Charles Anderson Dana was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribu
John Aaron Rawlins 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
Charles Anderson Dana
…which he accepted. It was reported in the New York papers the next morning. Dana held this position from 1863 to 1865. With the likely exception of John Rawlins, Dana had a greater influence over Grant's military career than any other political or military man. In 1865–1866, Dana conducted the newly established…
Rawlins, 1860–1869
General Rawlins at his quarters in City Point, Virginia, with his second wife, Mary Hurlburt, and his child