News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
13 I spent the day at home preparing to go away on my Southern Jour[ne]y
14 I spent the forepart of the day at home A report is in circulation
to day that a man shot John D. Lee dead and Delivered himself
up to the Deputy Sheriff & was brought to this city yesterday the ^the report was fals^
^the^ (13) May I preached a short funeral sermon at Bishop Sheets upon
the death of his wife who died on Saturday night
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