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Article: SAINTS MARCH IN!

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November 3, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:

The United States declared war against Mexico on May 13, 1846. In early June, President James Knox Polk directed Colonel Stephen W. Kearny to enlist 500 Mormon men to join the Army of the West. William Marcy, the Secretary of War, authorized Kearny to use Mormon recruits. Kearny, in turn, directed Captain James Allen, commander of "I" Company, 1st U.S. Dragoons, to proceed to the Mormon camps in present day Iowa and raise four to five companies of volunteers. Allen arrived at the settlement of Mt. Pisgah on June 26 to organize the Mormon Battalion.

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