• Arza initially traveled to Utah as a returning Mormon Battalion veteran in the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments in 1847. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 20

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 30

Sources

• Hinckley, Arza Erastus, Autobiography [ca. 1874].
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 244-45.