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- ...had left Corrill county, there was ordered out, a part of two brigades of militia, to check their movements. Generals Doniphan and Parks, were in command of ...accordance with his representation, the authorities of the county, had the militia regularly called out, and a number went to Daviess county as he had reccomm69 KB (12,268 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ethodist minister, justice of the peace, and captain of the Carthage Grays militia.26 KB (4,387 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ere bartered away by Hinckle and were taken into the camp of the millitia [militia] , we had all the evidence we could have wished, that the world hated us an ...their own lives; retreated and after getting clothed with the authority of militia, raised the cry of murder! treason! &c. and appeared as innocent as a sheep66 KB (11,467 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...not, however, reach upper Missouri before I met some of L. W. Boggs's mob militia returning home: from them I learned in some faint degree, the situation of69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...Mr. Adam Black, a Justice of the Peace, and Mr. Penniston a Colonel in the militia, went from house to house and warned every man, belonging to our society, t73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- *p. 2: "Now fear of [the Mormons'] city-wide militia, use of local petitions of habeas corpus to dismiss state warrants, and rum6 KB (984 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L8=Response to claim: 2 - "Now fear of...city-wide militia, use of local petitions of habeas corpus to dismiss state warrants, and rum ==Response to claim: 2 - "Now fear of...city-wide militia, use of local petitions of habeas corpus to dismiss state warrants, and rum58 KB (8,618 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...etc.) but it is not clear what lawmaking powers the author is claiming for militia officers as such. ...nda|This is incorrect. In what ways were they similar to the Danites? The militia was organized with the sanction of the Illinois legislature, the state supp33 KB (5,140 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...have the Nauvoo Legion rescue him. By contrast, he repeatedly ordered the militia to stay home and his followers to avoid assembling.24 KB (3,642 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...sill swinging, while [[Levi Williams]], the colonel commanding the Warsaw militia, shouted: "Shoot him! *** **** him! Shoot the damned rascal!" But no one sh5 KB (726 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...repealed. This left Nauvoo without a city government, and without a legal militia or police force. This was done despite the warnings of members of the state5 KB (698 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...were hundreds there ready for war. Col. Pitcher pretended to call out the militia, as he said to quell the mob, and make peace between the parties; but the f ...cornfield, so that their lives would not be in danger, from his pretended militia; and after taking a watch from one of them for costs, he being the constabl66 KB (11,727 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...one in Carthage and another when anti-Mormons (and probably the Illinois militia) retaliated by laying siege to Nauvoo for insurrection. To avoid civil war5 KB (767 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...o claim: 216 - Former bishop Klingensmith is said to have claimed that the militia was "called out for the purpose of committing acts of hostility" against th ...o claim: 216 - Former bishop Klingensmith is said to have claimed that the militia was "called out for the purpose of committing acts of hostility" against th6 KB (818 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- to intimidate Mormon dissenters and oppose anti-Mormon militia units. ...idate William Peniston, a "local Whig politician and colonel of the county militia." (Bushman, p. 357) According to Brodie, "one of the candidates, Willi24 KB (3,086 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- The charter also authorized the [[Nauvoo Legion]] an autonomous [[militia]]32 KB (4,032 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ..., that we were ordered out of the indian country, on penalty of having the Militia take us out.31 KB (5,734 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...into these mountains. He obtained orders from President Polk to summon the militia of Missouri, and destroy every "Mormon" man, woman, and child, unless they14 KB (2,648 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...on-compliance with that requisition, to call on the {{page break|107|top}} militia of Missouri and Iowa, and other States, if necessary, and to call volunteer27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...d we forget that when a governor of unsavory memory forbade the use of the militia alike for defense against Indian depredations, as well as for Fourth of Jul20 KB (3,743 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024