| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion. By Sherman L. Fleek. (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 2006. 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50.)

Sherman Fleek has written a well-researched history of the Mormon Battalion, applying his twenty-five-year background in the United States Army as well as his participation as the chief historian of the National Guard Bureau. Fleek notes that this Mexican War battalion formed of five companies of volunteers inducted for one year of federal service was unique, having been recruited solely from one religious body—the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The battalion was led by regular army officers, including James Allen and Philip St. George Cook, and was part of the larger Army of the West led by General Stephen W. Kearny. Kearny's army was charged with taking New Mexico and California for the United States, and the Mormon Battalion played a minor role in this conquest of the West. Its major contribution was pioneering a wagon road across the American Southwest.

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