Mormon Battalion Memorial, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, California, USA
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N 32° 41.376 W 117° 14.658
11S E 477098 N 3616903
Memorial to the Mormon Battalion that fought in the War with Mexico.
Waymark Code: WM3X5W
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/29/2008
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Memorial is dedicated to the Mormon Battalion, Albert Warren Dunham, and Lydia Ann Edmunds Hunter of the Mormon Battalion.
The Mormon Battalion was the only religious "unit" in American military history serving from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican-American War. They provided funds from their salaries and allowances to assist the Mormon exodus west, such as part of their clothing allowances they provided to Brigham Young to help finance the Latter-day Saint's move to the Salt Lake Valley.
The battalion was a volunteer unit of 500 soldiers, nearly all Mormon men with regular army officers in command and key staff positions along with Mormon company officers. The battalion made a grueling march from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, California. The Mormon Battalion were mostly members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were fleeing religious persecution in Nauvoo, Illinois. The battalion's march and service was instrumental in helping secure new lands in several Western states, especially the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 of much of southern Arizona. The march also opened a southern wagon route to California. Veterans of the battalion played significant roles in America's westward expansion in California, Utah, Arizona and other parts of the West.
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Dawn to dusk. This memorial is located in the North east quarter of the cemetery near the USS Bennington memorial Obelisk.
Entrance fees (if it applies): None
Type of memorial: Monument
Website pertaining to the memorial: Not listed
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