This brigade was assigned to the division of General Loring in West Virginia during the summer and fall of 1861. He commanded a splendid brigade, consisting of the First, Seventh and Fourteenth Tennessee infantry and one company of Tennessee cavalry. Anderson, of Nashville, when Tennessee began to make ready for war, was made major-general in the army of the State, May 9, 1861, and upon the transfer of the troops to the Confederate government he accepted the position of brigadier-general in the provisional army of the Confederate States, being commissioned July 9, 1861. Though left a widow with four sons and two daughters, she reared them, under all the severe trials of that sad period, to be useful men and women. She was in every way worthy to be the wife of so gallant a man. The wife of General Adams was Miss Georgia McDougal, daughter of a distinguished surgeon of the United States army. The general gallantly thanked them, and in answer to our expressions of sorrow at his sad fate, he said, “It is the fate of a soldier to die for his country,” and expired.’ Water, while another brought an armful of cotton from an old gin near by and made him a pillow. He asked for water, as all dying men do in battle as the life-blood drips from the body. He was perfectly conscious and knew his fate. The horse fell upon the top of the embankment and the general was caught under him, pierced with bullets.Īs soon as the charge was repulsed, our men sprang over the works and lifted the horse, while others dragged the general from under him. This letter appeared in the Confederate Veteran of June, 1897, an excellent magazine of information on Confederate affairs, and is here quoted: ‘ General Adams rode up to our works and, cheering his men, made an attempt to leap his horse over them. Adams many years after the war and wrote to her from Webb City, Mo. Edward Adams Baker, of the Sixty-fifth Indiana infantry, who witnessed the death of General Adams at Franklin, obtained the address of Mrs. He fell on the enemy's works, pierced with nine bullets His brigade lost on that day over 450 in killed and wounded, among them many field and line officers. Though wounded severely in his right arm near the shoulder early in the fight and urged to leave the field, he said: ‘No I am going to see my men through.’ Pickett, to reach the height of his fame leading his men in a brilliant and desperate, but unsuccessful, charge.īut he did not come off so well as Pickett for in the terrific assault at Franklin, Adams lost his life. It was the fate of General Adams, as it was of his friend and classmate at West Point, Gen. He served with distinction in the various battles of the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, he and his gallant brigade winning fresh laurels in the fierce battles around the ‘Gate City.’Īfter the fall of Atlanta, when Hood set out from Palmetto for his march into north Georgia in the gallant effort to force Sherman to return northward, Adams' brigade was much of the time in advance, doing splendid service, and at Dalton capturing many prisoners. To Resaca, where he joined the army of Tennessee. Johnston's campaign for the relief of Vicksburg, in the fighting around Jackson, Miss., and afterward served under Polk in that State and marched with that general from Meridian, Miss., to Demopolis, Ala., thence to Rome, Ga., and forward Lloyd Tilghman, May 16, 1863, Adams was placed by General Johnston in command of that officer's brigade, comprising the Sixth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-third and Forty-third Mississippi regiments of infantry. In 1862 he was commissioned colonel, and on December 29th was promoted to brigadier-general. He was first made captain of cavalry and placed in command of the post at Memphis, whence he was ordered to western Kentucky and thence to Jackson, Miss. May 27, 1861, on the secession of his State, he resigned his commission in the United States army and tendered his services to the Southern Confederacy. He was promoted in his regiment to the rank of captain, November, 1856. In 1853 he acted as aide to the governor of Minnesota with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of State forces, this position, however, not affecting his rank in the regular service. Philip Kearny.Īt Santa Cruz de Rosales, Mexico, March 16, 1848, he was brevetted first lieutenant for gallantry, and on October 9, 1851, he was commissioned first lieutenant. On his graduation he was commissioned second lieutenant of the First Dragoons, then serving under Gen. His father afterward located at Pulaski, and it was from that place that young Adams entered West Point as a cadet, where he was graduated in June, 1846. Brigadier-General John Adams Brigadier-General John Adams, a gallant soldier was born at Nashville, July 1, 1825.
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