nd.

The Gentiles said afterwards that Capt. Patton told his men to
charge in the name of Lazarus:

"Charge, Danites, charge!"

As soon as he uttered the command which distinguished him they
gave the Danite captain a commission with powder and ball, and
sent him on to preach to the spirits.

In this battle several men were killed and wounded on both sides.
I do not remember all of the names of the Danites that were
killed, but I do remember that a man by the name of Banion was
killed, and one by the name of Holbrook wounded. I knew a man by
the name of Tarwater, on the Gentile side, that was cut up
fearfully. He was taken prisoner. The Danites routed the
Gentiles, who fled in every direction. The night being dark,
Holbrook and another Danite met and had a hand-to-hand fight, in
which they cut each other fearfully with their swords before they
discovered that they were friends.

After the Gentiles retreated the Mormons started for Far West,
taking Tarwater along as a prisoner. After traveling several
miles they halted in a grove of timber and released Tarwater,
telling him he was free to go home. He started off, and when he
was some forty yards from the Mormons Parley P. Pratt, then one
of the twelve apostles, stepped to a tree, laid his gun up by the
side of the tree, took deliberate aim, and shot Tarwater. He fell
and lay still. The Mormons went on and left him lying where he
fell.

CHAPTER V - THE MORMON WAR

After 1844 it was my habit to keep a journal, in which I wrote at
length all that I considered worthy of remembering. Most of my
journals, written up to 1860, were called for by Brigham, under
the plea that he wished the Church historian to write up the
Mormon history, and wanted my journals to aid him in making the
history perfect. As these journals contained many things not
intended for the public eye concerning the Mormon leaders and all
I knew of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and what led to it, they
were never returned to me.

To proceed: I was at Far West when the Danites returned. They
brought Capt. Patton with them. He died that night, and his death
spread a mantle of gloom over the entire community. It robbed
many of their fond hope that they were invincible. If Fear Not
could be killed, who then might claim immunity from the missiles
of death hurled by Gentile weapons?

Up to this time I firmly believed what the Prophet and his
apostles had said on that subject. I had considered that