Gabriel James Rains, American Army Officer
Gabriel James Rains (June 4, 1803 - September 6, 1881) was a career United States Army officer and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, George Washington Rains, was also a brigadier general in the Georgia Militia, and the two were known as the Bomb Brothers for their creation and use of land mines, torpedoes, booby traps, and other explosives. Rains served in the Seminole Wars, the Mexican War and from 1853 until the Civil War he served on the Pacific Coast, where he took part in the Indian Wars. Rains fought at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Shiloh, Perryville and was wounded during the Battle of Seven Pines. He died from his wounds from the Seminole Wars in 1881 at the age of 78
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