Attack on wagon train of emigrants and massacre at Mountain Meadows.
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October 10, 1857 ~ Saturday
10th I spent the day with 2 men grinding sugar cane I worked
vary hard and was unwell all day Mrs Woodruff made a custard
and all of us who partook of it appeared poisioned we became vary
sick & vomited vary hard we could not learn any way that it could
have been poisoned ownly a spoon was boiled in it that was silver
and it was supposed that nitrad of silver came from the spoon
which was boiled in it. I was vary sick through the night
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
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United States Army Colonel Alexander's letter threatens Church members with extermination if they oppose Army.
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Alfred Cumming charges Brigham Young with treason; declares Utah citizens in rebellion against the United States.