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John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant administration. A longtime confidant of Ulysses S. Grant, Rawlins served on Grant's staff throughout the war, rising to the rank of brevet major general, and was Grant's ...
Oct 27, 2021 · John Rawlins was one of Galena’s most revered sons. He spent his first 30 years or about three-quarters of his brief life in Galena and surrounding Jo Daviess County, rarely venturing beyond its borders.
John Aaron Rawlins was a lawyer and a Union general who served as Grant's assistant-adjutant general during the Civil War. He was appointed secretary of war in 1868, but died of tuberculosis before taking office.
Jul 26, 2022 · A biography of John Rawlins, Ulysses Grant's right-hand man and chief of staff during the Civil War. Learn about his role, his relationship with Grant, and his struggles with tuberculosis.
The life of John A. Rawlins : lawyer, assistant adjutant-general, chief of staff, major general of volunteers, and secretary of war. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
John Rawlins. Director: Shark River. Director John Rawlins started in films in 1918 as an actor, stunt man, gag writer and assistant director. For a while he sidelined as a comedy writer, then became an editor and later directed second features for First National in Britain from the early 1930s.
Rawlins, on Grant’s left, was astride General Blair, named after Frank Blair, a corps commander in the Army of the Tennessee. Dressed in a black suit, Washburne cut a funereal figure. Soldiers wisecracked the general was bringing along an undertaker, a macabre joke...
