Son of Thomas and Mary L. Adams. Private/Corporal, Co A, 7th Tennessee Calvary, enlisted for 3 years and mustered at Jackson, TN on 8/28/62 at age 21. He received a $100 bounty for enlistment.
Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Exchanged through North East Ferry, NC on 3/1/65 and taken to Camp Chase Ohio, Adams was discharged with the regiment at Nashville, TN on 8/9/65. He became a doctor after the war.
Married three times: -1 Marcella Douglass, sister to Wm Douglas in Co A, in 1868, -2 Frances Lillian Pearson, sister to James Pearson in Co G, in 1875, -3 Emma Caroline Bird on 8 October 1885. Applied for an invalid pension in 1904 while living in Kentucky, third wife, Emma Adams, applied for a widow's pension in Texas in 1922. Brother to Archibald Adams of Co A.
Son of Thomas and Mary L. Adams. Private/Corporal, Co A, 7th Tennessee Calvary, enlisted for 3 years and mustered at Jackson, TN on 8/28/62 at age 21. He received a $100 bounty for enlistment.
Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Exchanged through North East Ferry, NC on 3/1/65 and taken to Camp Chase Ohio, Adams was discharged with the regiment at Nashville, TN on 8/9/65. He became a doctor after the war.
Married three times: -1 Marcella Douglass, sister to Wm Douglas in Co A, in 1868, -2 Frances Lillian Pearson, sister to James Pearson in Co G, in 1875, -3 Emma Caroline Bird on 8 October 1885. Applied for an invalid pension in 1904 while living in Kentucky, third wife, Emma Adams, applied for a widow's pension in Texas in 1922. Brother to Archibald Adams of Co A.
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