On May 28, 1857, Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, General-In-Chief of the army ordered the assembling of troops to march to Utah.

Source: Utah Expedition   

The 10th Infantry (lead by Colonel Edmund B. Alexander) arrived at Fort Bridger early in October (1857) and found the Mormons had burned it. A temporary camp called Camp Winfield was established in the vicinity.

Source: Gardner in Annals 27(1)

Majors and Russell put forty-one trains on the road, some in advance of the soldiers, others mixed in with the Army, and still others to the rear. It made an amazing spectacle some twenty miles long. Those in advance reached Fort Laramie late in July. Eighteen, which were billed through to Salt Lake City, rolled on and reached South Pass in the latter part of August. Here they received orders to halt in the vicinity of Green River. Some went on, however, and reached Ham's Fork about fifteen miles north of its junction with Black's Fork, where the advance guard under Colonel E. B. Alexander was encamped at a place call Camp Winfield.

Source: Settle and Settle in Annals 32 (1)

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