What was the extermination order of 1838?
What was the extermination order of 1838? October 27, 1838 Boggs’s exterminating order is issued. Hearing the many rumors of the destruction and insurrection of the Saints, Boggs orders that “the Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good. Their outrages are […]