Mormon Battalion - Union Pioneer Memorial Cemetery - Union, UT, USA - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

This two-sided granite monument, located within the Union Pioneer Memorial Cemetery honors Mormon Battalion members who died during their service in the Mexican-American War. Side one of the marker reads:

IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF THE MORMON BATTALION WHO DIED ALONG THE TRAIL FROM IOWA TO CALIFORNIA IN 1846 - 1848, AND LIE IN UNKNOWN GRAVES.

Side two reads:

THOSE WHO SERVED

PVT MERVIN BLANCHARD
PVT SAMUEL BOLEY
PVT RICHARD CARTER
PVT ABNER CHASE
PVT GEORGE COLEMAN
PVT ELI DODSON
PVT NEAL DONALD
PVT ALBERT DUNHAM
PVT ELIJAH N. FREEMAN
PVT JOHN W. GREEN
PVT JAMES HAMPTON
PVT HENRY PIKE HOYT
PVT BAILEY JACOBS
PVT MELCHER OYLER
PVT JOHN PERKINS
PVT ALVA PHELPS
MUSICIAN JOSEPH W. RICHARDS
CPL JAMES A SCOTT
PVT NORMAN SHARP
PVT MILTON SMITH
CPL ARNOLD STEPHENS


"The Mormon Battalion was the only religiously based unit in United States military history,and it served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559 Latter-day Saints men led by Mormon company officers, commanded by regular US army officers. During its service, the battalion made a grueling march nearly 2,000 miles long from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego.

The battalion's march and service was instrumental in helping the US secure much of the American Southwest, including new lands in several Western states, especially the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 of much of southern Arizona. The march also opened a southern wagon route to California. Veterans of the battalion played significant roles in America's westward expansion in California, Utah, Arizona and other parts of the West." (visit link)


For more information about the Mormon Battalion, visit the Mormon Battalion Association website at: (visit link)

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