Witness Maurice Phelps, a Mormon who was present at Crooked River Battle. Witness John Carrill, a Mormon dissenter and … 1838 Mormon War. Having recently read The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri (LeSueur) and the newly-published Fire & Sword (Gentry/Compton), I was curious what new research or perspectives this book might add. Columbia, Missouri, 1987. 2. I did not get far into the book before concluding that, unfortunately, Kinney had virtually nothing new to offer. 5. BYU Studies 47:1 (2008):4-55. The memory of this violence has affected both the history and the doctrines of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Spelling is unchanged. MAX H. … This conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Missouri Mormon War to differentiate it from the Utah Mormon War (also known as the "Utah War") and the lesser known Illinois Mormon War.

11/12/1838. In 1831, the Mormons under Joseph Smith began to settle in Jackson County to create a Christian commune of "Zion". 17 June: Sidney Rigdon delivers "Salt Sermon" condemning Mormon dissenters. 14 March 1838: Joseph Smith arrives in Far West. This conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Missouri Mormon War to differentiate it from the Utah Mormon War (also known as the "Utah War") and the lesser known Illinois Mormon War. 11/12/1838. 11/5/1838. June: Danites organize in Far West.

Clark is to take command and to what is necessary. The Mormon War, otherwise known as the Utah War or Mormon Rebellion, describes the violence surrounding an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the U.S. Army, which lasts from March 1857 to July 1858. 1838 January 12: Smith escapes Kirtland and heads for Missouri, arriving there with his family in March. The Mormon War is a name sometimes given to the 1838 conflict which occurred between Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and their neighbors in the northwestern region of the US state of Missouri. The 1838 Mormon war was the culmination of years of violence against Latter-day Saints, who had been driven from two states before Missouri and had been driven from two counties within Missouri. 24. The commandment to gather to Missouri had been given to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833, but Joseph Smith and other Church leaders were still centered in Ohio, so the gathering of the Saints was not fixed on Missouri. The extermination order is the name commonly used to refer to an executive order signed on October 27, 1838, by Lilburn W. Boggs, the governor of Missouri during the Mormon-Missouri War of 1838.

28 June: Mormons lay out town and organize a Stake of Zion at Adam-ondi-Ahman in Daviess County. view image [ view full text] 16A/2/9. Daily Missouri Republican – November 2, 1838 MORMON WAR.

Mormon War Letters written in 1838 by Missouri Militia officers and citizens These letters were transcribed from microfilm of originals at the Missouri State Archives. 19 June: After receiving warning, dissenters flee from Caldwell County.
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