[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday April the 4th 1846. This was a dark gloomy drizzly morning & the ground was flooded with water & the mud deep throughout the camp.but all else was well. After breakfast Rockwood came to me and ordered guards to be placed round the camp so as to prevent cattle and horses from escaping which I done.There was not any thing of importance going on to day more than sending back teams to assist those who had to stop on the prairie last night.President Young visited my tent twice to day.the last time with Rockwood and came to enquire into the way and manner the guarding was done.Rockwood gave him an account of the manner it had been done since we left the Chariton which he said was all right.He then said that he wanted me to attend to it on the same principles which I had done heretofore and call on all the men in the fifty to do duty in equal proportion
J. W. Binley took a job of making rails to day for my men for bacon which came very seasonable for they were out of meat
In the evening I commenced guarding according to the Presidents instructions[.] It did not suit the people very well[.] It was a rainy day. My wife was very sick with pleurisy
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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