5fish
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I was looking into Mormons and the Civil War and found the following...
There is a Civil War Monument in Salt Lake City and there is a video about it at this link...
http://www.nothingwavering.org/post/27146/2011-03-07/mormons-and-the-civil-war.html
At this link it is assumed that 400 Mormons served in the Civil War but no details even in the question and answer section...
http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/an-introduction-to-the-mormon-particpation-in-the-civil-war/
This link is very critical of Lincoln and his relationship with the Mormon church ..
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Here is a compare and contrast between Lincoln and Joesph Smith. They were contemporaries....
http://richardkmiller.com/mormonism/joseph-smith-and-abraham-lincoln/
I would say that this man kept the Mormons inline during the Civil War...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Edward_Connor
I could not yet find any direct link with Mormons fighting in the union army in the east. I know there should be at least one company of Mormons that served in the union army form either Illinois, Missouri, or New York but none I could find..
Here is a Mormon Battalion that served in the Mexican American War,,,,,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Battalion
The leader of the Mormon Battalion would become J.E.B. Stuart's father in law...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_St._George_Cooke
I found this interesting side note. We heard about him as a baby but here he is as an adult...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Charbonneau
There is a Civil War Monument in Salt Lake City and there is a video about it at this link...
http://www.nothingwavering.org/post/27146/2011-03-07/mormons-and-the-civil-war.html
At this link it is assumed that 400 Mormons served in the Civil War but no details even in the question and answer section...
http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/an-introduction-to-the-mormon-particpation-in-the-civil-war/
This link is very critical of Lincoln and his relationship with the Mormon church ..
s&ei=kCzQTd2pKoqCtgfrjJXrDQ&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=39e5bf4e97622fe9&biw=968&bih=782
Here is a compare and contrast between Lincoln and Joesph Smith. They were contemporaries....
http://richardkmiller.com/mormonism/joseph-smith-and-abraham-lincoln/
I would say that this man kept the Mormons inline during the Civil War...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Edward_Connor
I could not yet find any direct link with Mormons fighting in the union army in the east. I know there should be at least one company of Mormons that served in the union army form either Illinois, Missouri, or New York but none I could find..
Here is a Mormon Battalion that served in the Mexican American War,,,,,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Battalion
The leader of the Mormon Battalion would become J.E.B. Stuart's father in law...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_St._George_Cooke
I found this interesting side note. We heard about him as a baby but here he is as an adult...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Charbonneau