Theres the Boy I Can Trust: Dennison Lott Harris First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smiths Last Charge to the Twelve Apostles

A well-known account from early Church history describes how, in the spring of 1844, two young men, Dennison Lott Harris and Robert Scott, helped protect Joseph Smith from dissidents plotting against his life. Almost completely unknown, however, is Dennison's account of his subsequent role as a firsthand witness to events that appear to have taken place on the morning of 26 March 1844, just prior to the meeting in which Joseph Smith gave his "Last Charge" to the Quorum of the Twelve and "ro...