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William Ruben Rowley, (February 8, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a lieutenant colonel and Military Secretary [a] on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War later being brevetted a brigadier general.
Statue by George E. Ganiere at Vicksburg National Military Park. When the Civil War began in 1861, Smith served as an aide de camp to Illinois Governor Richard Yates.On December 26, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, with the rank backdated to July 23, 1861, to replace the previous Colonel who resigned his state Commission when the regiment entered ...
He was brevetted a brigadier general for his actions at the Battle of Chickamauga. [1] Smith was badly wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, but survived. [2] When the war ended, Smith returned to Galena and was named Assistant Assessor of the Internal Revenue for Jo Daviess County. Smith left Galena in 1874 to return to Chicago, where he ...
The $2 bill was first printed in 1862 and is still in circulation today. It originally featured a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, but that changed with an 1869 redesign that put Thomas Jefferson ...
Throughout the $2 bill's pre-1929 life as a large-sized note, it was issued as a United States Note, a National Bank Note, a Silver Certificate, a Treasury or "Coin" Note, and a Federal Reserve Bank Note. When U.S. currency was redesigned and reduced to its current size, in 1928, the $2 bill was issued only as a United States Note.
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According to Grammont, Civil War Generals 2 was a commercial success and surpassed sales expectations at Sierra by "a lot". [2] The game's Ultimate Civil War Collection bundle, which contained its predecessor, rose from 58th place in June 1998 to #7 in July on NPD SofTrends' reference software sales charts. [8]
John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 – September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant administration. A longtime confidant of Ulysses S. Grant , Rawlins served on Grant's staff throughout the war, rising to the rank of brevet major general , and was Grant's chief ...