Son of Erastus Dodge & Melissa Morgan
Married Sarah Gulley
Married Marian Wallace Clark
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Dodge, Augustus Erastus, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Dec. 6. 1822, in Jefferson County, New York, a son of Erastus Dodge and Melissa Morgan. He was baptized March 15, 1835, in Missouri, by Jacob Gates, worked on the Kirtland Temple, was a prisoner with his father and others at the surrender of Far West for eight or ten days, and was one of those that were driven from their homes in winter and suffered much. His father died in 1843 and his mother in 1845. He assisted in building the Nauvoo House and Temple; helped William Clayton and others to convey Church property to Mr. Pisgah and arrived in Council Bluffs July 15, 1846, started the next day on his march to California with the Battalion, and when crossing the Arkansas River he had his ankle mashed, but continued down the Rio Grande and on to California, striking the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. After staying there for six weeks he marched to Los Angeles where the members of the Battalion were discharged in 1847. He crossed the Coast Range to Sacramento, then across the Sierra Nevada and the desert to Fort Hall, and from there to Salt Lake City, arriving Dec. 23, 1847. He helped establish the ferry at Green River in 1849, settled Sanpete Valley that year, and was called to settle Dixie in 1861.
AUGUSTUS E. DODGE, Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Sarah Gulley
Married Marian Wallace Clark
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Dodge, Augustus Erastus, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Dec. 6. 1822, in Jefferson County, New York, a son of Erastus Dodge and Melissa Morgan. He was baptized March 15, 1835, in Missouri, by Jacob Gates, worked on the Kirtland Temple, was a prisoner with his father and others at the surrender of Far West for eight or ten days, and was one of those that were driven from their homes in winter and suffered much. His father died in 1843 and his mother in 1845. He assisted in building the Nauvoo House and Temple; helped William Clayton and others to convey Church property to Mr. Pisgah and arrived in Council Bluffs July 15, 1846, started the next day on his march to California with the Battalion, and when crossing the Arkansas River he had his ankle mashed, but continued down the Rio Grande and on to California, striking the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. After staying there for six weeks he marched to Los Angeles where the members of the Battalion were discharged in 1847. He crossed the Coast Range to Sacramento, then across the Sierra Nevada and the desert to Fort Hall, and from there to Salt Lake City, arriving Dec. 23, 1847. He helped establish the ferry at Green River in 1849, settled Sanpete Valley that year, and was called to settle Dixie in 1861.
AUGUSTUS E. DODGE, Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
* Mormon Battalion members
Son of Erastus Dodge & Melissa Morgan
Married Sarah Gulley
Married Marian Wallace Clark
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Dodge, Augustus Erastus, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Dec. 6. 1822, in Jefferson County, New York, a son of Erastus Dodge and Melissa Morgan. He was baptized March 15, 1835, in Missouri, by Jacob Gates, worked on the Kirtland Temple, was a prisoner with his father and others at the surrender of Far West for eight or ten days, and was one of those that were driven from their homes in winter and suffered much. His father died in 1843 and his mother in 1845. He assisted in building the Nauvoo House and Temple; helped William Clayton and others to convey Church property to Mr. Pisgah and arrived in Council Bluffs July 15, 1846, started the next day on his march to California with the Battalion, and when crossing the Arkansas River he had his ankle mashed, but continued down the Rio Grande and on to California, striking the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. After staying there for six weeks he marched to Los Angeles where the members of the Battalion were discharged in 1847. He crossed the Coast Range to Sacramento, then across the Sierra Nevada and the desert to Fort Hall, and from there to Salt Lake City, arriving Dec. 23, 1847. He helped establish the ferry at Green River in 1849, settled Sanpete Valley that year, and was called to settle Dixie in 1861.
AUGUSTUS E. DODGE, Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Sarah Gulley
Married Marian Wallace Clark
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Dodge, Augustus Erastus, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Dec. 6. 1822, in Jefferson County, New York, a son of Erastus Dodge and Melissa Morgan. He was baptized March 15, 1835, in Missouri, by Jacob Gates, worked on the Kirtland Temple, was a prisoner with his father and others at the surrender of Far West for eight or ten days, and was one of those that were driven from their homes in winter and suffered much. His father died in 1843 and his mother in 1845. He assisted in building the Nauvoo House and Temple; helped William Clayton and others to convey Church property to Mr. Pisgah and arrived in Council Bluffs July 15, 1846, started the next day on his march to California with the Battalion, and when crossing the Arkansas River he had his ankle mashed, but continued down the Rio Grande and on to California, striking the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. After staying there for six weeks he marched to Los Angeles where the members of the Battalion were discharged in 1847. He crossed the Coast Range to Sacramento, then across the Sierra Nevada and the desert to Fort Hall, and from there to Salt Lake City, arriving Dec. 23, 1847. He helped establish the ferry at Green River in 1849, settled Sanpete Valley that year, and was called to settle Dixie in 1861.
AUGUSTUS E. DODGE, Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
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