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13 accounts from the Mormon Battalion Miracles collection

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William Coray: 'Nothing Could Have Saved Our Lives but the Unseen Hand of Almighty God' — Mormon Battalion Journal, January 1847

Daniel Tyler: Historian and Soldier—A Man Called to Preserve the Record of Faith (1846–1881)

Melissa Coray: The 18-Year-Old Bride Who Walked 2,000 Miles Rather Than Be Separated from Her Husband (1846–1847)

Captain Daniel C. Davis: Commander of Company E — Led His Men Through the Continental March with Faith and Military Discipline (1813–1883)(1846)

Andrew Jackson Shupe: Company A Soldier's Preserved Diary of Faith and Endurance (1846–1848)

Henry Standage: Company E Soldier Whose Journal Became the Foundation of Battalion History (1846–1928)

Daniel Tyler: The Sergeant Who Spent 35 Years Gathering the Battalion’s Stories So They Would Not Be Forgotten (1881)

Cyrus Canfield Beers: Private, Company C — From the Mormon Battalion to Faithful Colonizer of Dixie (1818–1895)(1846)

George Washington Bradley: Private, Company B — Battalion Veteran and Utah Pioneer Who Answered Every Call (1820–1888)(1846)

William Barter: Private, Company C — Mormon Battalion Veteran Who Built His Life in Utah After the Continental March (1822–1898)(1846)

Jefferson Bailey: Private, Company C — Completed the Battalion March and Lived to See Utah Statehood (1823–1897)(1846)

Abigail Smith Abbott: The Mormon Battalion 'Widow' and Her Deliverance Across the Plains (c. 1839–1848)

John Dixon: Private, Company C — Completed the Mormon Battalion March and Built His Life in Utah's Pioneer Communities (1819–1893)(1846)

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