| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1827; Seminole War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in September 1861 and was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army that month. Major campaigns and battles include Yorktown, the Peninsular campaign, and Seven Pines. Responsible for the effective development of an early verison of land mines and booby-traps; spent remainder of the war as superintendent of the Torpedo Bureau. After the war, Rains worked as a chemist in Georgia. He died there in August 1881 and is buried in Aiken, South Carolina. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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