The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements

This work offers a chronological narrative and analysis of a volunteer battalion formed from a religious community during the mid-19th-century American conflict, tracing recruitment, terms of enlistment, and leaders' deliberations; it follows the battalion's multi-stage march across the continent, documenting terrain, illness, supply problems, skirmishes, and organizational changes; it records the unit's operations in the far west, discharge and pay, and civil contributions such as aiding settlements, seed distribution, land purchases, and links to early gold discoveries; appendices and contemporary reports supplement the account with maps, diary extracts, and references.