Daniel Weisiger Adams

Daniel Weisiger Adams (May 1, 1821 – June 13, 1872) was a lawyer and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Early life and career Adams was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, to George Adams and Anna Weisiger Adams. His brother, William Wirt Adams, was also a Confederate Army brigadier general. Adams read law and became a lawyer in Mississippi.

Adams killed James Hagan in a duel on June 6, 1843. Hagan, editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel, had criticized Adams' father.

Adams moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1852. Adams was put in an ambulance wagon, but had become unresponsive, so the driver assumed he was dead and threw him overboard to lighten the load. Adams was saved when passing soldiers of the 10th Mississippi Infantry Regiment found him and realized that he was still alive. After a month of recuperating in an army hospital in Corinth, he was able to resume his duties. and Stones River.