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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.
John Rawlins may refer to: John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), United States Army general during the American Civil War. General John A. Rawlins, an 1874 public statue of Rawlins, in Washington, D.C. John Rawlins (director) (1902–1997), American film director.
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.
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.
John Rawlins (June 9, 1902 – May 20, 1997) was an American film editor and director. [1] He directed 44 films between 1932 and 1958. He was born in Long Beach, California and died in Arcadia, California .
John Aaron Rawlins was born in 1831 in Guilford, Illinois. After working on the family farm, he moved to Galena, Illinois, where he studied the law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and began a successful law practice. During the Civil War, Rawlins joined the Union army and served throughout the conflict as the assistant-adjutant general ...
John Aaron Rawlins. Born February 13, 1831, in Jo Daviess County, IL, the son of Scotch-Irish immigrants. In 1849, his father migrated to California during the Gold Rush and stayed there for three years. Rawlins had to take care of his mother, his sister, and six brothers.
John Rawlins. 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.
Feb 13, 2024 · Brig. Gen. John Rawlins. 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.
Dec 6, 2011 · John Rawlins was born on February 13, 1831 in Galena, Illinois. Rawlins was originally a lawyer in the town, he operated a law office with David Sheean, an influential Galena republican who will be discussed later in this blog. Rawlins was named city attorney of Galena in 1857 and served in that post until 1861, when the war broke out.
