Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 2, 1976

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Men, Motives, and Misunderstandings: A New Look at the Morrisite War of 1862 BY G. M. HOWARD

Above: Nauvoo Legion cannon, now part of a Daughters of Utah Pioneers monument at Farmington, was used against the Morrisites. Photograph by G. M. Howard.

jfVs THE UNITED STATES was struggling for its very existence on the Civil War battlefields, the territory of Utah faced an internal crisis of its own. Though small in comparison to the national strife, it nevertheless Dr. Howard is a retired dentist living in Bountiful, Utah.


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