Mormon History, 19 [Sept 1845]

[Brigham Young Journal] From the movements it appears the time to favor Zion has come for our men have had perfect success, every shot the brethren have made has taken effect and not a gun missed fire. This morning 5 oclock the alarm gun was fired calling the men to gather to draft a possee according to the sherifs orders after mature deliberation I was satisfied that it would not answer for us to send according to that order. I therefore went up to the parade ground sumoned the officers: to deliver my orders, at that moment Bro. Loveland came up with orders from Gen. Miller for us to hasten our moves for he had expected to see us by sunrise. I told the officers that if the sherif and Gen. Miller were to give orders and be the chief counselors it was best for them to come back and stay here and we would go and fill their commands, stated I knew Gen. Miller to be a good man only wanted his memory joged and he would send no more orders, and that Backenstos would do as we said.
I gave orders that when the officers were wanted we should hoist a striped flagg on the Temple and when all the companies were wanted we would hoist a white flagg in the day time and until we could fix to raise a light we should fire a gun in the night, told the officers to take especial care of their men, and not run into danger, neither destroy any property if the mobers flee and leave their houses and other property distrub them not neither distroy their families and if they wished to flee let them flee, and when we can we will take them and bring them to justice for the time will come that they may be be taken and dealt with according to law, or that they may be cut off and not endanger the lives of the saints - Let all other work be stoped (except the Temple, let the hands that are at work there continue if they have to cary the sword in one hand while they work with the other) and deacte a time to our protection and safety- we have been enabled to labor all summer in p
eace now we can have a respit and take time for a little fun this is fun for us - Let the companies be now dismissed and every man go home and prepare himself for an expedition, and return here in an hour and a half or two hours with his blanket tin cup and journey cake let there be tents pitched here and this be a general place of rendezvoux that when men are wanted we need not have to run all over town and take three or four hours, to get ready for an emergency Gen. Miller came in day before yesterday in time that his men could have 12 hours and be ready to march at eight yesterday morning and they did not get off until 5 in the evening then sends to us orders for six hundred men to to be at Warsaw this morning at sunrise which could not be conicton the man did not reflect that men who had been up night after night as well as himself would have to be called from their beds in the night- gave orders for the quartermaster to have blacksmiths engaged to do that kind of work,
and to act as commissry as Esq. Wells was absent, and appointed Jesse D. Hunter to assist him in procuring flour and beef to sustain the men - From there I went to the Temple in company with H. C. Kimball W. Richards & A Lyman met John Taylor there soon heard that one of the brethren was shot on the parade ground through accident went to see him it was Issac Tippin found him badly wounded yet I think he will recover went to brother Geo. Millers house and procured a room to hold as an office during the time of the trouble. In the evening a message came in from Gen. Miller requesting 50 teams with wagons and 8 men besides the driver to a wagon to met him at the 1/2 way house between Carthage & Warsaw and orders were isued to Gen. Rich to have all in Redyness 19 [Sept 1845]

[source: Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844']