In this episode, Dave lays out the facts of the open conflict that occurred between Latter-day Saints and mobs of Missourrians in 1838. Ultimately, the conflict resulted in the forced expulsion of Latter-day Saints from the state of Missouri.
More information on this episode, including the transcription: bit.ly/2Uia0at
From the Church’s website: bit.ly/39Zw5S5
“The Election Day Battle at Gallatin,” by Reed C. Durham Jr.: bit.ly/3gcZvxE
“Atchison’s Letters and the Causes of Mormon Expulsion from Missouri,” by Richard Lloyd Anderson: bit.ly/2FCBnYP
“Missouri Conflict,” from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism: bit.ly/2CEBgLd
“The Haun’s Mill Massacre and the Extermination Order of Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs,” by Alexander Baugh: bit.ly/3gaqR7t
“Haun’s Mill Massacre,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism: bit.ly/3l3gzcW
I also recommend the book “Rough Stone Rolling,” by Richard Bushman, which is excellently well-researched.
Notes:
-Why were things so tense between Missourians and Latter-day Saints? 5 reasons listed here: bit.ly/2CEBgLd
-Bushman mentions that Latter-day Saint forces moved into Gallatin, Millport, and Splawn’s Ridge. According to a directory of Daviess County “Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present,” Splawn’s Ridge was located “about 3 miles east of Gallatin, and near what afterward became the town of Millport...”
-“Mormon strategy went beyond protection of their own people to attacking suspected mobbers. Mormon militia were to confiscate the property of hostile Daviess citizens and force them to move, thus destroying the vigilantes’ home base. Enemies only were to be attacked. The confiscated property was to be deposited in the bishop’s storehouse for the use of Mormons who had suffered losses in earlier battles.” -Bushman, pg. 362.
-Some Saints claimed that mobbers were burning their own houses/buildings just to make the Saints look bad. Maybe, but I doubt it. It’s generally accepted that throughout the “war,” both parties pillaged and burned each other’s stuff. The injustice in it all is that the Saints were the ones the law came down hard on, while the mobs of Missourrians (the cause of the Saints’ desperation) were free to do as they pleased.
-”On November 1, Far West surrendered. The soldiers searched the city for firearms, threatening and ridiculing the Saints. A few days later, a force dispatched to Adam-ondi-Ahman accepted the surrender of the mormon leaders, who followed Joseph’s instructions not to resist. The Mormon men came one by one to a table where they signed away their property to the state of Missouri while militia men stood by and struck anyone who protested. By this time the Mormons were willing to go. Marauders were attacking outlying farms, molesting women, whipping men, and killing animals. [Albert] Rockwood reported that ‘orders from the governor are to exterminate the Mormons, the Brethren are hunted as wild game and shot down several have been shot in site of the City, womin [sic] are ravished and houses rifled, one woman has been killed within less than 2 miles of this City, we are here as captives strictly guarded by the Malitia [sic] no person is allowed to go out of the City.’” -Richard Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, pg. 367.
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3 окт 2024
