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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 ...
John Aaron Rawlins (* 13. Februar 1831 in Galena, Illinois; † 6. September 1869 in Washington, D.C.) war ein United States Army General während des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, ein Vertrauter von Ulysses S. Grant und später Kriegsminister . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Biographie. 2 Persönliche Beziehung mit Grant. 3 Literatur. 4 Weblinks.
Accompanied Dodge Expedition over proposed Union Pacific RR route, 1867; gave name to Rawlins, Wyoming; Appointed U.S. Secretary of War, March 1869; Died in Washington, September 6, 1869; buried in Arlington National Cemetery; A statue, General John A. Rawlins was erected in Washington, D.C. in 1874. The town of Rawlins, county seat of Carbon ...
The statue of John Aaron Rawlins, a United States Army general who served during the Civil War and later as Secretary of War, is a focal point of Rawlins Park, a small public park in Washington, D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood. It was installed in 1874, but relocated several times between 1880 and 1931. The statue was sculpted by ...
John Aaron Rawlins. JOHN AARON RAWLINS was born in Galena, Illinois, on 13 February 1831; attended local schools followed by eighteen months at Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, Illinois; studied law in the office of Isaac P. Stevens of Galena and was admitted to the bar in 1854; practiced law in partnership with Stevens and later with one of his own pupils, David Sheean; married his first ...
(1831–69). American military leader and public official John Aaron Rawlins became a general in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. In 1869, he served as secretary of war for President Ulysses S. Grant. Rawlins was born on February 13, 1831, in Galena, Illinois.
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.
