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to Mary E. Hurlbut

Discusses his love for her and Ulysses Grant's drinking problem. To his fiancée, with pencil lines between the pen. On Grant's drinking: "The necessity of my presence has made almost absolute, by the free use of intoxicating spirits liquors at Head...

GLC05606

Albumen of Ulysses S. Grant and staff

A studio portrait of Grant and twelve members of his staff, including Rawlins, Parker, and others. No imprint, but identified as Gardiner by R. Mark Katz.

GLC06010

to Charles Smith Hamilton

Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant General under Ulysses S. Grant, writes to Hamilton, commander of the Left Wing of the Army of Tennessee. Transmits copied dispatch from General James Birdseye McPherson (not included), and instructs Hamilton: "hold one of...

GLC02463.18

Engraving of John Aaron Rawlins

C.B. Richardson, Publisher.

GLC02463.52

to John Rawlins

Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, writes to General Rawlins. Recently received intelligence from an officer of Confederate Nathaniel Harrison Harris's Brigade, William Mahone's Division. Reports that the officer was in Petersburg the...

GLC02455.09

to John Aaron Rawlins

General Ord writes to Rawlins, Chief of Staff, General Headquarters of the United States Army. Encloses a report of Brevet Brigadier General Hoyt (report not included), whom Ord had sent to Cleveland, Ohio under special telegraphic instructions....

GLC02456.20

to John Aaron Rawlins

General Sherman states that he will travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, on 30 November 1865, and will leave Colonel R. M. Sawyer, Assistant Adjutant General of the Military Division of the Mississippi, in charge in his absence. Reports that he sent...

GLC04039

Engraving of John Aaron Rawlins

One engraving of John Aaron Rawlins dated circa 1865. Bust portrait of Rawlins.

GLC08878.0553

[Ulysses S. Grant and staff after Battle of the Wilderness]

Twelve men with Grant, in front of tent, holding map. At Cold Habor, Va. Meade is seated with map on knee. Sedgewick standing at right with map, with other staff members; he was killed shortly after this picture was taken. Also included in the...

GLC00588

to John Sherman

He mentions changes to the New York City Customs House. He writes on the behalf of an H. H. Smith, a weigher and also a brother-in-law of John Rawlins, a close personal friend of Grant and former Union General. He explains that Smith's "record has...

GLC00695

to E. A. Collins

Grant discusses surrounding Rebel forces and writes that he only has the power to appoint two officers. These two men will be his aides-de camp, and he wishes to appoint John A. Rawlins and "Thompson" from his previous command. He states "The papers...

GLC00705

[Grant's endorsement on docket of an autograph letter signed from Henry S. Hewit to John A. Rawlins]

In his letter to Rawlins, Hewit requests the use of a steam boat as a hospital, and requests that no transfers of sick men be made at this time. The letter is dated 20 March 1862. Grant's undated docket reads "Surgeon Hewit, Medical Director, will...

GLC00255.02

to John Aaron Rawlins

Written at Smith's Plantation, Headquarters of the Department of the Tennessee, to Colonel Rawlins, General Grant's aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant. J. H. [Hewit?], possibly a Secretary of the United States Volunteers, states "it is a matter of...

GLC00255.03

[Group portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff]

View of Grant and his staff, including Gen. John A. Rawlins, Gen. Cyrus B. Comstock, Col. Henry W. Janes, Major William M. Dunn, Gen. Michael R. Morgan, Gen. Orville E. Babcock, Capt. Peter T. Hudson, and Gen. Ely S. Parker. Names of Grant's staff...

GLC07808.038