United States. Army. Mormon Battalion
Organization
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Martin papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 3300
Scope and Contents
Photocopy and typescript of a letter from Martin to John Melling, dated April 9, 1849. Letter is also signed by a "John Case" or "John Cane." It mentions briefly the expulsion from Nauvoo and travel to Council Bluffs as well as his being enlisted into the Mormon Battalion. Details all the mileage of his journeys as a member of the Battalion and finally his release and entry into the Salt Lake Valley. Mentions the death and burial of his daughter Eliza Susannah. Also bears his testimony of...
Dates:
1849 April 9
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 1, 1841-1855
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043552], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1134
Scope and Contents
Volume includes an autobiographical sketch for Rogers, from his birth in 1819 to life in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, as an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes copies of patriarchal blessings for Rogers and some of his family members, including his parents, received in Kirtland and Nauvoo. More frequent entries start in 1843, during Rogers' mission to New Jersey from April 1843 to December 1844. Includes details about the exodus from Nauvoo to...
Dates:
1841-1855
Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 1
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS1134_B1_F1
Dates:
1841-1855
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Steele papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 528
Scope and Contents
Contains diaries, notes, correspondence, dictionaries, surveys, bonds, certificates, horoscopes, and military orders. The correspondence was to and from John Steele, other family members, and acquaintances. The materials document the activities of the Steele family, John's militia and Mormon Battalion activities, his missions to England and to the Indians, his migration to Utah, and his life in Utah and Nevada. Also included is a dictionary of the Southern Paiute language created by John...
Dates:
1816-1989
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Thomas L. Kane correspondence with other Mormons, 1846-1882
Sub-Series — Box 16: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550787]
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 9
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846-1882
Thomas L. Kane note and orders for Mormon Battalion, 1846-1847
Sub-Series — Box 14: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550761]
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
Contains a note and order regarding the Mormon Battalion. Materials date between 1846 and 1847.
Dates:
1846-1847
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- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History 9
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- England -- History 9
- Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 9
- Latter Day Saints -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History 9
- Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Parowan -- History 9
- Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Toquerville -- History 9
- Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 9
- Parowan (Utah) -- History 9
- Toquerville (Utah) -- History 9
- Letters 8
- Immigration and American Expansion 6
- Pioneers 6
- Southern Paiute language -- Dictionaries 6
- Diaries 5
- Latter Day Saint pioneers -- History 5
- Paiute Indians -- History 5
- Notes 3
- Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church) 3
- Autobiographies 2
- Certificates 2
- Kirtland (Ohio) 2
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- New Jersey 2
- Military orders 2
- Nauvoo (Ill.) 2
- Parowan (Utah) 2
- Photocopies 2
- Astrology 1
- Biographies 1
- Bonds 1
- Compact discs 1
- Elections -- Utah -- History 1
- Envelopes (Stationery) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogies 1
- Home and Family 1
- Kane (Pa.) -- History 1
- Latter Day Saints 1
- Medicine 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns 1
- Mormons -- Utah 1
- Notebooks 1
- Overland Journeys to the Western United States 1
- Pension, Military -- United States -- War with Mexico, 1845-1898 1
- Photographers -- Utah 1
- Photographs 1
- Polygamy -- Utah 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Probate records 1
- Records and briefs 1
- Social Life and Customs 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
- Typescripts 1
- Utah -- Emigration and immigration 1
- Utah -- History -- 19th century 1
- Utah -- History -- 19th century -- Photographs 1
- Utah -- Politics and government 1
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