News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
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A vary cold morning much Ice on the creek I wore my great
coat & mittens. We visited the Mountain Meadow Monum[en]t put
up at the burial place of 120 persons killed by Indians in 1857. The
pile of stone was about 12 feet high, but begining to tumble down a
wooden cross was placed on top with the following words
Vengence is mine and I will repay saith the Lord President Young said it should be
Vengence is mine and I have taken a little
A stone at the botton bore the following Inscription
120 Men, women, & children, murdered in cold Blood early in Sept. 1857
From Arkansaw. And on the other side south is a slab
Erected by company K. 1st Dragoons May 1859. Most of those
killed were buried some distance North in a hollow & not at that
mounment. We left & drove down the canyon and in a few hours
ride we passed over the rim of the Bason about 15 miles south of the
Mountain Meadow Monum[en]t we came to a vary choice wilfd fruit
on Bushes about 4 feet high about the size of a crambury the flavor
when ripe is betwen a crambury & strawbury they are not ripe untill
Oct some of this fruit also grows betwen Tokerville & pocketville
the ownly places I have seen it in Utah, or in the world, it has a
small prickery leavesf resembleing the Southern Live oak. We soon
came to warm weather so we had to strip to our shirt sleeves
the coulor of the above fruit was yellow but when ripe deep red
we past gunlock fort & camped for the night distance 35 miles
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