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{{short description|American lawyer}}
{{Other people|Daniel Adams}}
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|name= Daniel Weisiger Adams
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'''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]]
==Early life and career==
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]],
The family moved to Mississippi in 1825.<ref>According to Eicher, 2001, p. 99, Adams was educated at the [[University of Virginia]]. Other sources for this article do not mention his education at the University of Virginia.</ref> Adams read law and became a lawyer in Mississippi.<ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/>
[[File:Daniel W. Adams.jpg|right|170px|thumb|Pre-Civil War portrait of Daniel 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>
Adams moved to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] in 1852.<ref name="Faust"/> He became prominent in local political and social circles, and his practice became one of the city's largest.
==Civil War==
[[File:21-32-046-adams.jpg|thumb|Bust of Adams at [[Vicksburg National Military Park]]]]
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.<ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/> Adams was later appointed a [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]] of the 1st Louisiana Regulars, or 1st Louisiana Infantry, in the Confederate Army, and was promoted to the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]] on October 30, 1861 after the regiment was sent to [[Pensacola, Florida]].<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/>▼
▲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.<ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/> Adams was later appointed a [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]] of the [[1st Louisiana Regulars Infantry Regiment|1st Louisiana Regulars]], or 1st Louisiana Infantry, in the Confederate Army, and was promoted to the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]] on October 30, 1861, after the regiment was sent to [[Pensacola, Florida]].<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/>
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.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/> Soon thereafter, Adams was wounded in further fighting at the [[Battle of Shiloh#Hornet's Nest|Hornet's Nest]]. A bullet hit Adams just above his left eye and exited behind the left ear, severing the [[optic nerve]] and leaving him blinded in the left eye.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3">Sifakis, 1988, p. 3.</ref> Adams was put in an ambulance wagon, but had become unresponsive, so the driver assumed he was dead and threw him overboard to lighten the load.<ref name="Welsh">Welsh, Jack D. [https://www.questia.com/read/102735069/medical-histories-of-confederate-generals ''Medical Histories of Confederate Generals'']. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-87338-505-3}}. Retrieved June 20, 2015. p. 1. {{Subscription required|via=[[Questia]]}}</ref> Adams was saved when passing soldiers of the [[10th Mississippi Infantry]] Regiment found him and realized that he was still alive. After a month of recuperating in an army hospital in [[Corinth, Misssissippi|Corinth]], he was able to resume his duties.<ref name="Welsh"/>▼
▲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.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/> Soon thereafter, Adams was wounded in further fighting at the [[Battle of Shiloh#Hornet's Nest|Hornet's Nest]]. A bullet hit Adams just above his left eye and exited behind the left ear, severing the [[optic nerve]] and leaving him blinded in the left eye.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3">Sifakis, 1988, p. 3.</ref> Adams was put in an ambulance wagon, but had become unresponsive, so the driver assumed he was dead and threw him overboard to lighten the load.<ref name="Welsh">Welsh, Jack D. [https://www.questia.com/read/102735069/medical-histories-of-confederate-generals ''Medical Histories of Confederate Generals''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802175407/https://www.questia.com/read/102735069/medical-histories-of-confederate-generals |date=2020-08-02 }}. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-87338-505-3}}. Retrieved June 20, 2015. p. 1.
Adams was promoted to [[Brigadier General (CSA)|brigadier general]] on May 23. 1862.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/> He led his brigade at the battles of [[Battle of Perryville|Perryville]]<ref>Eicher, 2001, p. 99 shows Adams as wounded at Perryville but the other sources do not.</ref> and [[Battle of Stones River|Stones River]].<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3"/> He was wounded again, in the left arm,<ref name="Eicher99"/> at Stones River on December 31, 1862.<ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3"/>
Adams returned to duty in early 1863 and led his brigade at the siege of Jackson, Mississippi under [[General (CSA)|General]] [[Joseph E. Johnston]].<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3"/> Under the command of General [[Braxton Bragg]], Adams's brigade fought at the [[Battle of Chickamauga|Chickamauga]].<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3"/> Adams's brigade broke through the Union lines on the second day of the battle but they were driven back by Union Army reinforcements.<ref name="Faust"/> Adams was again wounded, in the left arm, and captured.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref name="Sifakis3"/>
When he recovered sufficiently to return to duty and was exchanged, Adams briefly commanded a [[cavalry]] [[brigade]].<ref name="Faust"/> He subsequently was made the commander of the District of Central Alabama in 1864, and the commander of the State of Alabama, North of Gulf Department in 1865. Although he sought a promotion to major general, he remained a brigadier general until the end of the war.<ref name="Eicher99"/> He took part in the [[Battle of Selma]] in 1865, and the [[Battle of Columbus (1865)|Battle of Columbus, Georgia]], that same year. Adams surrendered to Union forces in [[Meridian, Mississippi]] on May 9 and took the oath of allegiance to the United States.<ref name="Eicher99"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/>
==Postbellum career==
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"/>
{{Portal|Biography|United States Army|American Civil War}}▼
==See also==
*[[List of American Civil War generals (Confederate)]]
*[[William Wirt Adams]]
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* Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. {{ISBN|0-8160-1055-2}}.
* Warner, Ezra J., ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders'', Louisiana State University Press, 1959, {{ISBN|0-8071-0823-5}}.
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