That on the day before the battle with , I was in the edge of , but heard no man, nor did I myself, nor any man in my hearing order Thorit Parsons or any other man, away from his home— I met with a man in the road in going towards who said he was a Mormon I told him to tell his leaders when he arrived at , that we were no mob, but militia acting under ’s order— If After seeing this man left us, myself & two others who constituted my company turned across the prairie to the head timber on the head waters of log creek, at and at a house in the edge of the timber, I met with a number of ’s company to which I also belonged, and I heard Mr Lockhart one of the company enquire <​I think​> where Parsons lived and I understood the answer to be <​from the man of the house​> that he lived lower down the creek I never heard say any thing to this man <​like ordering him off​>— was over in [p. [122]]