Reader comments: Group honors Utah's ties to the Civil War

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Curtis Allen | 8:21 a.m. May 26, 2008
Col. Phillip St. George Cooke was not Johnston's replacement. When Johnston was transferred in March 1860, he turned the command over to Lt. Col. Charles F. Smith of the 10th Infantry. Smith commanded the department for nearly a year until Cooke returned from a European trip. Smith was then trnsferred to Washington DC and Cooke took over and began the process of deactivating Fort Crittenden, the name he had given Camp Floyd when John B. Floyd "went south."

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Utah Civil War Association stages re-enactments at various locations, including a past event at Fort Buenaventura in Ogden. (Deseret Morning News archives)
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Utah Civil War Association stages re-enactments at various locations, including a past event at Fort Buenaventura in Ogden.

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