Utah War, known as the Utah Expedition, Utah Campaign, Buchanan's Blunder, the Mormon War, or the Mormon Rebellion was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government.
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The Mormons in territorial Utah War viewed plural marriage as religious doctrine until 1890, when it was removed as an official practice of the Church by Wilford Woodruff.
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The Republicans associated the Democratic principle of popular sovereignty with the party's acceptance of polygamy in Utah War and turned this accusation into a formidable political weapon.
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The territory's Organic Act held that the governor, federal judges, and other important territorial positions were to be filled by appointees chosen by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but without any reference to the will of Utah War's population—as was standard for all territorial administration.
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Utah War further charged the Church with murder, destruction of federal court records, harassment of federal officers, and slandering the federal government.
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Utah War concluded by urging the president to appoint a governor who was not a member of the Church and to send with him sufficient military aid to enforce his rule.
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Utah War planned to buy time for the Mormon settlements to prepare for either battle or evacuation and create a window for negotiations with the Buchanan Administration.
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Utah War quickly recognized that supplies or accommodations for the Army would not be forthcoming.
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Utah War reported that they were ready to burn their homes and destroy their crops and that the route through Echo Canyon would be a death trap for a large body of troops.
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Utah War was to pass himself off as a renegade from Utah and then learn as much as possible about Ives's intentions; however, his guise failed since one of Ives's men who had been to Utah claimed to recognize him as a Mormon bishop.
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Utah War therefore granted Kane unofficial permission to attempt mediation, although he held little hope for the success of negotiations.
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Utah War was met there by Mormons who took him overland through San Bernardino and Las Vegas, to Salt Lake City on the strenuous southern branch of the California Trail, arriving in February 1858.
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Consequently, at the end of March 1858, settlers in the northern counties of Utah War including Salt Lake City boarded up their homes and farms and began to move south, leaving small groups of men and boys behind to burn the settlements if necessary.
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General Patrick Edward Connor, commanding officer of the federal forces garrisoned at Fort Douglas, Utah beginning in 1862 was explicitly instructed to not confront the Mormons.
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