175 years ago today - Jul 16, 1846

On 16 July 1846 some 543 men enlisted in the Mormon Battalion. From among these men Brigham Young selected the commissioned officers... Also accompanying the battalion were approximately thirty-three women, twenty of whom served as laundresses, and fifty-one children.

[Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Battalion, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]

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