News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
May 31, ^1861^
We returned to Cedar City & held a meeting John Taylor
& D. H. Wells Preached. We partook of a sumptuous dinner
about 50 persons sat down to the Table. Another Express arived
late last ningh [night].
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