Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard provide brief biographical sketch of John M. Higbee.
- 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), 255
- Scribe/Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Higbee, John Mount (1827–1904), 30. [A] Major, Third Battalion, Cedar City. One of the nine men indicted for the massacre. Higbee led two groups of massacre participants to the Meadows from Cedar City. On Thursday night he carried the orders for the emigrants’ destruction, and on Friday he gave the signal for the massacre to begin.
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