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Article: ``GRANT'S INDIAN'' A CENTRAL FIGURE AT APPOMATTOX.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER
When Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McLean's home at Appomattox Court House 138 years ago this coming Wednesday, U.S. Lt. Col. Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca Indian and the last grand sachem of the Iroquois League of the Five Nations, played a stellar role in the capitulation that, to all intents and purposes, put an end to the Confederate States of America.
Known familiarly as ``Grant's Indian'' by his Union Army companions, Parker, who was born in 1828 in Genesee County, N.Y., and whose tribal name, Donehogawa, meaning ``Keeper of the Western Door,'' ...