We also sent an express to Daviess County, and by morning were reinforced by quite a number of troops, under the command of Colonel L. White. In the meantime a noted company of banditti, under the command of Cornelius Gillum, who had long infested our borders, and been notorious for their murders and daring robberies, and who painted themselves as Indian warriors, came pouring in from the West to strengthen the camp of the enemy. Another company of murderers came in from Carroll County, and were taken into the ranks of Lucas, after murdering some eighteen or twenty of our citizens (men, women and children) at Haun's Mill, of which particulars will be given hereafter. Thus both parties were considerably reinforced during the night. The citizens of Far West being determined, if attacked, to defend their homes, wives and children to the last, spent the night in throwing up a temporary breastwork of building timber, logs, rails, floor plank, etc. In the morning the south side of the city was thus fortified, and also a considerable portion of the east and west sides--the whole line extending a mile and a half. CHAPTER XXII. ------------------------ Exterminating Order:--Betrayal and Imprisonment of Joseph Smith and Others:--Camp of the Enemy:--The Howlings of the Damned:--The Enemy Boast of the Highest Crimes:--Secret Inquisitory Trial of the Prisoners:--Sentence of Death!--How Reversed:--A Judas:--Surrender of Far West:--Attempt to Assassinate the Prisoners:--Farewell Scenes:--Captives Removed to Jackson County:--General Clark Demands the Prisoners:--Refusal to Surrender them:--Cross the Missouri River:--Visitors:--Preaching in Camp by President Smith:--Arrive at Independence:--Public Exhibition of the Prisoners. October 31, 1838.--In the afternoon we were informed that the Governor had ordered this force against us, with orders to exterminate or drive every "_Mormon_" from the State. As soon as these facts were ascertained we determined not to resist anything in the shape of authority, however abused. We had now nothing to do but to submit to be massacred, driven, robbed or plundered, at the option of our persecutors. Colonel George M. Hinkle, who was at that time the highest officer of the militia assembled for the defense of Far West, waited on Messrs. J. Smith, S. Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, L. Wight, George Robinson and myself, with a request from General Lucas that we would repair to his camp, with the assurance that as soon as peaceable arrangements could be entered into we should be released. We had no confidence in the word of a murderer and robber, but there was no alternative but to put our lives into the hands of such monsters, or to have the city attacked, and men, women and children massacred. We, therefore, commended ourselves to the Lord, and voluntarily surrendered as sheep into the hands of wolves. As we approached the camp of the enemy General Lucas rode out to meet us with a guard of several hundred men.