In the middle of the summer of 1846 before this band of trail weary pioneers reached the Missouri River, the Mormon Battalion was called by the United States Army.  Of this Hannah wrote, "Before we reached the bluffs the government sent Colonel Allen to ask for five hundred men to fight with Mexico.  It took all of our teamsters.  The women had to drive their ox teams hundreds of miles.  My part was to ride horseback and drive the cows."

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