The Seneca Man Who Wrote The Surrender Terms At Appomattox – Then Became America’s First Native Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
He had written the document.
He had stood in the room as Grant and Lee negotiated the end of the war.
This was, by any reasonable assessment, one of the most consequential moments in American history, and Parker had played a documented and significant role in it.
Yet the accounts that survive of his later years do not suggest that he led with this in his public identity or his social conversations.
He discussed it when directly asked, and he provided accounts that were generally consistent with other documentation of the event.
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