Item #38968 REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING, IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE, OF THE 21ST FEBRUARY, 1849, A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHILIP ST. GEORGE COOKE, FROM SANTA FE TO SAN DIEGO, &C. Philip St. George Cooke.

REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING, IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE, OF THE 21ST FEBRUARY, 1849, A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHILIP ST. GEORGE COOKE, FROM SANTA FE TO SAN DIEGO, &C.

[Washington]: Special Session. SD2, 1849. 85, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, else Very Good.

"This report is the first extended publication of the journal of the officer commanding the Mormon Battalion as it marched from New Mexico to California" [Wagner-Camp]. It is "the first publication of the journal in full" [Cowan]. "Only extracts from it had been included in the 1847 edition of Emory's Reconnaissance" [Howes].
"The commander's own day-by-day narrative of the harrowing winter march of the Mormon Battalion through New Mexico, Arizona and California" [Eberstadt].
FIRST EDITION. Wagner-Camp 165. Howes C739. Graff 870. Cowan 142. 114 Eberstadt 938. 36 Decker 98-99. Holliday Sale 229. Item #38968

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