General Patrick Edward Connor, commander at Fort Douglas, reports to his superiors: "The people of this Territory, under the implicit guidance of Brigham Young, are steeped in disloyalty and omit no opportunity of making display of it and injuring the Government by every means in their power."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
The Saints and Union: Utah Territory during the Civil War, by E. B. Long is the ONLY source for this quote (p.238). EBL's original source is the Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies of the War of the Rebellion.
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