Scope and Contents Handwritten and signed letter from Missouri Governor Boggs to Colonel Hawkins discussing reports Boggs had received about actions the Mormons had taken in Daviess County, including driving citizens from their homes, burning their houses, destroying their property, and "have reduced to ashes the town of Gallatin, the county seat of Davis [sic] County, including the clerk's office, post office, and the public records." He indicates citizens requested protection, and ordered Hawkins to raise a...

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Handwritten and signed general order by B. M. Lisle, Adjutant General, acting on behalf of the governor, to Colonel Hawkins of the 8th Regiment of the Missouri Militia. Hawkins is ordered to be Lieutenant Colonel of a newly formed regiment made of volunteers under Colonel John P. Martin and Captain Dudley Farris from Gasconade County, Missouri. Date November 1, 1838.

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Handwritten and signed general order from Brigadier General White to Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins, ordering him and his regiment of volunteers from Gasconade County, Missouri, to join the volunteers under from Cole County under Colonel Martin. They are to proceed to headquarters where they will together be places under the command of General John B. Clark. Dated November 4, 1838.

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Handwritten and signed letter from White to Hawkins requesting he come to Jefferson City with his captains to correct an issue related to the payroll. Dated December 15, 1838.

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Photocopy of a printed general order from Missouri Governor Boggs stating that funds were appropriated to pay one-half of the salary for Volunteers and Militia who were in service in 1837 and 1838. Some however would not be paid. Also signed by B. M. Lisle, Adjutant General. According to the original, this was folded up in the form of a letter and sent to Joseph Hawkins, in Gasconade County, Missouri. Dated June 25, 1839.

Scope and Contents Photocopy of an article from "The Community," a publication of The Southeast Missouri Rural Community Association, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The article is titled "Some bits of history of Missouri Mormon War: from personal papers of Col. Joseph Hawkins, Gasconade Volunteers." The article includes transcriptions of many of the items that comprise this collection, and puts them in context of Hawkins' service in the Missouri Mormon War. Photocopied from the original in the Missouri State...