[Colofornian]

Zakeet has posted numerous times on the way Mormons had raided supplies of the U.S. Cavalry, resulting in some deaths.

Per Denton in book Sally Denton's 2003 book entitled: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 (Vintage Books, division from Random House), in Sept. 1857 -- the same month the MMM occurred:

“...small guerilla forces on swift horses and under the direction of Danite chiefs William Hickman and Porter Rockwell began harassing the army. Setting fire to the government's wagons and stampeding its cattle herds, the Avenging Angels created havoc for the already demoralized American troops. On October 3 the Danites burned Fort Bridger, then set fire to the grass surrounding the army post, threatening the survival of the government's grazing lifestock. On October 5, fourty-four Danites raided an army supply train, burning the seventy-five wagons loaded with three thousand pounds of desperately needed bacon, coffee, flour, ham, and other foodstuffs, and running off fourteen hundred head of the army's cattle. The army troops moved two miles away and from the smoldering Fort Bridger established a new camp, which they named for the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott.” (Sally Denton, p. 168)

[Zakeet]

Per Denton in book Sally Denton's 2003 book entitled: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 (Vintage Books, division from Random House), in Sept. 1857 -- the same month the MMM occurred:

Not mentioned in your citation, the Mormon raid wiped out all of the food supply replenishment for Fort Bridger. A few weeks later, another Mormon raid, also led by Port Rockwell, wiped out the Aiken relief convoy.

36 soldiers perished that winter, most from scurvy (humans cannot survive solely on buffalo jerky) and another 20 or so teamsters were killed in the Aiken Massacre.

Interestingly, neither of these numbers are credited to Rockwell in coming up with his appalling total of 150 murder victims. Also missing in the body count is the 450 or so Shoshone Indians who perished in the Bear River Massacre ... an atrocity committed by the U.S. Calvary who were guided to the crime scene by Rockwell.