S. Adams

Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Samuel Adams

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Signal Detachment, Army of the Potomac

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enrolled in New York City on 6 September 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant, Company I, 66th New York Infantry on 4 November. He was detailed to the Signal Corps, date not given.

On the Campaign

On 14 September 1862 he was posted to Short Mountain (Short Hill?) near Middletown, MD, and during the battle of Antietam on the 17th was sent to establish a signal station near Frederick, MD. He was there to at least 20 September.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain of Company H of the 66th New York on 24 October 1862 and was at Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862. He mustered out on 6 November 1864 near Petersburg, VA.

After the War

He was living at 60 Broadway in New York in 1896.

References & notes

His basic service from the State of New York1 with details from Brown,2 source also of his picture, as Samuel G. Adams. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report.

Birth

c. 1840 in NY

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 27, pg. 750 [AotW citation 28720]

2 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, before pg. 321; p. 717 [AotW citation 28721]

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