Trivia 4-14-16 Turned Down Promotion

[Trivia Master]

I was an officer in the famed Iron Brigade with a middle initial of "R." After the battle of Gettysburg, I was offered a promotion but declined it.
Questions: What is my name, what did my middle initial stand for, and what was my rank at the end of the war?

credit: @1stMN

 

[GELongstreet]

Rufus R. Dawes, whose middle initial meant nothing more but what it is - simply a middle initial - and he ended the war as Lieutenant Colonel, though he was breveted to Brigadier afterwards.

 

[kholland]

Rufus R Dawes used the R but it did not stand for anything. He was nominated for appointment to brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865 but wasn't confirmed until April 10, 1866.

 

[ErnieMac]

Rufus R. Dawes. The middle initial 'R' didn't stand for anything. Dawes used the initial, but had no middle name.

Edit - The question also asked for his rank at the end of the war.

Hoosier

 

[FarawayFriend]

You are Rufus R. Dawes.
You use the middle initial "R" bot do not have a middle name, although other sources (among them the well renowned Library of Congress!) say your middle name was "Robinson".
Your rank was Brevet Brigadier General
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus_Dawes&oldid=711463193

From: Civil War high Commands, p. 204
https://books.google.de/books?id=Fs...nepage&q=rufus R Dawes middle initial&f=false

https://www.geni.com/people/Brevet-Brig-General-Rufus-R-Dawes-USA/6000000000888408821

 

[Northern Light]

Rufus R Dawes. The "R" did not stand for anything, he had no middle name and just used the initial. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of the war.

 

[Reb]

Rufus Dawes, Lieutenant Colonel
In July 1864, Dawes was offered the full rank of colonel, but declined the promotion. He was mustered out of the army on August 10, 1864

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5848728

Edit - Info about middle initial appears in next post.

Hoosier

 

[Reb]

ADDENDUM: Rufus R. Dawes. Middle initial "R" stands for nothing. Supposedly he had no middle name,

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Rufus Robinson Dawes
R= Robinson (obviously)
Final Rank- Brevet Brigadier General
In July 1864, Dawes was offered the full rank of colonel, but declined the promotion.
He mustered out of the army on August 10, 1864, and on March 13, 1865, he was awarded the rank of brevet Brigadier General.
Interestingly, Wiki says, "He used the middle initial "R" but had no middle name." :-/

 

[gentlemanrob]

Rufus R didn't stand for nothing Dawes Brevet Brigadier General

 

[Brenal]

Rufus R Dawes.
R was just an initial he used--no middle name.
Lt Colonel having refused promotion to Colonel in July 1864. However on February 24, 1866, President Johnson nominated Dawes for appointment to the grade of Brevet Brigadier General of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865, and the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment on April 10, 1866.

 

[Stony]

Rufus R. Dawes (July 4, 1838 – August 2, 1899) was a military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He used the middle initial "R" but had no middle name.
Lt Colonel
However, you also have this. Dawes was mustered out of the army on August 10, 1864, following encounters at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. He returned home to Marietta, Ohio, and settled there with his new wife, M.B. Gates Dawes, whom he married on January 18, 1864. Little information is available concerning the postwar career of Rufus Dawes, but on March 13, 1865, he was awarded the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.
source-http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m030.htm

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Rufus R. Dawes had no middle name so the middle initial stood for nothing. Dawes finished the war as a brevet brigadier general.

 

[MRB1863]

Rufus R. Dawes
He used the middle initial "R" but had no middle name.
In March, 1863, Dawes held the rank of Lt. Colonel and declined a promotion to Colonel In July 1864.
He was mustered out of the army on August 10, 1864 as a Lt. Colonel.

On February 24, 1866 Dawes was nominated to be appointed to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General by President Andrew Johnson and the Senate confirmed the appointment on April 10, 1866. (Dawes had been mustered out of the war before then. The most often cited official date of the end of the civil war is April 9, 1865 when General Robert E Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. There were battles and skirmishes after this date, but this is generally considered the official end of the civil war. So presumably, Dawes' rank at the end of the war was still Lt. Colonel.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Rufus R. Dawes
"R" stood for nothing at all - he had no middle name
His rank was Brevet Brigadier General, March 13th 1865

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m030.htm

 

[lelliott19]

Name: Rufus R Dawes
"....wrote the most well-known memoir of the Iron Brigade. A judge's son from Ohio, Dawes organized the 6th Wisconsin in Juneau County, Wisc., and served it as officer from its high-spirited start nearly to its shattered end, witnessing with his men all the wrenching scenes war can contrive, from the charnel panorama of one battlefield after another, to the stark fate of a young soldier dying from sheer exhaustion."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/the-iron-brigade/

Middle Initial: It is rumored that he had no middle name, but used the middle initial "R"

Rank: Lt Colonel March 1863; mustered out at that rank Aug 10, 1864

 

[NFB22]

Rufus Dawes had no actual middle initial but took on "R" because as a child he had a nickname of Republic because his birthday was July 4. He ended the war with the rank of a LT. Col. but was brevetted a Brig. General AFTER the war by President Andrew Johnson.

Edit - No one else came up with the information about Dawes being nicknamed Republic, but I did find a source indicating that it is true.

Hoosier

 

[BlueGrayBlood]

1. Rufus Dawes
2. only Rufus knew
3. lieutenant colonel

Caveat: according to wiki
Dawes had no middle name
. . . however used the middle initial "R"

The offer of promotion was after Gettysburg but not until, " . . July 1864, Dawes was offered the full rank of colonel, but declined the promotion. He was mustered out of the army on August 10, 1864, following the Battles of Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor."

In March, 1863, Dawes received a promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel and served in the Chancellorsville Campaign.

 

[adisciu9]

Rufus R. Dawes.
R stands for nothing. No middle name
Brevet Brig. general of volunteers (March, 1985)

 

[CadmusWilcox]

I am Rufus Dawes.
Middle R: for nothing; I did not have a middle name.
Still a Lt Colonel, although the President (Johnson) in 66, gave me the rank of Brigadier of Volunteers to date from 13th of March 65.