{"id":2593,"date":"2014-08-26T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T02:46:53","slug":"gaines-lawson-civil-war-medal-of-honor-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/gaines-lawson-civil-war-medal-of-honor-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaines Lawson, Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaines Lawson (September 4, 1840 \u2013 September 12, 1906) was a soldier in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lawson joined the 4th (East) Tennessee Infantry in December, 1862, and mustered out with this regiment in August, 1865. He was commissioned in the regular army in July, 1866, and retired in September 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Medal event &#8212; rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company D, 4th East Tennessee Infantry. Place and date: At Minville, Tenn., October 3, 1863.\u00a0 Date of issue: June 11, 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Rank: Major; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel<\/p>\n<p>Citation: Went to the aid of a wounded comrade between the lines and carried him to a place of safety.<\/p>\n<p>Place of burial:\u00a0 Arlington National Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/html\/moh\/civwaral.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaines Lawson (September 4, 1840 \u2013 September 12, 1906) was a soldier in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/gaines-lawson-civil-war-medal-of-honor-recipient\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}