Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox (official end of Civil War declared on August 20, 1866).
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I called upon Brother James S Brown who has
lain 10 months with a broaken thigh from a shot wound
& suffered nigh iunto death. He concluded to have a
surgeon open his thigh & take out the broaken bones
G. Q. Cannon & myself laid hand upon him & prayed for
him higs thigh was opened 10 peases of bone & the ball taken out
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