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Cooper Shelton

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Occurred On 1840 December 8

Joined Mormon Battalion Camp Followers

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Names of Pueblo soldiers and Mississippi brethren, 1847

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

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Ended On 1847 July 16

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Detached to Pueblo

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Ended On 1847 July 29

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Occurred On 1916 December 29