Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Utah War" in English language version.
Having signed the Morrill Act, Abraham Lincoln reportedly compared the LDS Church to a log he had encountered as a farmer that was 'too hard to split, too wet to burn and too heavy to move, so we plow around it. That's what I intend to do with the Mormons. You go back and tell Brigham Young that if he will let me alone, I will let him alone.'
... General Patrick Edward Connor, the commander of federal forces in Utah, was instructed to avoid a Mormon war: 'Under the circumstances, it is the course of true patriotism for you to not embark on any hostilities. It is infinitely better that you should avoid contact with them.'
outbreak of the Mormon War ... Mormons were already engaged in hostilities with the United States Army forces, were inciting unrest by intimating that the real purpose of the river expedition was to steal Indian lands ... Mormon rebels were among the Mohaves inciting them to murder and plunder ... Haskell's impressions of his hosts as treacherous Yankees bent on plundering helpless Mormons.
On 3 November, Johnston caught up with his forces and pushed on to Fort Bridger . . . .
On 3 November, Johnston caught up with his forces and pushed on to Fort Bridger . . . .
