Footnotes

1. [1]

   Stout, “History of the Nauvoo Legion,” [2].

   Stout, Hosea. “History of the Nauvoo Legion,” May–Aug. 1845. Draft. Nauvoo Legion Records, 1841–1845. CHL.

2. [2]

   Officers were elected to the Nauvoo Legion’s multilevel leadership structure after nomination from the court-martial, in accordance with section 7 of the Nauvoo Legion charter. A nomination and election took place whenever vacancies opened in the legion. For example, on 4 September 1841, Charles C. Rich was elected to the position of brigadier general to fill the vacancy left by the death of Don Carlos Smith, while another election was held to fill Rich’s former position of colonel. Since most of the proceedings of courts-martial held in 1841 are no longer extant, it is not known whether an election in the legion took place around the time of JS’s October 1841 note to Hiram Kimball. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 3, 9; Stout, “History of the Nauvoo Legion,” [3].)

   Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 1843–1844. Nauvoo Legion, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430, fd. 1.

   Stout, Hosea. “History of the Nauvoo Legion,” May–Aug. 1845. Draft. Nauvoo Legion Records, 1841–1845. CHL.

3. [3]

   Minutes, 30 Oct. 1841; for more on the election of aldermen in Nauvoo, see Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840; and “Municipal Election,” Times and Seasons, 15 Jan. 1841, 2:287.

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.