William Set by Harney. National Archives.
A Crisis Averted? General Harney and the Change in Command of the Utah Expedition BY W I L F O R D H I L L L E C H E M I N A N T
1857 THE U N I T E D STATES ARMY assigned the command of its Utah Expedition to Gen. William Selby Harney who promptly announced that to solve the Utah problem "he would capture Brigham Young and the twelve apostles and execute them in a summary manner and winter in the temple of the Latter-day Saints." 1 He was I N MAY
Dr. LeCheminant is a physician in Bountiful, Utah. 1 Logan U. Reavis, The Life and Military Services of General William Selby Harney (St. Louis, 1878), pp. 276-77.
