Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
I met
^16^ in the evening with the school teachers association at Mrs Pratts
school House Orson Pratts jr was President I ^was^ much interested in the
exercises of the evening. there was some 25 teachers from differet
Nations all giving there different modes of teaching school One German
school teacher gave a vary interesting address upon illustrative
[page torn] [ge]ography for small children evry thing should be illustrated to there minds
by drawings or pictures of Rivers Cities Mountains Continents &c
then they would understand it R. L. Campbell & mysel addresed
the meeting at the close of the exercises. we had a strong wind in the night
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