Charles W. Adams (Confederate general)
[1][2][6] In the early 1840s, Adams entered into a law partnership with William K. Sebastian, who became a United States senator in 1848.[13] They headed directly for the sound of the firing, lost their way and ended up in a deep ravine from which they had to be extracted to take their place in the line.[2][15] Adams and his remaining men fell in with Colonel Emmett MacDonald's Brigade of Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke's Division.[4] Adams then served on the staff of fellow Arkansas citizen Major General Thomas C. Hindman, who commanded a division in the Army of Tennessee.[2][4][16] In his 1887 history of Arkansas, John Hallum says that Adams won a brigadier general commission for his gallantry on the field at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863."[1][4][17] Confederate cavalry Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby and his adjutant, Major John Newman Edwards each held a low opinion of Adams.[17] He attempted to practice law but the local federal military authorities would not permit him to do so because he refused to take the Ironclad oath.[1][17] There he opened a law practice with former Confederate brigadier general and prominent Freemason, Albert Pike.[1][17][19][20] Charles William Adams died on September 9, 1878, of yellow fever at Memphis, Tennessee.
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