Daniel Weisiger Adams: Difference between revisions

|birth_place= [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]], [[Kentucky]]US

|death_place= [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], US

|placeofburial= [[Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi|Greenwood Cemetery]], [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], [[Mississippi]]US

|allegiance= {{flag|Confederate States of America}}

|branch= {{army|CSA}}Confederate States Army

|rank= [[File:Confederate States of America General-collar.svg|30px]] [[General officers in the Confederate States Army#Brigadier general|Brigadier General]]

|commands={{flagicon|Louisiana|1861}} [[1st Louisiana Regulars]]

'''Daniel Weisiger Adams''' (May 1, 1821 – June 13, 1872) was a lawyer and a [[Brigadier general (CSA)|brigadier general]] in the [[Confederate States Army]] during the [[American Civil War]] (Civil War).

Adams was born in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]],<ref name="Eicher99">Eicher, John H., and [[David J. Eicher]], ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-8047-3641-3}}. p. 99.</ref><ref name="Faust">Faust, Patricia L. ''Adams, Daniel Weisiger''. In ''Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War'', edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. {{ISBN|978-0-06-273116-6}}., p.2.</ref><ref name="Sifakis2">Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. {{ISBN|0-8160-1055-2}}. p. 2.</ref><ref name="Warner1">Warner, Ezra J., ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders'', Louisiana State University Press, 1959, {{ISBN|0-8071-0823-5}}. p. 1.</ref> to George Adams and Anna Weisiger Adams. His brother, [[William Wirt Adams]], also was also a Confederate Army brigadier general.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/>

[[File:Daniel W. Adams.jpg|right|170px|thumb|Pre CiviL-Civil War Portraitportrait of Daniel W, Adams]]

He also was a [[Second lieutenant#United States|second lieutenant]] in the [[Mississippi State Troops#Mississippi militia and predecessor units|Mississippi Militia]] and a member of the [[Mississippi legislature]], serving in the Mississippi State Senate from 1852 to 1856.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Allardice |first1=Bruce S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeUzEAAAQBAJ |title=Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State |last2=Hewitt |first2=Lawrence Lee |date=2021-12-14 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-9406-6 |language=en}}</ref>

After the war ended, Adams spent some time in England,<ref name="Faust"/> then returned to New Orleans to practice law along with [[Harry T. Hays]], a fellow Confederate general. Adams lived for a time in New York City where he was involved in the real estate business before moving back to New Orleans to resume his law practice and engage in state politics. He died in his office of a massive stroke on June 13, 1872.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/> Daniel Weisiger Adams is buried at [[Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi|Greenwood Cemetery]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi]] next to his brother William Wirt Adams.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Warner1"/> Daniel Weisiger Adams's gravesite is unmarked.<ref name="Warner1"/> but ironically there is a cenotaph tombstone for him in Greenwood's Confederate Section.<ref>Find a Grave mentions a cenotaph but states it is unmarked. On October 24, 2013 the Find a Grave web page for Daniel Weisiger Adams has two pictures of a tombstone for Weisiger. In one of the pictures in particular, the marker appears to be rather new.</ref> He was a member of [[The Boston Club]] of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09362126&seq=297 | title=History of the Boston club, organized in 1841, by Stuart O. Landry }}</ref>