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{{Infobox military person
|name= John Parker Hawkins
|birth_date= {{birth date|1830|09|29}}
|death_date= {{death date and age|1914|02|07|1830|09|29}}
|birth_place= [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], US
|death_place= Indianapolis, Indiana, US
|placeofburial= [[Crown Hill Cemetery]], Indianapolis, Indiana
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
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|branch= [[United States Army]]<br/>[[Union Army]]
|serviceyears= 1852&ndash;1894
|rank= [[File:Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg|35px]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]] <br/> [[File:Union Army major general rank insignia.svg|35px]] [[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] [[Major general (United States)|Major General]]
|commands=1st Brigade, [[United States Colored Troops|USCT]]<br />1st Division, [[United States Colored Troops|USCT]]<br />[[Commissary General of Subsistence]]
|unit=[[2nd Infantry Regiment (United States)|2nd US Infantry]]<br/>[[6th Infantry Regiment (United States)|6th US Infantry]]
|battles= [[American Civil War]]
*[[Battle of Fort BlakelyBlakeley]]
|relations=[[Louisa Hawkins Canby]] (sister)<br/>[[Edward Canby]] (brother-in-law)
}}
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==Civil War==
Parker was promoted to captain on August 3, 1861, and was posted to Missouri to serve as a Commissary of Subsistence. He was sent to western Tennessee in 1862, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 1 that year. The following month he became the Commissary General for Gen. [[Ulysses S. Grant|Grant´s]]'s [[Army of the Tennessee]]. On April 25, 1863, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] appointed Hawkins [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]] in the [[United States Volunteers|U.S. Volunteers]], with effect from April 13, 1863.<ref name="Eicher, p. 722">Eicher, p. 722</ref> However, the U.S. Senate returned the nomination to the President on April 1, 1864. The following day Lincoln renominated Hawkins and the Senate subsequently confirmed the appointment on April 18, 1864.<ref name="Eicher, p. 722" />
 
Hawkins was assigned to command a brigade of the [[United States Colored Troops]] (USCT) and the District of Northeastern Louisiana. In April 1864 he assumed command of the 1st Division of the USCT. He and his division distinguished themselves in the assault at the [[Battle of Fort BlakelyBlakeley]] on April 9, 1865, which resulted in the capture of [[Mobile, Alabama]]. Hawkins was mustered out of the Union Army volunteer service on February 1, 1866.<ref name="Eicher, p. 722" />
 
In the wave of the mass promotions at the end of the war Hawkins was promoted to the [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] grade of [[Major general (United States)|major general]] in both the U.S. Volunteers and the regular army.<ref>Warner, ppp. 218</ref>
 
==Later life==
[[File:Grave of John Parker Hawkins (1830–1914) at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis.jpg|thumb|right|Hawkins' grave at Crown Hill Cemetery]]
 
Hawkins stayed in the army and reverted to his regular rank of captain in the Subsistence Department. He married Jane Bethuxe Craig, daughter of former Chief of Ordnance Colonel [[Henry Knox Craig]], on October 10, 1867. He served in a number of postings and received a series of promotions: to major on June 23, 1874; to lieutenant colonel on September 3, 1889; and colonel on March 12, 1892.<ref name="Eicher, p. 288" /> He was appointed [[Commissary General of Subsistence]] of the U.S. Army with the rank of brigadier general on December 2, 1892, and remained in this position till he resigned on September 29, 1894, aged 64.<ref name="Eicher, p. 288" /> He died on February 7, 1914, in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], outlived by his daughter, and was buried at the local [[Crown Hill Cemetery]]. His wife had predeceased him on April 13, 1913.
 
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