Church members begin returning to their homes in Salt Lake City.
17th I called upon Brother Hemingway early in
the morning to get some summer fruit buds to
bud my orchard I called at the tithing office
{Brother Walters came and castrated} 4 {of my pigs alone and one was in the [thickets]}
At 11 oclok: A portion of the United States
troops arived in the city of the Great Salt Lake
from the East tThey were recruits to fill up the
Armey Now in Utah their was about 300 troops
& about 50 waggons they passed by President Youngs
mansion and the temple Block turned North on
the west side of the Temple Block they halted & rested
under the temple wall a short time. An old
gray headed man with a long beard in a one horse
ve[h]aicle he was some officer of the Armey it was
reported that it was General Harney but this was
a mistake I spent the evening in the office Journalizing
Elder Taylor called in a short time
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