[sideways text] Copy of a Letter to Ozem Woodruff Jan 7th 1858 [end of sideways text] Great Salt Lake City Jan 7th 1858 Uncle Ozem Dear Sir As the Calafornia Mail is about leaving I feel to write you a few lines and say that I send you by this mail 2 papers the Last Deserett News of Jan 6th 1858 also a half sheet Extra containing our memorials to Congress and Governor Youngs Correspondence with the Unted Stats army now upon our bordar. We are all well ...

Back to them. a great slue of the animals have Died & been killed ^to eat or the army are starv[ed] of provisions^ & many of these men have Deserted ^and a great ratio would if they Had a chnce^ Had the army attmpted to hve come in m[an]y would hve been Destroyed by Rolling Rocks & stones onto them if we had no guns, but the inhabitants are quite well armed a good stack of amunions on hnd for a New Conty We are now Resolved to fight for our ^Rights Religon^ lives, women & childen and when we ...