April 20, 2020 by Ryan K. Lee •
autobiography,
biographies,
Civil War,
Elizabeth Kane,
Kane family,
Pennsylvania,
Thomas L. Kane,
travel accounts,
Twelve Mormon Homes,
Ulysses S. Grant
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection:Elizabeth Wood Kane writings (Vault MSS 792, Series 6, Subseries 4). This is part of the sixth series of the larger Kane family papers (Vault MSS 792), which primarily relate to Thomas and Elizabeth Kane. This subseries contains autobiographical and …
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In July 1846, President James K. Polk issued an order for the Mormon Saints to round up 500 men to volunteer to enlist in the U. S. Army to assist in the Mexican American War. This group became known as the Mormon Battalion. Little did the Saints know that this was all part of a …
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