Battle of Crooked River

Battle of Crooked River
	Part of Missouri Mormon War and Mormon Wars
	; A painting of the Battle of Crooked River, October 24th 1838
Date	24 October 1838
Location	Crooked River, Missouri
Result	Latter Day Saint victory
Belligerents
Latter Day Saint (Mormon) forces	Missouri state militia
Commanders and leaders
David W. Patten†	David Rice Atchison; Samuel Bogart
Strength
Unknown	1 company
Casualties and losses
3 killed, 8 wounded	1 killed, 1 wounded

39°29′50.45″N 94°7′36.96″W

The Battle of Crooked River was a skirmish between Latter Day Saints forces and a Missouri state militia unit from southeast of Elmira, Missouri, in Ray County; the militia was under the command of Samuel Bogart. The battle was one of the principal points of conflict in the 1838 Missouri Mormon War. After the battle, the governor of Missouri issued Missouri Executive Order 44, sometimes called the "Extermination Order", which led to the expulsion of the Mormons from Missouri.

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