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1847–1868

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Albert Sharpe


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    Albert Sharp

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  • Albert Sharpe reached Salt Lake Valley on July 29, 1847 with other members of the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachment. This Mormon Battalion company arrived to the Salt Lake Valley a little over a week after the Brigham Young Vanguard Company. Albert Sharpe was included on the list "Names of Pueblo soldiers and Mississippi brethren" document created by Thomas Bullock. On August 17, 1847, he deposited his gun in Salt Lake prior to returning to Winter Quarters. 

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 37

Sources

  • "Muster Roll D, Mormon Battalion," p. 2.
  • Names of Pueblo soldiers and Mississippi brethren, 1847.
  • Nauvoo Community Project
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Pay record, 1847. Mormon Battalion Pay Record, Pueblo, Colorado