Mormon Battalion members gather for a photo at the 50-year anniversary of their enlistment with the U.S. Army. Kristina Kaufman works on the Mormon Battalion Project in the Center for Family History ...

This is a war story unlike any other. It’s about a fighting force of nearly 500 men who were drafted, in a very real sense, not by the president of their nation but by the prophet of their faith.

May 26—BUDAGHERS — The 20-foot sandstone monument topped by a steel wagon wheel looked awfully lonely on a recent Saturday morning. Commuters who've driven past it enough on Interstate 25 — standing ...

On July 16, 1846, 500 soldiers in the U.S. Army’s segregated Mormon Battalion set out from Iowa on what would become a six-month, 2,000-mile march to the Mission San Diego de Alcala. Due to illness ...

The 175th anniversary of the longest U.S. Army infantry march in history was celebrated in Old Town San Diego on Jan. 29. A little-known event in American history, it played a significant role in the ...

On the morning of January 13, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) Commander Col. John Nelson spoke at a ceremony commemorating the U.S. Army of the West Mormon Battalion’s 1847 crossing of the ...

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Amidst the prairie dotted with sagebrush, yucca and trees, two ruts cut deep into the ground, through the sandstone. As wagons crossed the prairie westward bound, they carved into the rock overtime, ...