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31308
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English
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Mormon Motivation for Enlisting in the Civil War
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Civil War Saints
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center
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183–201
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"Mormon soldiers who enlisted were different in some respects than the typical Union or Confederate soldier. Fresh in many minds at the time was President James Buchanan’s 1857 request for Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and approximately twenty-five hundred soldiers to quell a supposed Mormon rebellion in Utah and replace Brigham Young as governor. Although the Utah War concluded without significant bloodshed, the effects of that war were long-lasting. At the start of the Civil War, the U.S. Army still occupied nearby Camp Floyd. The majority of Mormon men must have felt that they had understandable reasons for avoiding Civil War military service. The purpose of this essay is to explore the motives of Latter-day Saints who chose to fight in the Civil War." [Author]
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