150 years ago today - Jul 9, 1861

[General] Brigham Young's office journal records: "Pres[ident] Young remarked to H.C. Kimball who had come in that Old Abe the President of the U.S. has it in his mind to pitch in to us when he had got through with the South. President Kimball observed that men that he had met with whether they had little or much of the Spirit of God were in favor of the South. Pres[ident] Young, as of [the] opinion the sympathy of the people for the South was in case they should be whipped, and the Northern party remain in power he thought they -wanted the War to go that both parties might be used up."

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]