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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 (3,091 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- The charter also authorized the [[Nauvoo Legion]] an autonomous [[militia]]45 KB (6,363 words) - 20:13, 11 May 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
- ...ecret societies instituted what were called the Pittsburg riots. The State militia was called out to quell them, and they were not able to do it. The army of29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...r: the following is the exterminating order under which this mob millitia [militia] acting. Head Quarters of the Militia,66 KB (11,683 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...pped and ready for any duty he may be called upon to perform as one of the militia of the county; and if any refuse to obey the laws of the land, I would try29 KB (5,632 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...the other day at camp Wasatch. In the prayer were these words—that "the militia might be enabled to keep their guns bright and their powder dry." We know h14 KB (2,724 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...he necessity of keeping ourselves armed and having in our midst a vigilant militia. In the year 1853 the inhabitants found it necessary to encircle this city34 KB (6,021 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...reak|121|top}} must disperse among the people; if you do not, remember the militia will be upon you." We bid them good bye and left our property; we would not11 KB (2,044 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...nd the government of the State; and in October, thirty-five hundred of the militia of the State of Missouri were marched against a few of us in Far West. They19 KB (3,602 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...who, at that time, was commander of a brigade, composed, I believe, of the militia of the County of Clay, and who declared that the execution of that sentence ...ppointed by the Governor to this command, arrived and took command of this militia. General Atchison was the ranking officer, being the general of a division42 KB (7,482 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...ch, where will it end? Will it end with the imprisonment of men who act as militia men? No; if such acts of usurpation continue, no citizen will be safe, and37 KB (6,940 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...get rid of them, Lilburn W. Boggs, governor and commander-in-chief of the militia of the State of Missouri, issued an exterminating order, threatening the La32 KB (5,876 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...Far West, in Caldwell County, in the year 1838, the General who headed the militia that came out under the exterminating order of Governor Boggs of Missouri,35 KB (6,566 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...s the gathering of the people together. As General Clark said, Who led the militia at Far West, when the brethren were prisoners: said he: "I would advise you38 KB (7,095 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...elves, and did not require any of his aid, for we had an organized body of militia that were quite competent to protect us from their mobs, and asked his advi42 KB (7,949 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...o directed his principal generals and aides-de-camp to gather together the militia of the State, and expel the Saints from the State. And in this executive or39 KB (6,840 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...In that order he called upon his aids and principal generals to rally the militia of the State to execute the order of extermination that he issued. They des25 KB (4,662 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...going; and answering them correctly he was then asked if he knew where the militia were; he told them he did not know of any. They then told him to face about NEHEMIAH COMSTOCK Capt. Militia67 KB (11,850 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...idate William Peniston, a "local Whig politician and colonel of the county militia." (Bushman, p. 357) According to Brodie, "one of the candidates, Willi ...s. In October 1838 a Mormon contingent skirmished with the Richmond County militia at the Battle of Crooked River. Three Mormons and a Missourian were killed.13 KB (1,937 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...municipal courts, the establishment of a university, and the creation of a militia unit known as the "Nauvoo Legion." Smith dreamed of industrial projects, an43 KB (6,425 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...as Ford, desperately trying to prevent civil war, then mobilized the state militia. ...e Legion. Non-Mormons pressured Governor Thomas Ford to mobilize the state militia." {{CriticalWork:Ostling:Mormon America|pages=16}}15 KB (2,187 words) - 13:35, 13 April 2024
- ...am-ondi-Ahman. Here let it be distinctly understood that this company were militia of the county of Caldwell, acting under Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Hinkle7 KB (1,105 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...'s order, the operations of the mob, and the conduct and operations of the Militia, while at Far West. ...t state. No not so much as the form of a process. They were taken by a mob militia, and draged [dragged] from every thing that was dear and sacred, and tried67 KB (11,731 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...the sill swinging, while Levi Williams, the colonel commanding the Warsaw militia, shouted: "Shoot him! *** **** him! Shoot the damned rascal!" But no one sh3 KB (410 words) - 14:58, 13 April 2024
- ...wards as they were-then this wise and oath-bound Executive, called out the militia of the State, to aid, in expelling-or rather, to use one of the expressions ...NOR.-Brigadier General John C. Bennett to be Quarter Master General of the militia of the State of Illinois, from the 20th day of July.68 KB (11,828 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- |L13=Response to claim: "At 8pm that night the Nauvoo militia burned the Nauvoo Expositor to the ground" ==Response to claim: "At 8pm that night the Nauvoo militia burned the Nauvoo Expositor to the ground"==23 KB (3,695 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...e already in pursuit of the Indians; these troops in connection with 2,000 Militia of the state, which are called out by Gov. Reynolds, must quiet them as wel92 KB (16,521 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...borders. We have not force enough here to compete with them. The Illinois militia are disbanded and has left us to fight our own battles, defend our own coun95 KB (17,406 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ian War in the Upper Mississippi region, is about closed, and the Illinois militia have been disbanded. The carpet manufactory of Tarifville, Conn. has capita98 KB (18,054 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...umber of two or three hundred well armed. They called it, "calling out the militia!" probably for the purpose of lessening the magnitude of their crime in the78 KB (14,021 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...but it would have been difficult for one to have distinguished between the militia and the mob, for all the most conspicuous characters engaged in the riot we ...ut on being told that we had agreed to leave the county, and also that the militia had been called out to make peace, they turned aside into the woods, and co81 KB (14,720 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...e. Capt. Atchinson continued the express to Col. Allen for the 200 drafted militia; and also to Liberty for more ammunition; and the night passed off in war l ...is highly reputable; so much so, knowing as I do the fatal result, had the militia come, or not come, I can add that the Capt's safe return, refreshed my mind96 KB (17,771 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ned." Then it is their constitutional right to arm themselves. Indeed, our militia law makes it the duty of every man, not exempted by law, between the ages o89 KB (15,809 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ce. This was no sooner made known to the Governor, than he ordered out the militia, (report says THIRTY THOUSAND) about twelve thousand of which, were on the ...etitioned the Judges to protect us. They sent out about one hundred of the militia,. under the command of Brigadier General Parks; but almost immediately on t72 KB (12,627 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ..., Mo. and not a Mormon, but one of the commanding generals of the Missouri Militia; this will go to prove that we had orders from a man in authority to do as76 KB (13,230 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...ispatched] in every direction under pretence [pretense] of calling out the militia; spreading as they went, every rumor calculated to alarm and excite the unw78 KB (13,863 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...f Lieut. Gov. Boggs; and that one Col. Pitcher had the command. Among this militia, (so called,) were embodied the most conspicuous characters of the mob; and ...mob. They soon learned that the prisoners were not massacred; and that the militia had been called out for their protection; but in this they placed but littl78 KB (14,028 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...be made to him for that purpose, if they wish thus to be repossessed. The Militia have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness. ...s will organize themselves into regular companies, or a regular company of militia, either volunteers or otherwise, they will, I have no doubt, be supplied wi79 KB (13,962 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ery well, and when they are discreet little or no persecution is felt. The militia in the upper counties is in readiness at a moments warning, having been ord80 KB (14,746 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...considerable, and this influence operates in some degree, upon the drafted militia, so far as to lessen confidence in the loyalty of that body: and I am satis ...y to such an armament; the settlers at Nelson have formed the nucleus of a militia; and the New Plymouth settlers are ready to follow the example. The natives79 KB (14,102 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ..., embrace the part of your request. The words, "or other emergency" in our militia law seem quite broad, but the emergency to come within the object of that p79 KB (14,190 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- .... Atchison continued the express to Col. Allan for the two hundred drafted militia, and also to Liberty for more ammunition; and the night passed off in warli ..., is highly reputable, so much so knowing as I do the fatal result had the militia come, or not come, I can add that the Captains safe return, refreshed my mi77 KB (13,442 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ..., embrace this part of your request.-The words "or other emergency" in our militia law seem quite broad, but the emergency to come within the object of that p ...stitution has given to Congress the power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, or repel invasion80 KB (14,156 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...en the Legislature cannot be convened,) to call forth such a number of the Militia, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.80 KB (13,958 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...a second order for the delivery of your arms now in the possession of the militia of Jackson county. Col. Lucas has resigned his command, he informs me if Lt80 KB (14,552 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...omplied with the request of the United States Marshal. These are, that the militia were not called for by the President of the United States; that the disturb81 KB (14,876 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...fore described outrages were committed by a body of men calling themselves militia, called out by order of the governor for the professed object of seeing tha80 KB (14,349 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...e also been called upon to take away the arms from the Mormons: to raise a militia to arrest a supposed fugative [fugitive]; and in fact to repeal some of the79 KB (13,781 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...laced trust include George M. Hinckle, who sold Joseph out to the Missouri militia (resulting in his near-execution and his imprisonment in Liberty Jail) and8 KB (1,295 words) - 22:13, 9 May 2024
- As Joseph contemplated the scene, he could picture in his mind the militia overrunning Nauvoo and committing the same autracites as were acted upon th8 KB (1,366 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
- ...time that they committed those outrages, they declared that they were the militia, and that they were called out to enforce the laws and see that they were k79 KB (14,089 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- "In September 1857, a branch of territorial militia in southern Utah composed entirely of Latter-day Saints, along with some Am1 KB (187 words) - 15:05, 13 April 2024
- ...assassinated. (It is no coincidence that the leader of the Carthage Greys militia--the group which assassinated Joseph--was the justice of the peace who jail ...gustine Spencer accused them of calling out the legion to resist the state militia. The Mormons could see the dissenters were determined to keep Joseph and H69 KB (11,303 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ld by a justice of the peace, who the head of the Carthage Greys—the militia unit that would later murder Joseph.61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- ...ice of authorities, civil and military, these poor fellows deserted by the militia guard, unprotected by the state, did at last defend their houses from pilla ...ealware [Delaware] Indians; and it was with the utmost difficulty that the militia officers could keep them out of the house. In this situation the family rem67 KB (11,806 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...and bloodthirsty anti-Mormons, including members of Thomas Sharp's Warsaw militia and Sharp himself, were marshaled. Small wonder that Joseph was murdered by5 KB (842 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ...uced a bill in the U. S. Senate to provide for the payment of the Missouri Militia who served in the late Mormon War.-Ed.67 KB (12,035 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ..., and a wicked desire to overthrow the saints, the Governor called out the militia, and gave orders for our extermination. Soon after the arrival of the militia at Far West, my brother Joseph, with several others, who were considered le67 KB (11,688 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...unt of military duty as is now or may be hereafter required of the regular militia of the State, and shall be at the disposal of the Mayor in executing the la66 KB (11,267 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ;18 June 1844: Joseph Smith declares martial law in Nauvoo and calls out the militia to protect the city from anti-Mormon mobs. ...ethodist minister, justice of the peace, and captain of the Carthage Greys militia. Joseph and Hyrum were accompanied to the jail by John Taylor, Willard Ric3 KB (527 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ast-impressions-audio/the-mormon-militia-in-missouri-episode-32 Thr Mormon Militia in Missouri: Episode 32]10 KB (948 words) - 19:55, 21 February 2015
- ...to different versions of the MMM story at different times. The Iron County militia leaders spread a variety of propaganda which ranged from "The Indians did i4 KB (648 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ...days distant—a strange choice if he expected to be liberated by the militia. ...sounds more like gossip or grumbling among a few who felt that the Mormons militia could have rescued Joseph if given the chance===20 KB (3,214 words) - 22:34, 28 April 2024
- Following the Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri, the Missouri militia and mob came to capture, kill, or drive out the Saints: For in the midst of sorrow, news came that the militia (besides the hundreds of the mob), were marching to destroy our city and it6 KB (1,015 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ...d either be destroyed ''or'' appropriated by the enemy army. Military and militia commanders in all ages would have done nothing less, and Brigham's stance w4 KB (709 words) - 20:22, 1 May 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 war3 KB (401 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...Joseph, so they had effectively handed him life-time control over the city militia!14 KB (2,180 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ...through Utah to California were massacred by a force consisting of Mormon militia members and Southern Paiute Indians. The Mountain Meadow Massacre, as it is ...ituation at the Mountain Meadows, he reluctantly authorized the use of the militia to finish the massacre in time to avoid discovery. While not at the site un26 KB (4,391 words) - 14:25, 13 April 2024
- ...ous and least understood crimes in the history of the American West. How a militia unit of "God-fearing Christians" could have murdered more than 120 people i2 KB (285 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...oes should be disciplined as soldiers, in addition to the ordinary colored militia.71 KB (12,687 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...l known, that Gen. Bennett has for some time been striving to organize the militia of this state, on a plan which would make them more effective in the time o ...ction of an act entitled an act for the organization and government of the militia of this State, in force July 2nd, 1833, as requires a volunteer to give not68 KB (11,527 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...mber, proximo, at 10 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of general parade-the militia officers of the County of Hancock, Illinois; and the County of Lee, Iowa; a73 KB (12,570 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...Commercial Advertiser we think-that there had been a skirmish between the militia of the State of Illinois and the Mormon forces, in which the latter were se76 KB (13,451 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...ers, and Capt. Davis', and Capt. Avery's companies of cavalry,-of the Iowa Militia; are respectfully invited to attend, and participate in the General Parade70 KB (12,482 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- "The Paymaster of the Missouri Militia, called out to put down the Mormons, some two years since, was supplied wit69 KB (12,301 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...assailed by vexatious law suits, organized mobs, and illegally treated by militia; they have been imprisoned, whipped, tarred and feathered, and driven from ...children in republican America; a man who sanctioned mobocracy, and raised militia for that effect; a man who has been the cause of the death of scores of inn76 KB (12,888 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- "Head Quarters of the Militia, City of Jefferson, Oct. 27th 1838.76 KB (13,652 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...one of their public functionaries, who was entrusted with money to pay the militia for their services, in the so-called Mormon war, had taken the "sabine slop80 KB (14,262 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...will be worth defending; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable ægis."81 KB (14,411 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ..., among whom were Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith should be protected, by the militia of the State, they in company with some ten or twelve others, started for C ...nd had extended to many of the surrounding counties. A large number of the militia of several counties were under arms at Carthage, the Head Quarters of the c79 KB (13,894 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...so Bogard, who was a Methodist preacher, and who was then a captain over a militia company of 50 soldiers, but who had added to his number out of the surround ...made to him by the citizens-to the Sheriff of the county, to order out the Militia of the county to stand in constant readiness, night and day, to prevent the83 KB (15,105 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- ...y, Elias Higbee, gave orders to the Sheriff of said county to call out the Militia. They were called out under the command of Colonel Hinkle, who held a commi HEAD QUARTERS OF THE MILITIA }85 KB (15,171 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024