Rufus R Dawes (1838 - 1899)

Born 4 Jul 1838 in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, United States

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Died 1 Aug 1899 at age 61 in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Rufus Dawes is Notable.

Rufus R. Dawes was an American businessman, politician, author and soldier. Dawes was a Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War. Dawes served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Ohio's 15th District.

Preceded by George W. Geddes

U.S. House of Representatives Ohio 15th Congressional District March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883

Succeeded by Adoniram J. Warner

LtCol Rufus Dawes served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Jul 16, 1861
Mustered out: Jul 2, 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 6th Wisconsin Infantry

MILITARY RECORD

BATTLE UNIT NAME: 6th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry

SIDE:Union

COMPANY:K

SOLDIER'S RANK IN:Captain

SOLDIER'S RANK OUT:Lieutenant Colonel

ALTERNATE NAME:

FILM NUMBER:M559 ROLL 7

PLAQUE NUMBER:

NOTES: Company Note - F&S ^[1]

Rufus Dawes was born on 4 July 1838 in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, the son of Henry Dawes and Sarah Cutler Dawes. He was the brother of Henry Manasseh Dawes, Lucy Dawes, and Ephraim Cutler Dawes.

Rufus was a Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He served as Colonel of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry of the famed Iron Brigade. ^{[2] [3]} During the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on 1 July 1863, Dawes led a counterattack on Confederate Brigadier General Joseph R. Davis's brigade of the 2d, 11th and 42nd Mississippi Infantry Regiments and the 55th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. ^[4]

Rufus Dawes served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 15th district from 4 March 1881 – 3 March 1883. He is also known as the author of the book A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade. ^[5]

Rufus married Mary Beman Gates at Marietta, Washington Couinty, Ohio on 18 January 1864.^[6] They had the following children:^[7]

Children

1. Charles Gates Dawes
2. Rufus Cutler Dawes
3. Beman Gates Dawes
4. Henry May Dawes
5. Mary Frances Dawes Beach
6. Betsey Gates Dawes Hoyt.

Rufus died 1 August 1899 in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio.^[8] His son Charles Gates Dawes would become the 30th Vice President of the United States.

Sources

1. ↑ NPS Soldier Details
2. ↑ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Rufus Dawes
4. ↑ Wikipedia:Rufus Dawes
5. ↑ Dawes, Rufus R. A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade: Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8032-6618-9. First published 1890 by E. R. Alderman and Sons.
6. ↑ Ferris, Mary Dalton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. Gates and Allied Families. (Privately Printed) 1931. Vol. I, p. 58
7. ↑ Timmons, B. N. (1953). Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes New York: Holt.
8. ↑ Congressional Biography: Rufus Dawes

See also:

• University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library and Archives - Dawes letter collection
• Find A Grave: Memorial #5848728 Rufus R. Dawes
• United States Census, 1850, index and images, FamilySearch (accessed 26 Nov 2014), Rufus R Dawes in household of Henry Dawes, Malta town, Morgan, Ohio, United States; citing family 7, NARA microfilm publication M432, NARA microfilm publication M432, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 13 September 2017, 14:17), entry for Ephraim Cutler Dawes(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LC7F-QH3); contributed by various users.