Mormon Battalion
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The Mormon Battalion was an infantry battalion of the United States Army. It was the only unit in American military history recruited solely from one religious group and having a religious title as th
Memorial to the battalion at the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial, Los Angeles
"Mormon Battalion Monument" by Edward J. Fraughton, Presidio Park, San Diego, California
Philip St. George Cooke
A later-19th-century painting depicting the Mormon Battalion reaching the Gila River in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona
Philip St. George Cooke
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Philip St. George Cooke was a career United States Army cavalry officer who served as a Union General in the American Civil War. He is noted for his authorship of an Army cavalry manual, and is someti
Mormon Battalion
…of discipline, and tensions continued. Arriving in Santa Fe in October, General Kearny had dispatched Captain (brevet promotion to Lieutenant Colonel) Philip St. George Cooke, West Point class of 1827, to assume command of the Battalion. His assignment was to march them to California and to build a wagon road along the way…
Cooke, c. 1860–1865
Union General Philip St. George Cooke
John Rogers Cooke
J. E. B. Stuart