New Light On The Mormons 19th-Century Western Infantry: A Discussion Of Will Bagley’s And David Bigler’s Army Of Israel From General Daniel Tyler’s classic account of the 1850s to Norma Ricketts’s scholarly work nearly 150 years later, the Mormon Battalion continues to fascinate historians and history buffs. Recruited in 1846 to aid the United States in its war with Mexico over claims to California, the Battalion has been called “the most unusual body of men ever to serve in America’s armed forces.” Through primary documents, Will Bagley and David Bigler, in volume four of Arthur H. Clark Company’s Kingdom in the West series, take a fresh look at the men, women, and events–many long forgotten–that tell what they say is the real story surrounding this important moment in western American and Mormon history.

Jake Zollinger, Scot Denhalter, Will Bagley