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Civil War Soldiers - Hawkins
| Hawkins, John P., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, 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. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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