Whoa --- Ely Parker was also US Grant’s
personal secretary as I recall. We
shall certainly be on the lookout.
Also, did you see this? Significant implications for military
collections: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/0726metexplode.html
And finally a question related to the
article above: there is a
persistent rumor that the state of GA ended up with some of the shells and
other materials recovered from the “Expressway Cache” in the early
1960s. This was the site of the
Atlanta Arsenal, discovered beneath the downtown connector near
Best, Gordon
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2:48 PM
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Subject: Ely S. Parker
Presidential medals stolen - not the WashingtonPeace Medal]
>Please see the link below for more information.
His more famous George
>Washington Peace medal is at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical
>Society.
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>
>LOCKPORT - Two presidential medals awarded to a Seneca Indian who wrote
>the final draft of the surrender terms to end the Civil War were stolen
>over the weekend from the Niagara County Historical Society.
>
>
>The medals - given to Ely S. Parker by Presidents James A. Garfield and
>Benjamin Harrison - were stolen by two men between 4:30 and 5 p.m.
>Saturday from the Civil War Room in the Outwater Home on the historical
>society's Niagara Street campus.
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>http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060802/1014956.asp?PFVer=Story
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