1862 - Colonel Patrick E. Conner and his "California Volunteers" march into Salt Lake City, Utah, and set up camp on the hillside above the city near present day University of Utah. In 1878 the name was changed to Fort Douglas named for Stephen A Douglas.  President Abraham Lincoln had received reports that the Saints were incapable of guarding the overland mail route through the Intermountain West and had sent Conner, an avowed anti-Mormon, with his soldiers,  to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. It is said that Colonel Conner kept a cannon pointed at Brigham Young's home in the city below.