News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
19 Sunday we drove to Fillmore & held a meeting Presidents
Young & D. H. Wells preached followed by John Taylor, A. O. Smoot
E. D. Woolley & E. Hunter President Youngs address was upon the
Resurrection of the Dead. He said that some had thought that those
who had lived in former dispensations would be raised first but
this not the case Joseph Smith will be the first man raised & he
will raise his Friends & ordained them to raise those of there friends
who had been Faithful. G. D. Watt reported. I was a bed taking a
cold water pack for the sore throat & cold upon the Lungs
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