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The Mormon Battalion was an infantry battalion of the United States Army. It was the only unit in American military history recruited solely from one religious group and having a religious title as the unit designation. The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 543 and 559 enlisted soldiers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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