that was in the Battle with , was one of the expedition but not in the battle was in the battle thinks Benjamin Jones was in the Battle Norman Shearer was also & wounded, I was called upon by to go down to to help relieve some Mormons prisoners who it was said had been taken by a mob, I first refused to go but being threatned / with force I consented to go we proceeded to McDaniels field in . where we were commonded to hitch our horses and we proceeded down to where was encamped my self in the extreme rear the fight was brought on but I was not in it On our return from the battle ground near log creek timber in we met Jos. Smith Jr & others who went to the wounded and pronounced blessings on them & prayed for them to be healed & saved, when we started from McDaniels field fence the only commond given that I heard was boys follow me given by the commander. I have been in two danite meetings the first I did not make any exceptions to, & in the second the following exceptionable was inculcated. “that we should take spoel or plunder in some cases" but it was Objected to And I have never attended a danite Meeting since, the day before the mormons went to J. Smith Jr. in an address told an anecdote of a Dutchman who had been applied to by a Capt to purchase Potatoes. &c in speaking of dissenters who were unwilling to fight mobs, Said that they ought to be pitched upon their horses with pitchforks & Bayonets And forced into the front of the battle & their property confiscated to the use of the army the andecdote spoken of above about the dutchman was told by Smith after s address and without any [p. [29]]