Episode 5 of 5
Treatment of Surviving Children
- When
- May 1859
- Where
- Utah Territory
- Part of
- Mountain Meadows massacre
Captain James Lynch reported in 1859 that surviving children were in wretched condition, half starved and infested with vermin.
Captain James Lynch's statement in May 1859 described the surviving children as "in a most wretched condition, half starved, half naked, filthy, infested with vermin, and their eyes diseased from the cruel neglect to which they had been exposed."
Sources
- Mountain Meadows Massacre Wikipedia
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