Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration.
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Journal Entry
January 11, 1865 ~ Wednesday
11
I wrote a Letter to Wilford & sent him £9
Nine Pounds sterling £5 for W W & £4 for linen & 23 likenesses
^W. W., P. W. W. & Wilford Leslie^
I spent the afternoon in the council and attended
a meeting of the D. A & M. Society.
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Snow, Leslie Woodruff
6 Feb 1862 - 28 Nov 1935
181 mentions
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
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Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
719 mentions
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Sunday Jan 1, 1865 Jan 1, 1865 This is the commencement of a New Year The past year has been an Eventful year in many respects Esspecially in the history of the United States war has contine- ued to rage with awful carnage through the year between the North & South, and apparently with No prospect of peace. All Nations steem to be prepareing for war and great calamity await the wicked. yet Zion still prospers and God is with her He defends Zion & sustains his servants
~ Wilford Woodruff
E. T. Benson spoke in the morning & President Young in the afternoon which was a vary interesting discourse He conveyed the idea that Adam & Eve done right in partaking of the forbidden fruit they were sent to the Earth to do it that man might know the contrast good & Evil
~ Brigham Young
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