| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.). Commissioned as a colonel after organizing the 1st Mississippi Cavalry in June 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in September 1863. Major campaigns and battles include the Kentucky campaign, Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg. After the war, Adams returned to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Killed in a duel in Jackson, Mississippi, in May 1888; he is buried in Jackson. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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