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Confederate (CSA)

Private

William Adams

(1840 - 1913)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son, he enlisted in Bowdon, GA as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 20 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 October and was on furlough home from 8 October to 28 January 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right forearm on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and in a Richmond hospital again in August 1863. He returned to duty and was with his company to at least the end of 1864, the last record in his military file.

After the War

In 1870 he was a brick mason at Augusta in Woodruff County, AR, but by 1880 was a mason back in Carroll County, GA. He was a farmer there by 1900 and again working as a brick mason in 1910, then living in Lowell, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his newest stone has him as James William Adams. I believe "James" is in error.

Birth

09/09/1840; Carroll County, GA

Death

08/18/1913; Roopville, GA; burial in Old Camp United Methodist Church Cemetery, Carroll County, GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33666]

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