Item #3686 1849 Mormon Battalion Report from the Secretary of War. Philip St. George Cooke.
Cooke, Philip St. George.

1849 Mormon Battalion Report from the Secretary of War

85, [1] pp. Communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 21st February, 1849, a copy of the official journal of Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, from Santa Fe to San Diego. March 19, 1849.
The Mormon Battalion, the only religion based unit in U.S. Military history, served during the Mexican War. A volunteer unit commanded by regular U.S. Army officers, it made an epic march from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, opening a southern wagon route to California that helped secure new territory in the American Southwest. Item #3686

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