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I read an LDS account of this a few years back. It made it sound like nothing preceded Haun's Hill (or Mill).

Nope - just a bunch of MO militia men attacked for the hell of it.

As unfortunate as any battle, war, or attack upon another human being is (we are all made in God's image) those are not the facts.

Haun's Hill (or Mill) took place right after a major battle between Mormon armed troops and MO militia men.

Conflicts between the Mormons and non-Mormons in Carroll County and Daviess County throughout the summer put settlers in the more settled counties of Ray and Clay increasingly on edge. This unease reached a bursting point when Thomas B. Marsh and Orson Hyde of the Mormon Quorum of the Twelve Apostles arrived in Richmond and reported that the Mormons had invaded Daviess County and sacked the county seat of Gallatin. They also charged that a Mormon group known as the Danites planned to burn Richmond and Liberty to the ground. This testimony sent the worried citizens into a near frenzy. Women, children and property were ferried across the Missouri River for protection against an imminent Mormon invasion, and the state militia was put on alert.

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The Danites were not a rumor, they were terrorists and murderers. And what they were doing was not fiction.

One of the most notorious of these in Mormon history was Orin Porter Rockwell, who was a psychopath.

Look how LDS rewrites of history depict him (Mr. Wonderful) vs. as he actually was (a homicidal maniac who looked like he was demon possessed):

This exactly reminds me of the historical revisionism rewrite of Joseph Smith into a Harlequin Romance novel handsome bodice ripper, rather than a wimpish worm of a swindler (see $3 bill scandal), a serial adulterer/sexual predator, and a world class liar.

In that painting of Joey Smith the mormon artist has made him so prissy and feminine, but the photo of Joey Smith depicts him just the same way..

However, while the artist changed his looks into a clear eyed runway model/matinee idol/football hero/Jesus image, the actual Joey Smith was barely passed plain and was skinny and weaselly and had blood shot eyes..

It reminds me of the Leonardo Da Vincis painting of the Last Supper...

Da vinci had a nice looking strongly moral man pose for the LORD Jesus Chris...he worked on the disciples while he looked for a “Judas”

Several years went by and finaly he saw a man on the street who was a drunked and foul mouth and a thief...

As posed the man and painted him as Judas...

As the man sobered up, he recognized Da Vinci and realized where he was

He told Da Vinci that he had posed for him before...

Da Vinci said that he had never seen him before

The man said “Dont you remember me? I posed for you as Jesus”

BTW the same mormon artist depicts his paintings of the mormon jesus as looking just like his imaginary Joey Smith...