Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
These troops were part of the Nauvoo Legion, whose members could include any eligible citizen of Hancock County. Green Plains was located in southwestern Hancock County, about sixteen miles south of Nauvoo. (“Nauvoo Legion,” Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1841, 2:320.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS, the lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion.
Hosea Stout’s regiment of the Nauvoo Legion, and presumably the entire legion, had been dismissed at six o’clock the previous evening and met again on this day from eight o’clock in the morning to six o’clock in the evening, when they were again dismissed until the following morning. Jonathan H. Hale reported that the legion drilled on the arsenal grounds, which were immediately northwest of the temple, across from Wells and Knight streets. (Order Book, 1843–1844, 23, Nauvoo Legion Records, CHL; Comparison of Tax Assessment Valuations, 1866–1867, Nauvoo Restoration, Incorporated, Collection, CHL; Hale, “Account Kept of the Nauvoo Legion,” 1.)
Nauvoo Legion Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430.
Nauvoo Restoration, Incorporated. Collection, 1818–2001. CHL. MS 9622.
Hale, Jonathan. “An Account Kept of the Nauvoo Legion.” Jonathan Hale, Papers, 1835–1845. CHL. MS 3214, fd. 1.
Probably the Nauvoo Legion parade ground, located west of Main Street.
William Clayton reported that at “about 10 [a.m.] a large company of volunteers from Iowa landed & marched to parade ground,” while Zina Huntington Jacobs noted that “3 compan[i]es arived t[w]o from over the river.” (Clayton, Daily Account of JS’s Activities, 19 June 1844; Zina D. H. Young, Diary, [1].)
Young, Zina Diantha Huntington. Diaries, 1844–1845, 1886, 1889. CHL. MS 6240.