41: The Mormon Battalion
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Learn about the Mormon Battalion. Captain James Allen of the United States Army came to the Saints and asked them for 500 men to volunteer to help with the war in Mexico. Five hundred forty-one men volunteered to serve. They marched 2,000 miles to California, but they didn't have to fight.
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