150 years ago today - Mar 13, 1862

[General] George A. Smith receives a letter from "Bishop Lunt" saying that "Col Tarlton had a ridgment of 1,200 soldiers . . . He accuses the mormons of pulling down the mountain meadow monument. Said he would learn the mormons to let dead men alone." The monument at Mountain Meadows had been torn down 10 months previously by order of Brigham Young.

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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  1. There are many notable legal historians who agree that BY should have been charged with accessory to murder (after the fact) and obstruction of justice in the MMM case.

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