General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) cannon Released: July 1

Released: July 1

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Army after the Civil War and served two terms as president

Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15

He was dismissed as a “smutty joker

General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) cannon Released: July 1by Allen J. Ottens No one succeeds alone, and Ulysses S. Grant was no exception. From the earliest days of the Civil War to the heights of Grant's power in the White House, John A. Rawlins was ever at Grant's side. Yet Rawlins's role in Grant's career is often overlooked, and he barely received mention in Grant's own two volume Memoirs. General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens is the first major biography of Rawlins in over a