Short biographical entry for John D. Lee by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard.
- Type
- Book
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 260
- Scribe/Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Lee, John Doyle (1812–77), 45. [A] Major, Fourth Battalion, Harmony. Lee was the only person tried and executed for his role in the massacre. He led the first attack on the emigrants. He negotiated the emigrants’ surrender and helped kill those in the two lead wagons. Although he reportedly admitted killing five or six emigrants, his confessions, published posthumously by prosecuting attorney Sumner Howard and Lee’s defense attorney William Bishop, maintained that he objected to what was done and did not kill anyone.
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