On this episode of Our American Stories, one was a future president, the other a Seneca warrior-turned-engineer. Together, Ulysses S. Grant and Ely S. Parker would shape the final chapter of the Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction. Parker, a brilliant mind and proud Native American, served as Grant’s personal military secretary and later became the first Native American to hold a cabinet-level position in U.S. history.

Historian Mary Stockwell, author of Interrupted Odyssey: Grant in the West, tells the remarkable story of two men whose paths crossed in history and whose bond transcended war, politics, and identity.

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