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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 39668, member: 1910&quot;]Actually, Utah was a territory when President Buchanan sent 2500 troops under the command of Albert Sidney Johnston (later a Confederate general who died at Shiloh) to enforce federal law in the territory.&nbsp; There was a dispute between territorial officials (all Mormons) and Federal officials (none Mormon) over the influence of the Mormon church in territorial affairs.&nbsp; Although both sides continued to distrust each other up through the First World War, the &quot;Mormon War&quot; of 1857 was resolved without a shot being fired.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the Mormon gold coins were minted before Utah became a territory (in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850), when Utah - or Deseret, if you prefer - still thought of itself as an independent theocratic kingdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>(There&#039;s a reason my father calls me a &quot;useless font of trivial information.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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