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Show Into Troubled Missouri uniforms and and carrying state arms. leadership ability, but 91 Its leaders with little were men with some restraint. Nathan capacity felt if that it been had Mormons versus probably mobs,they would have had a chance, but with the weight of the state on the side of the mob it was an unequal fight. or no None of the Tanners were present at Haun's Mill when Colonel William O. Jennings attacked the little settlement in Caldwell County only a few miles from Far West and killed seventeen of the inhabi tants and left several others wounded. But two of the Tanner men were with David W. Patten, or Captain Fear Not as the Mormons called him, in the Battle of Crooked River. Nathan describes this daring ride as follows: Brother Sidney Tanner, Jacob Gates, and George Grant, and my self rode side by side with Captain Fear Not, till his horse failed and he gave us the word, "Go ahead boys; rake them down," and we saw them going down the bank into the Grand River. It was a rough a ride as Old General Putnam had when he rode down the stone Sidney and I were in the company that took the cannon from the mob The enemy was camped at one corner of a forty acre lot and we came to the opposite corner and divided our com pany, sending 50 men on each side of the field, and made a charge on their camp. The side Brother Sidney and I were on had been cleared We had to ride in open ranks, so if they fired the cannon on us, it would take but little effect as they could only hit one man. tavern. . . . . . . I well remember Sidney as I rode by his side through brush and over log heaps. He lost his hat and his thin hair floated in the air as his horse leaped a log heap, clearing twenty feet from where she rose. He was a young man [age 29] full of life and vigor, and he knew no fear.?" Nathan Church seems rather proud of his older brother Chronology describes the battle as Sidney. follows: battle was fought between a mob and about Crooked River, Ray County Mo., in which Gideon Carter was killed and eleven others wounded, among these were Apostle David W. Patten and Patterson O'Banion who died 20 soon afterwards. Thursday 25, [1838] seventy-five brethren The logy a on description of the battle by Nathan and the Church Chrono sounds like the Mormons were in an undeclared war of some |
