1832 - Joseph Smith's civil war "prophecy"
1839 - Emmanual Masters Murphy sets up shop in South Carolina
1839 - Mormons set up shop in Nauvoo, IL
1842 - "First official" date of gold found in CA
1842 - Joseph Smith meets Abraham Lincoln and his mormon lobbyist John C. Bennett
1844 - Joseph Smith dies
1846 - US declares war with Mexico
1846-1847 - Donner Party (mormons)
1849 - CA gold rush (Sutter, Marshall, Mormon Battalion)
1850 - CA becomes a state
1860 - SC secedes
1861 - Civil War
There's a reason that the mormons "prophesied" the Civil War starting in South Carolina, 30 years before the fact
It was planned like every other war
https://www.deseret.com/2009/5/23/20378921/mormon-connections-to-lincoln-era-springfieldHard to pay attention to things like the Mormon Trail, Mountain Meadows Massacre (also a 9/11 incident) and the mormon fingers in the CA gold rush when there's a civil war going on
https://latterdaysaintinsights.byu.edu/en/revelation-and-the-civil-war-prophecy/Not just California, there was gold in the Black Hills as well
Guess who built Mt Rushmore?
a mormon
cool that Lincoln's on there