Docket Entry, 1–circa 6 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
Source Note
Docket Entry, [, Hancock Co., IL, 1–ca. 6 July 1843], Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court 1843); Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 55–87, 116–150; handwriting of and ; CHL.
had also set fire to a house, & when he left it was burning down. Such was the situation of affairs at at that time, that could not spare any of his forces, as an attack was hourly expected at . The messenger went off, & I hea[r]d no more about it, till some time the night following, when I was awakened from sleep, by the voice of some man apparently giving command to a military body, being somewhat unwell, I did not get up. Some time after I got up in the morning, the of the stopped at the door & said that , had had a battle with the mob last night at , & that several were killed & a number wounded; that was among the number wounded, & his wound supposed to be mortal. After I had taken breakfast another gentleman called, giving me the same account, & asked me if I would not take my horse & ride out with him & see what was done. I agreed to do so, & we started, & after going some three or four miles, met a company coming into , we turned & went back with them
This mob proved to be that, headed by the Reverend a methodist preacher & the battle was called the Bogard Battle. After this battle, there was a short season of quiet, the mobs disappeared, & the militia returned to ; though they were not discharged, but remained under orders, until it should be known how the matter would turn. In the space of a few days, it was Said that a large body of armed men were entering the south part of . The court ordered the military to go & enquire what was their object, in thus coming into the without permission. The military started as commanded and little or no information was received at about their movements until late the next afternoon, when a large army was descried making their way towards , being an elevated situation the army was discovered, while a number of miles from the place. Their object was entirely unknown to the citizens as far as I had any knowledge on the subject; and every man I heard speak of their object, expressed their as great ignorance as myself.— They reached a small stream on the east side of the , which was studded with timber on its banks & for perhaps from half a mile, to a mile on the east side of the stream one hour before sundown. Their <There> the main body halted, & soon after a detachment under the command of , marched towards the in line of battle. This body was preceded, probably threefourths of a mile in advance of them by a man carrying a white flag, who approached within a few rods [p. 141]