In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss the history of the only United States military regiment ever mustered specifically from a religious group: The Mormon Battalion.
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- Charisma Under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839 (Dan Vogel).
- From Iowa to Immortality: A Tribute to the Mormon Battalion by Elder Lance B. Wickman
- The Mormon Battalion’s Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War by Natalie Brooke Coffman of University of Vermont
- The Mormon Battalion by Sherman L. Fleek
- Reddick Allred’s journal