
Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, who led the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, wears the single star of his Civil War rank as a brigadier general. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection).
Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, who led the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, wears the single star of his Civil War rank as a brigadier general. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection).