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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 13 Page: 231 (~1838)

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231 off, Allen England was shot in the thigh, and -Hart in the arm.

"The Mormon killed and mortally wounded numbered seventeen. Here are the names:-

Thomas McBride,

Augustine Harmer,

Levi N. Merrick,

Simon Cox,

Elias Benner,

Hiram Abbott,

Josiah Fuller,

John York,

Benjamin Lewis,

John Lee,

Alexander Campbell,

John Byers,

George S. Richards,

Warren Smith,

William Napier,

Charles Merrick, aged 9,

Sardius Smith, aged 10.

"The severely wounded numbered eleven men, one boy (Alma Smith, aged 7), and one woman, a Miss Mary Stedwell. The latter was shot through the hand and arm as she was running to the woods.

"Dies ir� Bloody work and woeful. What a scene did Colonel Jennings and his men turn their backs upon as they rode away in the gloaming from the little valley once all green and peaceful! The wounded men had been given no attention, and the bodies of the slain had been left to fester and putrefy in the Indian summer temperature, warm and mellowing. A large red moon rose, and a fog came up from the stream and lay like a facecloth upon the pallid countenances of the dead. Timidly and warily came forth the widows and orphans from their hiding places, and as they recognized one a husband, one a father, another a son, and another a brother among the slain, the wailings of grief and terror were most pitiful. All that night were they alone with their dead and wounded. There were no physicians, but if there had been many of the wounded were past all surgery. Dreadful sights in the moonlight, and dreadful sounds on the night winds. In the hamlet the groans of the wounded, the moans and sobs of the grief-stricken, the bellowing of cattle, and the howling of dogs, and from the black woods the dismal hooting of owls.

"By and by, when the wounded had been made as comfortable as possible, the few men who had returned gathered the women and children together, and all sought consolation

(page 231)

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