Divine Protection of Stephen Mack and Companions

“My son Stephen, in company with the cabin boys, was sent to a house not far from the shore, with a wounded man. Just as they entered the house, an eighteen-pounder followed them. A woman was engaged in frying cakes at the time, and being somewhat alarmed, she concluded to retire into the cellar, saying, as she left, that the boys might have the cakes, as she was going below. The boys were highly delighted at this, and they went to work cooking, and feasting upon the lady’s sweet-cakes, while the artillery of the contendiug armies was thundering in their ears, dealing out death and destruction on every hand. — Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Chapter I”