John Randolph Adams

Son of physician Boaz Adams, who died when John was about 8, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Nancy Patterson Adams, 5 siblings, and 2 slaves on their farm near Graham in Alamance County, NC. He enlisted there on 8 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded in his right side in action and captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 17 October, then sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 24 October, furloughed home on 10 November, and absent on wounded furlough to about February 1863. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 29 June, was 2nd Corporal by September, and was appointed First Corporal on 5 March 1864. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant on 30 April. He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until his release on 23 June 1865.

In 1870 he was again living with his mother and siblings at Patterson in Alamance County but by 1880 and to at least 1910 was farming his own place there.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/29/1841

08/30/1917; Greensboro, NC; burial in Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, NC