Edwin Brooks entered service as a Lieut. in Co.E,10th Michigan Cavalry in 1863.He was promoted to Captain of Co.M in 1864 and was discharged in 1865.On March 13,1865,he was made Brevet Lieut.Col.for meritorius service. ......After the war he was an early supporter of the rights of native americans and testified to congress on the subject..
""In reply to that I may state that I grew up among Indians. My parents removed to Western Michigan in 1840, locating in what is now the city of Grand Rapids, then a village of two hundred white inhabitants, with five thousand Indians in the immediate vicinity Subsequently, after the Indians had left that vicinity, I removed to Northern Michigan, to the Grand Traverse region, and remained there until the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, living in the town of Northport, which was then within the limits of an Indian Reservation. So that, practically, I have had a great deal of experience and personal intercourse with Indians. Since my entering on duty in the Interior Department I have been very conversant - I may say entirely conversant - with the affairs of the Indian Bureau; as much so, I think as it is possible for a man to be."
""In reply to that I may state that I grew up among Indians. My parents removed to Western Michigan in 1840, locating in what is now the city of Grand Rapids, then a village of two hundred white inhabitants, with five thousand Indians in the immediate vicinity Subsequently, after the Indians had left that vicinity, I removed to Northern Michigan, to the Grand Traverse region, and remained there until the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, living in the town of Northport, which was then within the limits of an Indian Reservation. So that, practically, I have had a great deal of experience and personal intercourse with Indians. Since my entering on duty in the Interior Department I have been very conversant - I may say entirely conversant - with the affairs of the Indian Bureau; as much so, I think as it is possible for a man to be."
Edwin Brooks entered service as a Lieut. in Co.E,10th Michigan Cavalry in 1863.He was promoted to Captain of Co.M in 1864 and was discharged in 1865.On March 13,1865,he was made Brevet Lieut.Col.for meritorius service. ......After the war he was an early supporter of the rights of native americans and testified to congress on the subject..
""In reply to that I may state that I grew up among Indians. My parents removed to Western Michigan in 1840, locating in what is now the city of Grand Rapids, then a village of two hundred white inhabitants, with five thousand Indians in the immediate vicinity Subsequently, after the Indians had left that vicinity, I removed to Northern Michigan, to the Grand Traverse region, and remained there until the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, living in the town of Northport, which was then within the limits of an Indian Reservation. So that, practically, I have had a great deal of experience and personal intercourse with Indians. Since my entering on duty in the Interior Department I have been very conversant - I may say entirely conversant - with the affairs of the Indian Bureau; as much so, I think as it is possible for a man to be."
""In reply to that I may state that I grew up among Indians. My parents removed to Western Michigan in 1840, locating in what is now the city of Grand Rapids, then a village of two hundred white inhabitants, with five thousand Indians in the immediate vicinity Subsequently, after the Indians had left that vicinity, I removed to Northern Michigan, to the Grand Traverse region, and remained there until the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, living in the town of Northport, which was then within the limits of an Indian Reservation. So that, practically, I have had a great deal of experience and personal intercourse with Indians. Since my entering on duty in the Interior Department I have been very conversant - I may say entirely conversant - with the affairs of the Indian Bureau; as much so, I think as it is possible for a man to be."
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