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  • ...rts, including [[John C. Bennett]], M.D., the [[Illinois]] [[quartermaster general]]. "[[Lieutenant General]]" Smith and "[[Major General]]" Bennett became its commanders,
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  • ...brethren learned that {{page break|211|top}} Captain Van Vliet, Assistant Quartermaster, was coming on to purchase lumber and such things as might be needed for th ...e Republican, or Free State, and the pro-slavery parties; for which reason General Harney, with the cavalry, a portion of the infantry, and, I think, one or t
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  • ...t of someone seeking to use religion for temporal power. As quartermaster general, Bennett also arranged the transfer of ammunition and light cannon for the
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  • ...s really going on. Small wonder that the state of Illinois made Bennett a quartermaster, or that the Mormons were glad to have such an accomplished citizen in Nauv Bennett was appointed quartermaster general for Illinois on July 20, 1840. Five days later, he wrote to Joseph Smith a
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  • ...y the Mormon people. Prior to that, and subsequently, he was Quartermaster-General of Illinois. Bennett professed great sympathy for the Saints. He joined the
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  • ...panned decades and involved sitting presidents, cabinet members, attorneys general, federal district attorneys, federal marshals, territorial marshals, and mo Army Quartermaster Captain Stewart Van Vliet came to Salt Lake City on 8 September and left af
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  • ...s really going on. Small wonder that the state of Illinois made Bennett a quartermaster, or that the Mormons were glad to have such an accomplished citizen in Nauv Bennett was appointed quartermaster general for Illinois on July 20, 1840. Five days later, he wrote to Joseph Smith a
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  • ;14 September 1840:John C. Bennett, quartermaster of Illinois, arrives in Nauvoo, is baptized, and begins helping to draft a ...of Nauvoo. Joseph was approved by the state of Illinois as “Lieutenant General,” which was a fairly high rank (no one but George Washington held a rank
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