JS’s office, located on the southwest corner of Water Street and Main Street, likely served as the headquarters of the Nauvoo Legion. (See “Nauvoo, Illinois, 30 April 1843.”)

Hyrum Smith’s office was located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Water Street and Bain Street. (See “Nauvoo, Illinois, 30 April 1843.”)

The officers met at ten o’clock in the morning on 13 August in the office of Hyrum Smith, and the committee presented for approval a bill that outlined militia conduct and discipline. After a half-hour recess, the officers reconvened at two o’clock and held an election for the office of major general. At this meeting, Brevet Major General Wilson Law was elected to the position, with fifty-five votes, over Lyman Wight, who received forty-three votes. JS might have initially intended to appoint James Arlington Bennet, the next ranking officer, as the next major general, but Bennet resided in New York and, though commissioned, may have felt his position was an honorary one. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, [13] Aug. 1842, 22–29; “Late and Important from the Mormon Country,” New York Herald, 30 Aug. 1842, [2].)

Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 1843–1844. Nauvoo Legion, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430, fd. 1.

New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.