Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox (official end of Civil War declared on August 20, 1866).
8. We rode to the Indian Farm had another meeting with
the Indians Chiefs & Braves after talking a while all the Chiefs
came foreward & signed the treaty Except Sanpitch Walkers
Brother, who claims to be the main Chief he lay in his tent on
his face for about 2 days on his dignity, walker like, & would
not speak to any one, the other Chiefs went on & done their
business & paid no attention to him, after all was over
Sanpitch came foreward & wanted his presents & to sign the
treaty He got some presents but afterwords had to come to
G S L City to sign the treaty. Col Johns of U S Armey
was present Col Irish told him that he could not make
any treaty with the Indians ownly through the influ-
ence of President Young. At the close of the treaty, we
rode to Spanish Fork & held a meeting President Young spoke
to the people followed by John Taylor. I spent the night with Br Wilkins 10 m[iles]
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