Spiritual Conversion

34 accounts from the Mormon Battalion Miracles collection

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Horace Martin Alexander: From Persecutor of the Saints to Faithful Battalion Soldier — and the Woman Who Kept a Promise to His Dying Wife(1846)

Seymour Brunson Jr.: Son of a Prophet's Confidant, He Marched the Full Battalion Route (1821–1891)(1846)

Philander Colton: Private, Company A — Completed the Mormon Battalion March and Settled Cache Valley, Utah (1821–1897)(1846)

Albert Clark: Private, Company B — Mormon Battalion Soldier Who Walked 2,000 Miles in Faith and Settled Eternal Roots in Utah (1818–1894)(1846)

Levi Ward Hancock — Only General Authority in the Mormon Battalion (1846–1847)

Henry G. Boyle: Converted by Jedediah M. Grant's Preaching in Virginia, Then Served in the Mormon Battalion (1843–1847)

William Decatur Kartchner: Private, Company D — Battalion Veteran and Colonizer Whose Life Embodied Pioneer Faith (1823–1905)(1846)

Ezra Hela Allen: Battalion Fifer, Tragedy Spring Martyr — 'I Know the Gospel Is True' (1814–1848)(1846)

John Borrowman: Scottish Convert Who Marched the Full Trail and Kept a Journal Recording the Last Stage to California (1847)

Lorenzo Dow Babcock: Converted Under Heber C. Kimball's Preaching, Then Marched in the Mormon Battalion (1818–1893)(1846)

Ebenezer Brown: Private, Company B — Completed the Battalion March and Helped Settle Multiple Utah Communities (1815–1895)(1846)

James Bankhead: Private, Company B — Mormon Battalion Soldier Who Settled in Utah After the 2,000-Mile March (1819–1882)(1846)

John Baker: Private, Company D — One of Several Bakers in the Mormon Battalion, Settled in Utah After the March (1820–1880)(1846)

Elias Brewer: Private, Company E — Completed the Mormon Battalion March and Settled in Utah's Sanpete Valley (1818–1896)(1846)

Robert Clift: Private, Company A — Marched at the Head of the Mormon Battalion Column and Settled Utah After Discharge (1820–1893)(1846)

Henderson Cox: Private, Company E — Battalion Veteran Who Helped Settle Southern Utah After the March (1820–1895)(1846)

Amos Cox: Private, Company E — Mormon Battalion Soldier Who Settled Utah County After the Continental March (1818–1892)(1846)

Lysander Dayton: Private, Company B — Mormon Battalion Veteran Who Settled Utah After Eight Months of Desert and Mountain (1822–1897)(1846)

Samuel H. Rogers: Battalion Diarist Whose Journal Spans Nauvoo, the March, and 45 Years of Pioneer Life (1841–1886)(1846)

Reddick Newton Allred: A Life of Faith and Obedience — Mormon Battalion Veteran Whose Writings Span a Century of LDS History (1822–1905)(1846)

Fent F. Allred: Born and Buried on the Mormon Battalion Trail on the Same Day — September 8, 1846

John Wesley Adair: Alabama Convert Marches in the Mormon Battalion, Then Helps Settle Utah Dixie and Arizona (1821–1903)(1846)

Jeduthun Averett: From the Mormon Battalion to a Life of Service — Lives to Age 85 in Springville, Utah (1816–1902)(1846)

Samuel H. Brown: Battalion Veteran Who Settled Parowan — One of the First Colonizers of Iron County, Utah (1822–1906)(1846)

Ruel Barrus: From the Mormon Battalion to Temple Builder — A Life Rooted in Faith (1820–1896)(1846)

William Austin Burt: The Compass Inventor's Son Who Marched in the Mormon Battalion (1822–1890)(1846)

Truman Doolittle: Private, Company B — Mormon Battalion Soldier Who Endured the Full March and Became a Utah Pioneer (1821–1896)(1846)

Rufus Dayton: Private, Company C — Mormon Battalion Soldier Who Completed the Continental March and Helped Build the Pioneer West (1824–1899)(1846)

James Dunn: Private, Company C — Mormon Battalion Veteran Who Marched Under Captain Hunter and Settled Utah After the War (1820–1892)(1846)

Andrew Durfee: Private, Company A — A Founding-Era Saint Who Marched at the Head of the Mormon Battalion Column (1818–1890)(1846)

Thomas Jefferson Adair: Latter-day Saint Pioneer and Mormon Battalion Veteran (1814–1890)(1846)

Elijah Allen: Mormon Battalion Veteran and Reminiscence-Keeper (1826–1866)(1846)

Joseph William Bates: A Member of the Mormon Battalion (1826–?)(1847)

Gilbert Belnap: Mormon Battalion Veteran and Pioneer of Ogden (1821–1899)(1847)

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