By: Ardis E. Parshall - July 30, 2013 The New York Daily Tribune of 16 December 1846 carried news of the Mormon Battalion in this report: THE MORMONS – THEIR PERSECUTIONS, SUFFERINGS AND DESTITUTION. Fort Leavenworth, Upper Missouri,Nov. 20, 1846. Horace Greeley, Esq.: – Dear Sir: I wish you could call public attention to the situation of the Mormons, who were driven out of Illinois not long since. They are above us here, West of the...
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