5 Pictures and Sources to Celebrate Ely S. Parker

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The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant. Pictured, from left, are: John Gibbon, George Armstrong Custer, Cyrus B. Comstock, Orville E. Babcock, Charles Marshall, Walter H. Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Philip Sheridan, Ulysses S. Grant, John Aaron Rawlins, Charles Griffin, unidentified, George Meade, Ely S. Parker, James W. Forsyth, Wesley Merritt, Theodore Shelton Bowers, Edward Ord. The man not identified in the picture’s legend is thought to be General Joshua Chamberlain, a hero of Gettysburg who presided over the formal surrender of arms by Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia on April 12, 1865.
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5 Pictures and Sources to Celebrate Ely S. Parker
ICTMN Staff
4/20/15
As this country celebrates the Civil War Sesquicentennial, there is one Native American who lived during that time who deserves mentioning.

He was an attorney, an engineer, and a tribal diplomat, he even wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at the end of the Civil War. He later served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold the post.

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