[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Strong south wind continued till near noon when the wind changed to the north. President Young was engaged in taking the number of men, wagons, oxen, cows, sheep, and mules in his camp and organizing the same in companies and giving direction how to manage the labors of the camp. At 7 a.m., Dr. Richards met the brethren between the two camps, called off between two and three hundred letters, then returned to his wagon and made out the mail for Council Point, 111 letters and 13 letters for the Eastern mail, and delivered the same to William Miller who had come from the opposite shore and brought a letter from Daniel Spencer, saying his wife and child and his brother, Hiram Spencer, were dead, and asking council how to distribute their property. Brothers Young and Richards wrote him a word of consolation, invited him to move over the river to take [care] of the widow and orphans, and offered instructions about property when he arrived, and informed him of his appointment to receive and disburse funds for the Mormon Battalion, and sent by William Miller.
Colonel Kane was more feverish. Had his head shaved, and requested Dr. Richards to get a Dover powder and bathing tub. The postmaster made out mail for the army and one for Pawnee Village, but no chance to send. Wrote history. At 5, President Young rode round the square with Brother Duzette, who was convalescent from a severe illness, and Dr. Richards. [In the afternoon] p.m., wind chilly from the north. About 7½ [7:30], at the blast of the trumpet, the first division of the camp assembled in the square, when 324 men over ten years old were reported and on bills of 11 companies, and 359 wagons, 146 horses, 1051 oxen, 39 mules, 588 cows, 372 sheep. There were elected by general vote and nomination of each company as follows: first company, Joshua Holman, foreman; second, Levi Stewart; third, James M. Flake; fourth, Welcome Chapman; fifth, Isaac C. Haight; sixth, John Vance; seventh, Sidney Tanner; eighth, Joseph Horne; ninth, W. M. Leffingwell; tenth, A. O. Smoot; eleventh, Ormus Bates.
President Young proposed that each company prepare a yard for cattle, build a back house, keep the yard clean, draw wood on wagons, cut it short, burn it in a chimney made of turf, drive teams back of wagons, build a hay rack and keep hay in the cattle yard, and keep up a night watch. Adjourned about 9. Presidents Young, Richards, and J. D. Lee walked south on the green and saw the young people dance about half an hour and returned home. The bills of the several companies, to 11, were reported to the high council for use and safe keeping. A refreshing shower about midnight.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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