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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