James Lawton Collins

James Lawton Collins was a major general of the U.S. Army who served in World War I and World War II, and was the father of Apolloastronaut Maj. Gen. Michael Collins USAF Reserve and Brig. Gen. James Lawton Collins, Jr. .

Collins was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Algiers, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. His father, Jeremiah Bernard Collins, had left Ireland as a young boy to join the rest of the family in Cincinnati, Ohio. Family legend has it that he served as a drummer boy in the Civil War, and at age 16, helped to drive a herd of horses into Texas to replace the cavalry mounts that had been lost to the war. He made his way to New Orleans, where he worked for James Lawton, a grocer.

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