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This company was composed of 24 returning Mormon Battalion veterans along with 4 battalion wives and 1 child. It also included 43 people who had traveled on the ship Brooklyn. They traveled from Pleasant Valley, California, over the newly-constructed Carson Pass wagon road over the Sierra Mountains to Salt Lake Valley.