(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been published, but this is the first detailed study from a strictly military point of view. The battalion of Latter-day Saints, all volunteers, followed Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny’s Army of the West to California from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1846. Reports usually reveal that the LDS soldiers fought no battles but made one of the longest (1,9
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