Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
14 I went down to my Farm in the fore part with Mrs Woodruff
& our Daughter Phebe & returned in a hard snow storm
15Dr Darwin Richerson was buried to day who died on the 13th He was a
member of Zions Camp was baptized in 1833, has been a Faithful
man in the kingdom of God & died in the faith of the gospel
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