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Saints and the Union
By silver dollar
Very informative book on the Mormons and the War Between the States. I always wondered the Mormons position on the war, and on whose side they fought.
Turns out the Mormons went west before the war started. Lincoln's troops occupied Salt Lake City the entire war, and prevented Brigham Young and his Mormons from taking sides to any degree.
The Yankees were afraid the Mormons would fight for the Confederacy. Why haven't the history books back east wrote about these facts. Oh well, just as well. We can't believe the historians back east anyway.
I was amused to learn that the Yankee's pointed a cannon at Brigham Young's house as a means of threatening and controlling him.
After the war, Brigham Young makes friends with his former enemies, and soon the golden spike was driven into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. It would be almost forty years later before Utah becomes a state.
Very good history, and I believe this is the only book that covers the Saints and the Union.
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"The history of Utah during the Civil War can be written largely in terms of two personalities, and this E.B. Long has done. They were Brigham Young, the dynamic and commanding president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and General Patrick Edward Connor, the mercurial Irishman who commanded federal troops in Utah from 1862 to 1865...Those who like their history straight from the sources will find "The Saints and the Union" a gem...[It] is solid history, comprehensively documenting an important period in Utah and Mormon history". (Robert M. Utley, "Journal of Southern History"). "Clearly the standard history of an unusual and interesting aspect of the Civil War". (G. Thomas Edwards, "Pacific Northwest Quarterly"). "[Long] avoids the provincialism that has persistently plagued Mormon history by placing his account firmly within the broader perspective of American history...[This] is a solid, scholarly, objective work which deserves the attention of all students of Mormonism, the Civil War, and the American West". (Newell G. Bringhurst, "Journal of the West"). "Long presents a wealth of material that vividly illustrates the paranoia, suspicion, and fear - real or feigned - that characterized the poles of authority - civil, military, and religious - in Utah during the war years...By letting the major personalities in Utah speak their minds during these troubled years, E.B. Long's book provides a much greater understanding of the Civil War on the western border". (Harwood P. Hinton, "Civil War History").
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2024311 in Books
- Published on: 1981-04-01
- Original language:English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 292 pages
Features
- Utah American Civil War
- Mormon Brigham Young
- United States Military
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