Second Friday Lecture: The Grant-Rawlins Relationship: Some New and Surprising Revelations

Friday, September 8  |  12:00pm – 1:00pm  |  Speaker: Al Ottens

To Civil War buffs, General John Rawlins is usually regarded as the scold that kept Ulysses Grant sober. But the complex motivations behind Rawlins’s temperance interventions are not well known. Nor are the rare communication skills Rawlins possessed that significantly impacted his relationship with Grant. Al Ottens, author of the award-winning biography, General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man, will provide the details at this illustrated lecture.