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Major-Generals and brigadier-generals, pro-visional army of the Confederate States, Accredited to Louisiana.
Brigadier-General Daniel W. Adams—‘
Dan Adams,’ as he was familiarly called—was one of the gallant leaders so well known in the military operations in
Tennessee,
Kentucky,
Alabama and
Mississippi.
At the call to arms in 1861 he hastened to the defense of the
South and entered the field as second-lieutenant of
Mississippi State troops.
On October 30, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the First regiment, Louisiana infantry, at
Pensacola, brigade of
General Gladden.
Later he served at
Mobile.
When, in the spring of 1862, the forces of
Albert Sidney Johnston and
Beauregard were being concentrated at
Corinth for the advance upon
Grant, the First Louisiana was in
Wither's division of the corps commanded by
Gen. Braxton Bragg.
On the first day at
Shiloh these troops were in the fierce fight with the division of
Prentiss which fought so stoutly that day until at last surrounded and captured.
Early in the day the able brigade commander,
Gladden, was killed, and not long after the gallant
Col. Dan. Adams was borne from the field seriously wounded.
On May 23, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general.
He recovered from his wound in time to lead his command in the
Kentucky campaign.
At
Perryville,
Adams' brigade was in the division of
Patton Anderson attached to the wing led by
General Hardee, who commended
Adams for his gallantry.
The Confederates in this battle pressed steadily forward all along the line, and on both wings, forcing the
Federals back nearly a mile, capturing prisoners, guns and colors, and stopping only when darkness compelled a cessation of hostilities.
On December 31st at the
battle of Murfreesboro or
Stone's river,
Adams' brigade was detached from
Breckinridge's division of
