Item Detail
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17425
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5
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26
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English
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The Nauvoo Legion and the Prevention of the Utah War
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 2004
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72
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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300-321
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In the spring of 1857, President James Buchanan ordered a military expedition to investigate reports of Mormon rebellion and bring the Utah territory firmly under the control of the United States government. Fearing the worst, the Mormons made preparations for war. The Nauvoo Legion was activated and sent east with orders to hinder, harass, and stop, if possible, the advance of Johnston's Army. Metcalf demonstrates how the Legion successfully fulfilled their mandate and shaped the events that followed. Through tactics such as night raids, stealing cattle, destroying supplies, blocking roads with trees, and setting fires, the Legion was able to keep the army at bay long enough for Thomas L. Kane to initiate the negotiations that would bring a peaceful and relatively non-violent conclusion to what came to be known as the "Utah War."
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