Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of 26 states.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
April 18, 1861 ~ Thursday
Events
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News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
Wilford's father Aphek Woodruff dies.
