DRAGOONS:
The Life of the Dragoon Enlisted Men by J. Patrick Hughes, Ph.D.


     National Archive search requests
          Pension files (not found)
          Bounty Land files (not found)
          Military Register of Enlistments (film # 350,331 p. 71)
                (Entry 199, page 71, volume 51)
               Name: FLAVEL, Thomas
               Where Born: Ireland
               Age: 26
               Occupation: Teacher
               Enlisted at: Port Lawrence, Ohio
               Enlisted by: Captain Hatch
               Enlisted for: 5 years
               Eyes: Blue
               Hair: Brown
               Complexion: Fair
               Height: 5 feet 7 1/2 inches
               Regiment: 2nd Dragoons, Company G
               Discharged: 12 June 1860
               Cause of Discharge: Expiration of service
               Discharged at: Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, a private

     "To Utah With The 2nd Dragoons" by Harold B. Langley
          source listed in bibliography:
               Muster Roll of Company G
               Second Dragoons
               Regular Army Muster Rolls
               Inspection Returns
               1821-1860, Second Dragoons
               Box 112, Record Group 94 (Civil War)
               National Archives (Washington D.C.)
          Thomas Flavel is listed as an individual on extra duty
               (film # 497,708) 2/6 Pvt Flavell, in ... Clerk in ...

     History: "Annals of Wyoming", March of 2d Dragoons [Report of
               Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke on the
               March of the 2d Dragoons from Fort Leavenworth
               to Fort Bridger in 1857] pp. 43-60

CAMP FLOYD:

     Newspaper: "Valley Tan" ed. Kirk Anderson
          (film # Va. 24)
          References to social life at Camp Floyd but very little
          about enlisted men.  No references to Flavel or any
          marriages found.

     One account states that a Catholic Chaplain, Peter DiSmith,
          joined Johnston's Army on 31 May 1858, however the 
          Catholic Diocese has no record of him having been there
          at that time.

     Father Bonaventure Keller
          To some it is surprising that there were enough Catholics here in 1909 to have a
 diocese, but Catholicism has a long history in what is now Utah. Undoubtedly, they
 celebrated the first mass during the Dominguez- Escalante expedition of 1776.
 Also, many mountain men and explorers were Catholic. There is a reference by an anti-papist
 officer of a Catholic clergyman Franciscan Father Bonaventure Keller,
 present at Camp Floyd in June of 1859. This priest reportedly performed 26 baptisms and
 three marriages during his six-month stay. Also, he celebrated Utah's first recorded
 requiem mass for Private John McKay in July 1859. After Keller's short stay a permanent
 stream of Catholic clergy came to the territory. Generally, they were assigned to
 military
 posts that Irish immigrant soldiers heavily populated. Yet, there were few
 secular parishes. 
     
     

     Camp Floyd Account Book
          (film # 979.2/Z99/v12)
          No Flavels listed on any of 400 pages
          page 59 lists Lt. Buford
          page 110-111 lists Capt. Turnley

     Letter from Buford to Turnley (taken from Bowen history of
          Mary Jones Flavel Bona)

                                           Camp Floyd, Utah Territory
                                              Aug. 20, 1860

          Campt. J. T. Turnley
          Ass't QuarterMaster, U.S. Army

            Sir;
                Having been requested by Flavel to give him a
                recommendation to you, I have to state that he
                was under my charge on extra duty as a clerk both
                in the Commisary and Quarter Master's Department
                for over two years;  that I always found him faithful
                and attentive to his duty;  and that at the time the
                Quarter Master Sergeant of the Second Dragoons, and
                his laborers, were dismissed from the Dragoon
                Commisary for pilfering, Flavel was the only man left
                of the old hands retained on extra duty.  I believe
                Flavel to be perfectly upright.  He was the most
                correct clerk I have ever had under my charge.

                                        Respectfully
                                        Your Obedient Servent,
                                        Jno. Buford
                                        Cap't 2nd Dragoons

     Extensive archealogical work is being done by BYU
          Professor Dale Berge.

     "Camp Floyd in Retrospect" by Don Richard Mathis
          contains maps of Camp Floyd showing locations of 
          Commisary, G Company, Quarter Master

     "Journal of Captain Albert Tracy (1858-1860)
          page 42 has a reference to 2 Welsh Women

     "Camp in the sagebrush: Camp Floyd, Utah, 1858-1861" by
          Thomas G. Alexander & Leonard J. Arrington [Utah 
          Historical Quarterly]

     "Charles A. Scott's Diary Of The Utah Expedition, 1857 -
          1861" [Utah Historical Quarterly]

     Bibliography from University of Utah Library
          Johnston, Conner and The Mormons
          Camp Floyd in Retrospect
          State Department Territorial Papers, Utah Series
          The Utah Expedition
          Utah Expedition, 1857-1858 "Letters of Capt. Jesse A 
               Gove, 10th Inf."
          County Government of the Provisional State of Deseret
          U.S. Soldiers Invade Utah
          Early Days in Cedar Valley
          Utah Expedition "Account by a Wagon Master"
          Utah Expedition, a documentary account
          Journal of Captain Albert Tracy (1858-1860)
          The Utah War
          The Mormon War
          The Mormon Conflict
          Army Exploration of the American West

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