AUTHENTIC BADGES & HISTORIC MEMORABILIA
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John Hawkins was a career regular who served in the commissary department during the Civil War achieving the rank of brigadier in 1863. Hawkins received four brevets for gallant and meritorious service during the war including a pair as major general. Hawkins was promoted to Brigadier General Commissary General in December 1892 and retired in September 1894. Hawkins, John P., brigadier-general, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 29, 1830. He was graduated at West Point in 1852 and assigned to the infantry, was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1857, and in 1861 was brigade quartermaster in the defenses of Washington. He accepted a commission as staff captain and commissary of subsistence, Aug. 20, 1861, served in southwest Missouri and west Tennessee 1861-62, was chief commissary under Grant at the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862; and on Nov. 1, 1862, he joined the volunteer army as lieutenant-colonel in the commissary department. in which capacity he served until April 13, 1863, when
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John Hawkins was a career regular who served in the commissary department during the Civil War achieving the rank of brigadier in 1863. Hawkins received four brevets for gallant and meritorious service during the war including a pair as major general. Hawkins was promoted to Brigadier General Commissary General in December 1892 and retired in September 1894. Hawkins, John P., brigadier-general, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 29, 1830. He was graduated at West Point in 1852 and assigned to the infantry, was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1857, and in 1861 was brigade quartermaster in the defenses of Washington. He accepted a commission as staff captain and commissary of subsistence, Aug. 20, 1861, served in southwest Missouri and west Tennessee 1861-62, was chief commissary under Grant at the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862; and on Nov. 1, 1862, he joined the volunteer army as lieutenant-colonel in the commissary department. in which capacity he served until April 13, 1863, when he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded a brigade of colored troops in northeastern Louisiana from Aug. 17, of that year until Feb. 7, 1864, was then promoted to command a division being stationed at Vicksburg from March, 1864, till Feb., 1865, and after that served in the Mobile campaign, winning the brevet of major-general in the regular establishment for gallantry at the siege of Mobile. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers June 30, 1865, and honorably mustered out of the volunteer service Feb. 1, 1866. In the regular service he was brevetted, on March 13, 1865, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general, for his services during the war. He was promoted major in the commissary department in 1874, lieutenant-colonel and assistant commissary-general in 1889, colonel and assistant commissary-general in 1892, brigadier-general and commissary- general of subsistence Dec. 22, 1892, and was retired by operation of law Sept. 29, 1894. Buried at Crown Hill Cemetery, Hamilton County, IN Section 1, lot 55
