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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.
Jul 26, 2022 · Allen Ottens has produced a gripping and illuminating biography of Ulysses Grant’s right-hand man and fellow Galena, Illinois native John Rawlins. Ottens draws from an extensive source base to offer a wide-ranging view of his subject, contextualizing Rawlins within the tumultuous political, military, and social tides of his time.
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. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Rawlins was a rising political and professional figure.
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.
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Aug 3, 2021 · General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens is the first major biography of Rawlins in over a century and traces his rise to assistant adjutant general and ultimately Grant's secretary of war.
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Aug 4, 2021 · Biographer Allen Ottens and Daniel Weinberg discuss the life of General John A. Rawlins, the most important staff officer for General U. S. Grant.
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Feb 13, 2024 · Today, February 13, is the birthday of Brig. Gen. John Rawlins, Ulysses S. Grant’s chief of staff and, later, Grant’s first secretary of war. I recently came across this great description of Rawlins penned by Theodore Lyman, a member of George Gordon Meade’s staff.
