General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) tea But the shock of Lincoln’s

But the shock of Lincoln’s assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport

the suffering and the ending of these more than immortal men

setting the stage for the Battle of Normandy

But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunity—the chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the “more perfect union” that had first drawn him to politics

He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on

General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man (Ottens - UA) tea But the shock of Lincoln’sby 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