Footnotes
Richards served as church historian from December 1842 until his death in 1854. (JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News, 16 Mar. 1854, [2].)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
The scribes may have added the use marks when preparing the document for publication. (See Historical Introduction to “Extract, from the Private Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.,” July 1839.)
Journal of the Senate of the United States, 17 Feb. 1840, 179; 23 Mar. 1840, 259–260; Elias Higbee, Washington DC, to JS, [Commerce, IL?], 24 Mar. 1840, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 105; see also Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 391–394.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1839, and in the Sixty-Fourth Year of the Independence of the Said United States. Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1839.
Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. With the assistance of Jed Woodworth. New York: Knopf, 2005.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441; JS History, vol. C-1, 948–952. Bullock may have added the use marks after he finished copying the document in 1845, and Richards may have added the docket around the same time. The archival marking was added in the twentieth century.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to Letter from Sidney Rigdon, 10 Apr. 1839; Minutes, 4–5 May 1839.
See, for example, James Newberry, Affidavit, Adams Co., IL, 7 May 1839; Joseph Dudley, Affidavit, Adams Co., IL, 11 May 1839; Phebee Simpson Emmett, Affidavit, Adams Co., IL, 14 May 1839, Mormon Redress Petitions, 1839–1845, CHL.
Mormon Redress Petitions, 1839–1845. CHL. MS 2703.
Mulholland was in Commerce, Illinois, during JS’s visit to Quincy in late May and early June 1839. (JS, Journal, 27 May–8 June 1839; Mulholland, Journal, 19 May–8 June 1839.)
Mulholland, James. Journal, Apr.–Oct. 1839. In Joseph Smith, Journal, Sept.–Oct. 1838. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 1, fd. 4.
“Extracts of the Minutes of Conferences,” Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:15; Authorization for Almon Babbitt et al., ca. 4 May 1839; Snow, Journal, 1838–1841, 50–54.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
For more information on the “armies of Israel,” see Introduction to Part 3: 4 Nov. 1838–16 Apr. 1839.
“Extract, from the Private Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.,” Times and Seasons, July 1839, 1:2–9.
About six inches of snow fell on 17 October 1838. (Foote, Autobiography, 21 Oct. 1838, 30.)
Foote, Warren. Autobiography, not before 1903. Warren Foote, Papers, 1837–1941. CHL. MS 1123, fd. 1.
According to Parks’s account, he arrived on 18 October 1838, after the Latter-day Saints’ military operations commenced. (Hiram Parks, Richmond, MO, to David R. Atchison, 21 Oct. 1838, copy, Mormon War Papers, MSA.)
Mormon War Papers, 1838–1841. MSA.
Wight was commissioned as a colonel of the Caldwell County regiment of the state militia when he resided in the county in 1837. Wight’s commission did not give him authority in the Daviess County regiment of the state militia, which was commanded by Colonel William Peniston, an antagonist of the Latter-day Saints. (Lyman Wight, Mountain Valley, TX, to Wilford Woodruff, [Salt Lake City], 24 Aug. 1857, p. 5, Historian’s Office, Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861, CHL; William Peniston, Daviess Co., MO, to Lilburn W. Boggs, 21 Oct. 1838, copy, Mormon War Papers, MSA; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 385.)
Historian’s Office. Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861. CHL. CR 100 93.
Mormon War Papers, 1838–1841. MSA.
Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).
Scholars of the 1838 conflict estimate that between twenty-five and fifty Daviess County buildings were burned, mostly by Latter-day Saint vigilantes. Warren Foote, a sympathetic non-Mormon who later joined the church, recounted that in response to the Saints’ military operations in Daviess County, some Missourians “set their own houses afire, and ran into the adjoining counties, and declared that the ‘Mormons’ had driven them out, and burned their houses &c. This they done to excite the people against the Mormons, in order to get them to join them in their persecutions.” (Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 215; LeSueur, 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, 124; Foote, Autobiography, 21 Oct. 1838, 30–31; see also Hyrum Smith, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, p. 7, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Corrill, Brief History, 38; and Pulsipher, “Zerah Pu[l]siphers History,” 8.)
Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).
LeSueur, Stephen C. The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
Foote, Warren. Autobiography, not before 1903. Warren Foote, Papers, 1837–1941. CHL. MS 1123, fd. 1.
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Pulsipher, Zerah. “Zerah Pu[l]siphers History,” no date. In Zerah Pulsipher, Record Book, ca. 1858–1878. Zerah Pulsipher, Papers, ca. 1848–1878. CHL. MS 753, fd. 1.
On 21 October 1838, Daviess County sheriff William Morgan and Colonel William Peniston wrote descriptions of the recent Latter-day Saint military operations. The following day, other Daviess County residents dictated affidavits to Justice of the Peace Adam Black, who forwarded the statements to Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. (William Morgan, Affidavit, Daviess Co., MO, 21 Oct. 1838, copy; William Peniston, Daviess Co., MO, to Lilburn W. Boggs, 21 Oct. 1838, copy; Thomas Martin, Affidavit, 22 Oct. 1838, copy; James Stone, Affidavit, 22 Oct. 1838, copy; Samuel Venable, Affidavit, 22 Oct. 1838, copy; Jonathan J. Dryden, Affidavit, 22 Oct. 1838, copy, Mormon War Papers, MSA.)
Mormon War Papers, 1838–1841. MSA.
On 23 October 1838, Ray County militia commander Captain Bogart received authorization to “range the line” between Ray County and Caldwell County. Bogart evidently exceeded his authorization by entering Caldwell County, harassing Latter-day Saints, and taking Mormon prisoners. According to Parley P. Pratt and Rigdon, Hinkle was not present when news of Bogart’s actions reached Far West. Hinkle claimed that he was at his home at the time and was unaware of these developments until the following morning. Pratt recounted that Captain John Killian, who commanded the Far West men in Hinkle’s absence, ordered Patten and his men to go to Crooked River. Apparently Patten also led the company at Crooked River in his capacity as a cavalry commander in the church’s “war department.” (See Introduction to Part 3: 4 Nov. 1838–16 Apr. 1839; Pratt, History of the Late Persecution, 33; Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, pp. [12]–[13], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; and George M. Hinkle, Testimony, Richmond, MO, Nov. 1838, pp. [40]–[41], in State of Missouri, “Evidence.”)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.