Mormon 1 – 2
Mormon is no longer abridging the record of others although we are reading a smaller portion of his record than he recorded on the other plates. I wonder as I read today whether Mormon (the father of the author/general) went to Zerahemla in order to fight. If not it seems coincidental that the war broke out the year that he took his son there and the within four years his son had been made general of all the Nephite armies. It seems to me that Mormon must have proven himself to the people at the age of eleven when they had last fought the Lamanites. His stature and his previous accomplishments would be the reason to give him command of the armies.