Seventies president Levi W. Hancock enlists as the first actively serving federal authority to participate in a U.S. war. Brigham Young promises the battalion on Jul 18 that "you will have no fighting to do," which proves true. A sick detachment would siphon off nearly 275 Mormons to Pueblo, Colorado, where they would be discharged and arrive in Salt Lake Valley on Jul 29, 1847. The rest would march along the Mexican border to San Diego where most would be discharged in Los Angeles on Jul 16, 1847.
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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