Attack on wagon train of emigrants and massacre at Mountain Meadows.
^2^ 20th I put my flax in water to rot this morning at 12 oclok
Col Burton with his command of Draggoons or minute
men arived in this city in good health & spirits President
Heber C Kimball addressed them a short time And said
By virtue of the Office which I hold I bless you all in the
name of the Lord & if you will live your religion & do
right you shall none of you fall by the Hand of an Enemy
but you shall eat peaches & Apples in this valley untill you
go to Jackson County Missouri & your Enemies shall not
conquer you. keep your guns & fire locks in good order &
do not waste your aminition for Naught, it is not a
day for much preaching but a day for hard service this
is not much that we have to meet with this fall but next
year we must be prepared for work Gen Grant followed
with few words & told then whare to go for quarters
they went to the variouse places allotted them. I spent the
day in the office. I spent the night or evening till 9 oclock at the Govornors
office Brigham Young Jr arived at 9 oclok he rode down the Weber to
Ogden from there to this city He brought some Letters to the president
& others. I stoped at the Globe a short time in conversation
with Brother Clements who thinks that Allexander would
surrender if he had an opportunity to do it in a way that He would
not be censured by the Government. The army is in a critical
situation & destruction seems to await them let them do what
they will
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