摩尔门大队

摩门教大队（Mormon Battalion）是在美墨战争1846-1848年创建的一支美国军队，其成员几乎都是耶稣基督后期圣徒教会（摩门教）的信徒。摩门大队是美国军事史上唯一的一支宗教性军事部队。该大队并未参加军事冲突，主要工作是铺设道路和修建要塞。大队的人数约有500多人。一些摩尔门大队的退伍军人后来在加州发现金矿，成为加州淘金潮之始^[1]。

参考资料

1. The Discovery of Gold in California 互联网档案馆的存档，存档日期2008-07-02., John Sutter, Hutchings’ California Magazine, November 1857: The Mormons did not like to leave my mill unfinished, but they got the gold fever like everybody else. After they had made their piles they left for the Great Salt Lake. So long as these people have been employed by me they hav[sic] behaved very well, and were industrious and faithful laborers, and when settling their accounts there was not one of them who was not contented and satisfied.