Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox (official end of Civil War declared on August 20, 1866).
4th I met in the morning with my Quorum attended meeting
in the Bowery W Woodruff & Joseph Young preached in the forenoon
& Joseph & Brigham Young in& H C Kimball in the Afternoon I
met with President Young & the Twelve for Prayer
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