Daniel Weisiger Adams
| Daniel Weisiger Adams | |
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Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Adams
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| Born |
May 1, 1821 Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Died | June 13, 1872 (aged 51) New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Place of burial | Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi |
| Allegiance | Confederate States of America |
| Service/branch | Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Commands held | 1st Louisiana Regulars |
| Battles/wars |
American Civil War -Battle of Shiloh -Battle of Perryville -Battle of Stones River -Battle of Chickamauga -Battle of Selma |
| Relations | Brother of William Wirt Adams |
Daniel Weisiger Adams (May 1, 1821 – June 13, 1872) was a lawyer and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (Civil War).
Adams was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, to George Adams and Anna Weisiger Adams. His brother, William Wirt Adams, also was a Confederate Army brigadier general.
The family moved to Mississippi in 1825. Adams read law and became a lawyer in Mississippi.
He also was a second lieutenant in the Mississippi militia and a member of the Mississippi legislature. Adams killed, in a duel, a newspaper editor who had criticized his father.
Adams moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1852. He became prominent in local political and social circles, and his practice became one of the city's largest.
With the secession of Louisiana following the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, in early 1861 Louisiana Governor Thomas O. Moore appointed Adams a member of the military board created to prepare the state for war. Adams was later appointed a lieutenant colonel of the 1st Louisiana Regulars, or 1st Louisiana Infantry, in the Confederate Army, and was promoted to the rank of colonel on October 30, 1861 after the regiment was sent to Pensacola, Florida.
When his regiment's brigade commander, Brigadier General Adley H. Gladden was killed on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh, Adams assumed command of the brigade. Soon thereafter, Adams was wounded in further fighting at the Hornet's Nest and lost his right eye. Adams was so severely wounded that the driver of the wagon in which he was being transported with other wounded soldiers left the senseless and muddy general for dead along the muddy road to lighten the wagon's load. Adams was saved when passing soldiers of the 10th Mississippi Infantry Regiment noticed that Adams was alive.
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