Category:Mormon Battalion

The Mormon Battalion was a volunteer military unit composed of over 500 LDS men. Brigham Young was seeking aid from the federal government to move his followers west. Enlistment provided a means to obtain funds to aid the Mormon pioneers. The volunteers served from July 1856 to July 1847, during the Mexican-American War, and marched nearly 2000 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego. Some families of battalion members traveled with the unit.