 The state militia is really what it is, of Nauvoo, which is now coming to the fore to force the Saints out of the city of Nauvoo. Battles are different. Today, we fight all day and night, but at nightfall, everybody went back and regrouped. And next day, you actually get some steamboats out there in the Mississippi. People have actually come out from Quincy who want to watch the battle. September 16, 1846.