Their homes and fields and orchards might be given back to the desert from which they had been won; but never to the Gentile invaders.
To the south the wagons crept, day after day, to some other unknown desert which their prophet should choose, and where, if the Lord willed, they would again charm orchards and gardens and green fields from the gray, parched barrens.
Late in June the army of Johnston descended Emigration Canon, passed through the echoing streets of the all but deserted city and camped on the River Jordan.

But, to the deep despair of one observer, these invaders committed no depredation or overt act.

After resting inoffensively two days on the Jordan, they marched forty miles south to Cedar Valley, where Camp Floyd was established.
Thus, no one fully comprehending how it had come about, peace was seen suddenly to have been restored.

The people, from Brigham down, had been offered a free pardon for all past treasons and seditions if they would return to their allegiance to the Federal government; the new officers of the Territory were installed, sons of perdition in the seats of the Lord's mighty; and sermons of wrath against Uncle Sam ceased for the moment to resound in the tabernacle.

Early in July, Brigham ordered the people to return to their homes.