Apostle David W. Patten, known by his Danite title "Captain Fearnought," descends on Gallatin, Missouri with a large contingent of Mormons and, after plundering the small village, burns most of it to the ground. Then the marauders pillage the Daviess County countryside, depositing their spoils, which they term "consecrated property," in the bishop's storehouse at Diahman.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
Original Source: The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, by Stephen C. LeSueur, (University of Missouri Press, 1987), pp. 117-120, 138.
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