<​February 4​> of the State of , within the City of , assembled at the office of Joseph Smith on Thursday at ten o’clock A.M. the 4th. day of February 1841— Present Quarter Master General of the State of , Lieutenant Colonel ; Captains , , , , , . First Lieutenants, , , , , Amos Davis. Second Lieutenants , , , , , ; Third Lieutenants , and . The Court was [HC 4:295] called to order by General — — — — — On motion, Joseph Smith and , were requested to sit in the Court. The Court Martial then proceeded to the — — — — — — election of the General Officers of the Legion, whereupon Joseph Smith was duly elected Lieutenant General; Major General — — — — — — — — — — — — — Colonel was elected Brigadier General of the First Cohort, and Lieutenant Colonel , Brigadier General of the Second Cohort, — — — — — — — — by — — unanimous vote of the Court Martial— Lieutenant General Joseph Smith after being duly sworn into Office — — — — — appointed the following named persons for his staff, to wit, Captain to be drill Officer, Captains , and , Aids-de-camp, and , , C. M. Kreymeyer, , , , , , , , , and — Guards <​and Assistant Aids-de-Camp​>— The Legion at its organization was composed of six Companies.”