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Charles Edwin Colton

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Charles Edwin Colton

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Occurred On 1834 October 20

Joined Mormon Battalion Camp Followers

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Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996

Selected pension application files relating to the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848

United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923.

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Ended On 1847 July 16

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Joined Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company

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Started Between 1847 August 25 – 26

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Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859

Semi-Centennial Commission Book of the Pioneers, 1897

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Ended Between 1847 October 11 – 16

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Occurred On 1916 November 23