The Quincy Miracle: A Rescue Never to be ForgottenIn the late winter and early spring of 1839, Latter day Saint refugees began appearing on the banks of the Mississippi River opposite Quincy, Illinois. They had been ordered to leave the state of Missouri by the decree of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, and the state militia had enforced the chief executive's infamous Extermination Order. Banished from Missouri and their homes, the Saints took the only route out of the state open to themdue east to Quincy,