The Battalion as Utah Pioneers 76 Achievements of the Battalion 77 Territory Added to the United States 77 The Gadsden Purchase and the Battalion Route 78 Connection with Irrigation 80 X. The Subsequent Distinction Achieved by the Battalion's Commanding Officers. Colonel Cooke 83 Lieut. A. J. Smith 84 Lieut. George Stoneman 84 XI. Anecdotes. Character of Col. Cooke 85 Col. Cooke and Christoper Layton 85 Col. Cooke and Lot Smith 86 The Colonel, the Mule, and Bigler 87 "Wire, Wire, Wire D----n You Sir!" 88 Col. Cooke's Respect for the Battalion 88 ADDENDA. The Battalion's Monument. The State of Utah's Mormon Battalion Monument Commission 89 Description of the Monument 91 The Duty of the People of Utah 95 The Mormon Battalion I. THE MARCH OF THE BATTALION COMPARED WITH OTHER HISTORICAL MARCHES. "The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding congratulates the Battalion on their safe arrival on the shores of the Pacific ocean, and the conclusion of their march of over two thousand miles. History will be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry." So wrote Lieutenant-Colonel P. St. George Cooke in "Order No. I," from "Head Quarters Mormon Battalion, Mission of San Diego", under date of January 30th, 1847. If Col. Cooke is accurate in his statement--and one has a right to assume that he is, since he was a graduate of the United States Military academy of West Point, and hence versed in the history of such military incidents--then the march of this Battalion is a very wonderful performance. For if history might be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry when Col. Cooke wrote his "Order No. I," then certainly no march of infantry since that time has equaled it. The only other historical marches that are comparable with the Mormon Battalions' march are Xenophon's and Doniphan's, the former in ancient, the latter in modern times.