The Mormon Battalion Prior to the Original Mormon Battalion

 

The Mormon Battalion of 1846 is not the first time the government solicited the Church for men. In 1837 the government approached the Church for men to help with what?

A)                 To restore property back to the Church that had been lost in Jackson County, Missouri

B)                 To round up all the British loyal to England and send them back home

C)                 To put down a Seminole uprising

D)                 Prepare to invade South Carolina if they did not give up their slaves

Yesterday’s answer

a.      1853

The leaders of the Mormon Church (The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve) are pictured in a series of steel engravings made from Marsena Cannon daguerreotypes by English artist Frederick Hawkins Piercy and published in Liverpool, England in 1853 by Samuel W. Richards, then president of the British Mission and editor of the Mormon periodical The Millennial Star.

Douglas F. Tobler and Nelson B. Wadsworth, The History Of The Mormons In Photographs And Text: 1830 To The Present (New York: St. Martins Press, 1987), 23.