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[John Aaron Rawlins, 1831-1869, full length, seated, facing right; at table reading; General] – Historic Reproduction

[John Aaron Rawlins, 1831-1869, full length, seated, facing right; at table reading; General] — historic photograph
[John Aaron Rawlins, 1831-1869, full length, seated, facing right; at table reading; General]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Shown full length, seated at a table and reading, John Aaron Rawlins appears here in a studious, unguarded moment rather than in the formal pose typical of wartime officer portraits. A Galena, Illinois, lawyer before the Civil War, Rawlins became one of Ulysses S. Grant's most trusted advisers, serving as his chief of staff and rising to brigadier general. Grant named him Secretary of War in 1869, but Rawlins died of tuberculosis that September, only months into the post. The print is dated to the 1860s, a reminder of how closely he worked with Grant during those years.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[186-]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,027 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139591

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