170 years ago today - Jun 29, 1844

Illinois governor Thomas Ford calls for the state militia in eleven counties to "proceed by voluntary enlistment to enrol as many men as can be armed in their respective regiments. They will make arrangements for a campaign of twelve days, and will provide themselves with arms, ammunition, and provisions accordingly, and hold themselves in readiness immediately to march upon the receipt of further orders."

Ford is worried that Mormons will attack Carthage in retaliation for Joseph Smith's assassination. In Nauvoo thousands pass by the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. The Nauvoo Legion "was paraded and stationed in different parts of the City apprehending an attack by the enemy."

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  1. AnonymousJune 29, 2014

    The Nauvoo Legion "was paraded and stationed in different parts of the City apprehending an attack by the enemy." [Source: ???].

    The Nauvoo Legion had been disarmed earlier by orders of Gov.Ford, so the Legion must have somehow gotten replacement muskets (from a hidden or secret cache?) or either they were using weapons other than muskets, such as swords, knives, pikes, clubs, etc.

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  2. AnonymousJune 29, 2014

    Compare HC 7:113 "Fourthly" &c., with HC 7:135.

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