Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox (official end of Civil War declared on August 20, 1866).
20. I spent the fore part of the day in the Endowment House we
gave Endowments to 45 persons. G. Q. Cannon sealed 7 persons
& W. Woodruff 9 couple I called upon Brother Brown in the
Evening & found him quite low. There is quite a spirit of
mobocracy ain our Enemies at the preset time against us
we have received 2 letters from Wilford of Late & I read
2 letters from other
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