The Atrocity of Joseph Smith

The mob was divided in two parts. Those who rushed into the jail and fired at the prisoners from inside and those who surrounded the jail from without to prevent escape. Willard Richards worried that the assailants would travel to Nauvoo to wage war on the Saints. The responses of the Saints to the assassination of Joseph and Hiram Smith, that's where we will resume the story in the next episode of Road to Carthage.