13 I spent the office day in the President & called into the office at 3 oclock & conversed upon
several subjects. I spent the Evening in President Youngs
waiting for a messenger from our to bring the
News of affairs with the I left after 10 oclok and
about 12 oclock a messenger arived and reported that Capt
surrounded the at about daylight
and sent a letter By the Heardsman to & his council
that they would give him half an hour to answer the writ
and if they would not do it they would fire upon them
they waited one hour and heard Nothing from them
they then fired a cannon shot at them & the morrisits com-
mencd to fire there musketry and this opened the ball for
the day and they faught all day with cannon and and
small arm the secessionest had some minney rifles our
soldiers had strict orders not to Expose themselves but Brother
son of shot his gun and then
[FIGURE] rose up to see what he had done & stood up to load
his gun and He was shot in the breast & fell & Priv[ate]
Whitehead saw he was mortally wounded & he asked
him if he had any thing to ^say^ to his Father or Mother
He said tell them it is all right. Mormonism is
Just as good and true to day as it ever was and that
was the last words He spoke, and died in five minutes another
man was wounded in the shoulder He was a long way off one
man had a ball shot through his the Enemy have
some sharps & minney rifles, our armey have surrounded
them & our connon is placed within 200 yards of the
they do not know how many of the were killed the
messenger did not know. as they were in there log cabins
the Two prisioners were set at liberty & came to our Army
and one of with 3 children came to the Armey
