Father: John Abraham "Abram" Adams (1796-1875)
Mother: Letitia Nicholson (1797-1875)
0914/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs (indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as "Patric H. Adams"
1854 - Attended, South Carolina College, 1854 (from: Edgefield, SC)
1860 - M. D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Edgefield, SC
03/20/1862 - Enlisted as a 2nd Sgt., Capt. L. B. Wever's Co., 24th SC Volunteers, State Troops, Columbia, SC
04/21/1862 - 2nd Sgt., 24th SC Infantry, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, Coles Island, SC
05/15/1862 - 2nd Sgt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
05/17/1862 - Elected, Brevet 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
06/30/1862 - Elected, Brevet 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
10/30/1862 - 3rd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
12/31/1862 - 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
02/02/1863 - "To be detailed" [L. R. 155 Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla.]
02/28/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
04/30/1863 - 2nd Lt., 24th SC Infantry, commanding Co. I
06/30/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
07/26/1863 - In a request written from Camp, 24th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, to the colonel commanding this regiment, "Col., I hereby respectfully ask leave of absence for 28 days to visit my home in Edgefield Dist., South Carolina. It will require 7 days to go and 7 days to return. P. H. Adams, 2nd Lt., Company I, 24 S. C. V." [Note: Docketing on the back of this request includes, "07/26/1863 - Hd. Qrs. 24 Regt. SCV, Reply forwarded. C. H. Stevens, 24 SCV" and "App, A. A. Genl" and "S.O. No. 6" All of this indicates that the request for leave was approved and Special Orders No. 6 were issued.]
07/30/1863 - Granted leave [S.O. 6/1 Dept. & Army of Tenn. Gen. Hardee]
08/31/1863 - 2nd Lt., 24th SC Infantry, commanding Co. I
09/20/1863 - As 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry, wounded in the Battle of Chickamauga
10/31/1863 - Absent "sick"
11/181863 - Granted a furlough
01/11/1864 - "Assistant Surgeon Patrick H. Adams will report without delay to Surgeon
Stout, Medical Director &c. at Atlanta, Ga. for assignment to duty" [S.O. 8/3]
01/29/1864 - In a letter written to the Confederate States Army Adjutant and Inspector General Samuel Cooper, "General, Having received an Order from the War Dept _ _ my tender of resignation as 2nd Lt. Co. I, 24th Regt. S. C. Vols. Very Respectfully, P. H. Adams, 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24 S. C. Vols"
02/11/1864 - Resigned as 2nd Lt., Co. I, 24th SC Infantry
04/30/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Marietta, GA
05/24/1864 - On a receipt dated May, 24th, 1864, "Received of Surgeon J. B. Barnette in charge of Foard Hospital, Marietta, Ga., Three Hundred and Thirty ($330.00)Dollars Hospital Fund to be expended for the subsistence and comfort of the sick and wounded, who are unable to bear transportation from this post. Marietta, Ga., P. H. Adams, Asst. Surg. P. A. C. S."
06/01/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 12/23/1863
06/01/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
10/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Academy Hospital, Auburn, AL
11/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Academy Hospital, Iuka, MS
02/28/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Academy Hospital, Auburn, AL, Army of TN
12/18/1867 - Married, Harriett Elizabeth "Eliza" Devore (1842-1879), Abbeville, Abbeville Co., SC
08/15/1870 - Practiced medicine, Hibler Township, Edgefield Co., SC (lived with wife,
Harriet, and one child; indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Patrick Adams)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Phoenix, Greenwood Co., SC
00/00/1875 - Father, John, died in Edgefield, Edgefield Co., SC
00/00/1875 - Mother, Letitia, died in Edgefield, Edgefield Co., SC
03/30/1879 - Wife, Harriett, died in Kirksey, Greenwood Co., SC (buried: First Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery; FindAGrave #77881871)
06/14/1880 - Practiced medicine, Whitehall, Abbeville Co., SC (lived with sister, C. E. Adams, two sons, and one daughter; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as P. H. Adams)
09/24/1884 - Daughter, Carrie Lee, died at Phoenix, Greenwood Co., SC
07/23/1890 - Announced candidacy for the South Carolina Legislature subject to the Democratic primary election
02/24/1892 - Member, Arrangements Committee for a Confederate Soldiers Reunion scheduled at Abbeville C.H., SC, for 07/07/1892
12/18/1884 - Married, Ann Elizabeth Townes (1849-1905)
01/28/1891 - Elected, School Trustee, School District No. 8, Abbeville Co., SC
01/09/1895 - Elected as a member of the Abbeville County, SC, Board of Supervisors, and a member of the Equalization Committee
12/081898 - Died at his home in Phoenix, Greenwood Co., SC, after being in a "bad state of health for more than a year." (buried: First Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery, Troy, Greenwood Co., SC; FindAGrave #77674656) [Obituary of Dr. Patrick H. Adams (1898) The Evening Index, Greenwood, SC, Dec. 15, 1898, p. 1, 3.
03/28/1905 - Widow, Ann Elizabeth, died in Greenwood, Greenwood Co., SC (buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Greenwood, SC; 159490486)

Janet, the creator of this memorial, and Michael Angelo provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/13/2022. Unpublished database