In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s p

Collection of essays and articles about the US Civil War, with a focus on, but not limited to, people who were either members or later became members of The Chu

George R. Maxwell, son of Reuben Maxwell and Mary Elizabeth Heritage, was born in 1842 in Monroe County, Michigan. He married Emma Belle Turner (d. 1866), daugh

Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the aband