After the 1838 Mormon War and their official expulsion from Missouri under the executive order of Governor

Lilburn W. Boggs, Latter-day Saints relocated to Illinois, where they built up the city of

Navu and a number of other settlements in Hancock County.

After only a short time of relative peace, they were again embroiled in conflict with their enemies,

which culminated in the murder of Joseph and Hiram Smith.

This was followed two years later by the Battle of Navu and yet another expulsion from a U.S. state with the blessing of its governor.

Then it was off to the west where, not long after the Saints' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley,

conflicts began to arise with Native Americans, and by 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan

had ordered a force of 2,500 military personnel under the command of Colonel Albert

Sidney Johnston to march to Utah to ensure that Brigham Young be replaced as the governor

of Utah, which brought on the Utah War. Today on Church History Matters, we discuss all of this,

and of course trace Latter-day Saint involvement in the violence which occurred along the way.

I'm Scott Woodward, and my co-host is Casey Griffiths, and today Casey and I dive into our fifth

episode in this series on peace and violence in Latter-day Saint history.

Now let's get into it.

Hello, Scott.

Hello, Casey. Here we are, once again, talking about Hello, Casey.

Here we are, once again, talking about violence.

Talking about violence.

We don't want to make it sound like we're taking that lightly or not, but sometimes if you don't laugh, you're going to have to cry at some of the stuff that we have to deal with here.

Yeah. I have a neighbor who apologized to my wife and said,

I just started listening to your husband's new series about violence,

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