After the Mormons were all disarmed compelled them <​gave them a compulsory order for men women & children​> to leave the forthwith without any exceptions— counting it a mercy to spare their lives on these conditions— whilst these things were proceeding, instead of releasing us from confinement & were forcibly added to our number as prisoners — and under a large military escort commanded by , before mentioned, <​we​> were all marched to a distance of between 50 & 60 miles leaving our families & our friends at their mercy in a destitute condition to prepare for a journey of more than 200 miles at the approach of winter without our protection, and every moment exposed to robbery, ravishment & other insult their property robbed & their houses <​& Lands​> already wrested from them— We were exhibited like a caravan of wild animals on the way & in the streets of & were also kept prisoners for a show for several days. In the mean time a had been sent by the to the <​with an additional​> force of 6000 men, from the lower country, to join in his operations against the Mormons. and He soon arrived before [p. 5]