General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) ho Using a wealth of first-person

Using a wealth of first-person accounts and maps

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While being celebrated in America in the 18th and 19th century – including a grand American tour that lasted more than a year – Lafayette's heroic deeds are fading from America's consciousness

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General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) ho Using a wealth of first-personby 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