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Utah War
Part of the Mormon wars
American officers during the Utah War
Date
March 1857 – July 1858
Location
Utah Territory (present day Utah and Wyoming)
Result
Inconclusive[1] Utah War Peace Commission
Brigham Young replaced as Governor of Utah Territory
Full amnesty for charges of sedition and treason issued to the citizens of Utah Territory by President James Buchanan if they accepted US federal authority
Belligerents
United States
Deseret / Utah Native American allies
Commanders and leaders
President James Buchanan
Governor Alfred Cumming
General Albert S. Johnston
Gov. Brigham Young
Gen. Daniel H. Wells
Cap. Lot Smith
Units involved
United States Army
5th Infantry[2]
10th Infantry[2]
B Battery (Phelps') of the 4th Artillery[2]
2nd Dragoons[2]
Nauvoo Legion
Armed mormons
Strength
2,500–3,000
1,000
Casualties and losses
Civilians: 150 killed (120 in Mountain Meadows Massacre)[3]
The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition,[4] the Utah Campaign,[5]Buchanan's Blunder,[6] the Mormon War,[7] or the Mormon Rebellion,[8] was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government. The confrontation lasted from May 1857 to July 1858. There were some casualties, most of which were non-Mormon civilians. While the war had no notable military battles, Mormons did perpetrate the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 120 unarmed settlers who were passing through towards California.
^"Utah War".
^ abcdRamos, Donna G. (June 12, 2006). "Utah War: U.S. Government Versus Mormon Settlers". Historynet. Vienna, Virginia.
^MacKinnon 2007, pp. 43, 60.
^Hafen, Le Roy Reuben; Hafen, Ann Woodbury (1958). The Utah expedition, 1857–1858: a documentary account of the United States military movement under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and the resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion. A. H. Clark. ISBN 9780870620355. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
^William Preston Johnston; Albert Sidney Johnston (1878). The life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. D. Appleton. p. 207. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
^Poll & Hansen 1961.
^"The Mormon War" (PDF). The New York Times. May 19, 1858.
^"The Mormon Rebellion" (PDF), The New York Times, February 16, 1858
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