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General John Aaron Rawlings CDV with a Vicksburg backmark!

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A nice image of General John A. Rawlins with a Vicksburg backmark.  The image is a bust shot with "Brig Genl Rawlins" in period ink written on the front below the image.  The backmark is "Barr & Young, Army Photographers, Vicksburg, Mississippi". 
 
General Rawlins started his CIvil War career by teaming up with an ex-captain of the army who clerked in his brother's leather store, U.S. Grant.  Within eight years Grant would be President and rawlins his Secretary of War.  Grant asked Rawlins to be his aide-de-camp, and on August 30, 1861, he was commisioned captain and assistant adjutant general on the staff of Grant, who was then brigadier general.  As Grant attained fame and promotion, he secured for Rawlins appropriate advances in grade: he was made major on May 14, 1862; Lt. Colonel November, 1862; brigadier general of volunteers August 11, 1863; and brigadier general, chief of staff, U.S. Army, to rank March 3, 1865.  Rawlins was also brevetted major general in both the volunteer and regularservices. 


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