Adley H. Gladden

Adley Hogan Gladden (September 28, 1810 – April 12, 1862) was lieutenant colonel and second commander of the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina volunteers during the Mexican–American War and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He impressed General Braxton Bragg after defending Pensacola from Union Army bombardment and after a brief assignment at Mobile, Alabama, he was brought to Corinth, Mississippi, to command a brigade in the Army of Mississippi. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.

Early life Adley Hogan Gladden was born on October 28, 1810, in the Fairfield District of South Carolina. In 1830, he became a cotton broker in Columbia, South Carolina. Gladden owned several slaves, whom he later sold to his brother-in-law.

On the first day of the Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, Gladden was mortally wounded by a shell fragment, which required amputation of an arm on the field. He is buried in Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama).