[second pass LKA]
[Mormon Battalion / MB CR 1234 1 B20F20 Hunt 1846 217 & 10 13-18 / K 4 of 4 MB Cr 1234 1 B20F20 Hunt to BY 1847 5 14 discharge]

I Embrace the present oppor-
tunity of sending you a few lines to let you know a
little of the Movements of the battalion.  I have seen Genl
Kearny, he has seen the battalion and has given them a
very excellent character.  I have had a very [...] good
deal of Conversation with him in regard to the future disposal
of the battalion.  We are now about 500 miles South of
Monterey.  He told me that it was altogether probable we
should stay here till our time expired and here be discharged.
He Manifested a great anxiety to have the battalion mustered
for another year. or at least, the young men of it.  All the men
are against it.
     Since we started, all the officers, with one or two exceptions
have been well united: nor would there have been anything
but union amongst us, had not a few unquiet Spirits stirred
up mal-contentment and dissvsion through the battalion of
Course aiming their weightiest blows at me.  This has caused
me much anxiety and troubles.  I have all the time done the best
I knew, and used every endeavor to console the men and
make the burthens laid on them by the officers of the regular
army as light as I could. but every good intention was con-
strued into evil. and of all characters I was the most vile.
     As to the history of our march, [-----------------------------
----------------------] Brother Willey who shall be one of
an escort of the thirteen men, to go