News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
8 I went onto the mountain above the Hot spring & visited my flock of
sheep and altered 30 Buck lambs most of which are Merino. I then
went down to the Jerdon to find a place to wash my sheep, & visited
my grass lot
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