| The Mormon Chain of Command, |
| as it relates to the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 |
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| Brigham Young |
| Governor of Utah, Superintendent of Indian |
| Affairs in Utah, and President of the |
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| The Twelve Apostles of the |
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| General Daniel H. Wells, |
| Commander-in Chief of the territorial militia, |
| the Nauvoo Legion |
| (Wells coordinated the efforts to convict |
| Lee in the second trial) |
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| Col. William H. Dame, |
| head of the Iron County Brigade, |
| the military force in southern Utah |
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Lt. Col. Isaac C. Haight,
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| Brigade and President of the Cedar City |
| Stake of Zion (the senior ecclesiatical |
| authority in southern Utah) |
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| Major John H. Higbee, |
| major in the Iron militia and the first |
| counselor to Isaac Haight (and the man who |
| ordered that the massacre begin) |
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| Adjutant Daniel McFarland |
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| John D. Lee and others of lesser rank in the |
| Nauvoo Legion, including Philip |
| Klingensmith (the Bishop of Cedar City), |
| Samuel McMurdy, William Bateman, Nelphi |
| Johnson, and Samuel Knight |
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