Daniel Weisiger Adams

Brigadier General Daniel Weisiger Adams

Daniel Weisiger Adams , (born May 1, 1821 in Frankfort , Kentucky , † June 13, 1872 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American attorney and brigadier general of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War .

Life

Adams was the son of District Judge George Adams and his wife Anna, b. Wiser. His older brother was William host Adams . The family moved to Natchez , Mississippi in 1825 , where Daniel grew up and spent his childhood. Here he also studied law and was admitted to the bar. In a duel in 1843, Adams killed the editor of a newspaper that had reported poorly about his father. After moving to Louisiana, Governor Thomas Overton Moore offered him a post in the Confederate Army in 1861 and he began his military service as deputy commander of the 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment. After the regiment to Pensacola , Floridawas relocated, he was appointed regimental commander and promoted to colonel on October 30, 1861 . In early 1862, Adams' regiment was transferred to the western theater of war.

Adams was appointed brigade commander in January 1862, first in the Tennessee Army , then in the Mississippi Army . In the Battle of Shiloh , he was wounded in the head and lost his right eye. Adams was promoted to brigadier general on May 23, 1862 and took part with the Louisiana Brigade in the "Heartland" offensive under General Bragg . Once again subordinated to the Tennessee Army, he took part in the Battle of the Stones River and was wounded in the right arm on December 31, 1862. In May 1863 he recovered and took over the leadership of his brigade. During the Battle of Chickamauga , Adams was wounded again on September 20, 1863 and taken prisoner.

After his recovery, Adams was replaced in 1864. He commanded a cavalry brigade in the Northern Alabama Defense District. Adams was on September 24, 1864 commander of the defense district of Central Alabama, from March 11, 1865 of the district of Alabama, which comprised almost the entire state of the state of Alabama north of the defense area of ​​Gulf. He fought until May 4, 1865 against Brigadier General James Harrison Wilson on his raid of the same name in Alabama and Georgia. In Meridian , Mississippi Adams was released on May 9, 1865 parole.

After the war, Adams spent some time in England . Upon his return he opened a law firm in New Orleans, which he ran until his death. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson , Mississippi, next to his brother in an unnamed grave.

See also

• List of Confederate Generals in the Civil War

Web links

• Daniel Weisiger Adams in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray. Louisiana State University Press, 1987, accessed January 1, 2017 (Adams' CV, p. 393, note 25). 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray. Louisiana State University Press, 1987, accessed January 1, 2017 (Adams' CV, p. 1). 
3. ^ ^{A b c} John H. and David J. Eicher: Civil War High Commands. Stanford University Press, 2001, accessed January 1, 2017 (Adams' life data, p. 99).