Survival

11 accounts from the Mormon Battalion Miracles collection

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Philip St. George Cooke — A U.S. Army Colonel's Extraordinary Tribute to the Mormon Battalion (1847)

Abner Blackburn and the Sick Detachment at Pueblo: When God’s Mercy Arrived in the Form of a Kansas Winter (1846–47)(1847)

Henry Standage: Three Waterless Days in the Arizona Desert — A Company B Soldier's Documented Survival (1846)

Levi Dodson: Private, Company D — Mormon Battalion Soldier Whose Survival of the Arizona Desert Was a Witness of Divine Preservation (1820–1894)(1847)

Melissa Coray: A Baby Born in Monterey, Gold Abandoned for Zion, and a Faithful Widow at Twenty-One (1847–1849)(1848)

Horace Alexander Enlists in the Battalion — His Wife Nancy Dies at Winter Quarters While He Marches, Her Last Act Clutching His Boots (1847)

Joshua Abbott: A 41-Year-Old Veteran Enlists in the Mormon Battalion, Marches 2,000 Miles, and Lives to Age 91 (1846–1847)

Dorr P. Curtis: Private, Company D — Mormon Battalion Veteran Whose Endurance Across Desert and Mountain Was a Living Testimony (1821–1896)(1846)

Divine Provision During the Mormon Battalion March(1847)

Christopher Merkley Brimhall: Private, Company E — One of Brigham City's Early Settlers After the Battalion March (1820–1889)(1846)

Samuel Dice: Private, Company D — A Quiet Witness Whose Completion of the Mormon Battalion March Was Its Own Testimony of Faith (1819–1891)(1847)