanny tried her best to make me think he was doing right in following the celestial law. To-day she puts into my hands a volume written by her pen, in which plurality of wives is pictured from a Gentile point of view. The fall of these conspicuous advocates of plurality is due to the friction caused by that celestial law. Clara, one of Sister Fanny's daughters, is the favourite wife of Joseph A. Young, the prophet's eldest son. The Stenhouses were, therefore, very near the throne. To get still nearer, Elder Stenhouse proposed to Zina, one of the prophet's daughters. The position of this girl was passing strange. By birth she was a child of Brigham Young, by grace a child of Joseph Smith. Her mother, Zina Huntingdon, is one of four holy women, who pretend to have been the secret wives of Joseph Smith, and as the prophet's widows live in proxy wife-hood with Brigham Young. Brigha
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 42: batteries Eleven and Twelve and Fort Rice. Battle at Boydton Plank Road. (search)
October 21, 1864. First Andrew Sharpshooters, consolidated with Nineteenth Massachusetts, by S. O. 289, W. D., A. G. O. Co. K.Sergt. Chas. Harrington. Corp. Samuel D. Chase. Private Marcus P. Arnold. Private Noah Bentley. Private Ed. Bestwick. Private Geo. E. Franklin. Private Frank Matto. Private A. G. Plympton. Private Lott I. Randall. Private Thomas C. Smith. Private Wm. H. Warner. Private Henry L. Wheelock. Private Chas. O. Wolcott. Private James F. Woodruff. Private Joseph A. Young. The regiment was, on the 1st of November, ordered up to the front to form part of the garrison of Fort Steadman and Battery 10, the most important works on the line, and in close proximity (270 yards) to the enemy's. The regiment remained there during the month of November, which was very rainy. Picket duty was very hard, and, as was the custom, one-third of the men were always under arms. The life was somewhat exciting. The officers living in tents, while all the others