• Adam, Emil
  Germany. Ill
  2 Lieutenant 9 ILL infantry 25 Apr 1861
  1 Lieutenant 28 July 1861
  Captain 14 Nov 1861
  honorably mustered out 20 Aug 1864
  Private E 144 III infantry 1 Sept 1864
  Captain 10 Sept 1864
  Major 18 Mar 1865
  honorably mustered out 14 July 1865
  1 Lieutenant 39 infantry 28 July 1866
  Captain 31 May 1867
  unassigned 20 Apr 1869
  assignedd to 5 cavalry 15 Dec 1870
  Major 6 cavalry 11 June 1886
  retired 8 Mar 1893
  Brevet Major 27 Feb 1890 for gallant service in action against Indians at Munchos Canyon Ariz 25 Sept 1872
  died 16 Jan 1903

• Adams, Alonzo W.
  N Y. N Y.
  Captain assistant commissary of subsistence volunteers 7 Feb 1848
  honorably discharged 31 Aug 1848
  Major 1 N Y cavalry 13 Sept 1861
  Lieutenant Colonel Aug 1863
  Colonel 27 July 1864
  Brevet Brigadier General volunteers 13 Mar 1865 for gallant and meritorious service
  honorably mustered out 27 June 1865;
  [died 22 Feb 1887.]

• Adams, Axel Smedberg
  N Y. Army.
  Corporal C 22 N Y S M 28 May to 7 Sept 1862
  Sergeant C 22 N Y S M 18 June to 24 July 1863
  Private and Sergeant B 2 battallion 14 infantry 27 Feb to 19 May 1865
  2 Lieutenant 2 cavalry 3 May 1865
  1 Lieutenant 6 July 1865
  Captain 27 Nov 1868
  resigned 26 Oct 1869
  [died 17 Mar 1897]

• Adams, Benjamin
  Me. Me.
  Captain 33 infantry 30 Apr 1813
  honorably discharged 15 June 1815

• Adams, Charles
  England Ill.
  Major surgeon volunteers 11 Aug 1898
  honorably discharged 15 Sept 1898

• Adams, Charles Francis, jr.
  Mass. Mass.
  1 Lieutenant 1 Mass cavalry 28 Dec 1861
  Captain 1 Dec 1862
  honorably mustered out 1 Sept 1864
  Lieutenant Colonel 5 Mass cavalry 8 Sept 1864
  Colonel 14 Mar 1865
  Brevet Brigadier General volunteers 13 Mar 1865 for distinguished gallantry and efficiency at the battles of Secessionville, S C; South Mountain and Antietam, Md and for meritorious service during the war
  resigned 1 Aug 1865

• Adams, Charles Powell
  Pa. Minn.
  Captain 1 Minn infantry 29 Apr 1861
  Major 14 Nov 1862
  Lieutenant Colonel 11 June 1863
  honorably mustered out 5 May l864
  Major, Hatch's Battalion Minn cavalry 15 July 1864
  Lieutenant Colonel 5 Sept 1864
  Brevet Colonel and Brigadier General volunteers 13 Mar 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the war
  honorably mustered out 26 Apr 1866
  [died 2 Nov 1893]

• Adams, Charles
  NY. Kan.
  Colonel 12 Kan infantry 30 Sept 1862
  Brevet Brigadier General volunteers 13 Feb 1865
  honorably mustered out 30 June, 1865

• Adams, Daniel
  N Y. N Y.
  Paymaster of McClure's regimentt N Y volunteers 15 Feb 1813
  2 Lieutenant 29 infantry 30 Apr 1813
  1 Lieutenant 20 Dec 1813
  honorably discharged 15 June 1815
  [died 18 Jan 1850]

• Adams, Daniel Marsh
  N H. Kans.
  Additional Paymaster volunteers 19 Feb 1863 to 20 Mar 1867
  Major Paymaster USA 17 Jan 1867
  Brevet Lieutenant Colonel volunteers 7 June 1866 for faithful service in the pay department
  resigned 1 May 1867
  [died 13 June 1879]

• Adams, Edward Maguire
  Mich. Mass.
  Cadet Military Academy 15 June 1896 (2)
  2 Lieutenant engineers 13 June 1900
  1 Lieutenant 2 Feb 1901

• Adams, Edward Payson
  N Y. NY.
  Private and Corporal F 126 NY infantry 22 Aug 1862 to 24 July 1863
  1 Lieutenant regimental qquartermaster 2 US c infantry 19 Aug 1863 to 30 Sept 1864
  2 Lieutenant signal corps 3 Mar 1863
  resigned 6 July 1865
  [died 25 Jan 1897]

• Adams, Emory Sherwood
  Kans. Army
  Private and Corporal M 20 Kans infantry 16 June 1898 to 28 Oct 1899
  Private Corporal and Sergeant G 2 infantry 27 Jan 1900 to 26 Oct 1902
  2 Lieutenant 14 infantry 17 Oct 1902

• Adams, Frank
  Ill. Ill.
  Private K 33 ILL infantry 21 Aug 1861
  1 Lieutenant 5 Mar 1862
  Captain assistant adjutant-general volunteers 20 Oct 1864
  Brevet Major and Lieutenant Colonel volunteers 13 Mar 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the war
  honorably mustered out 1 Aug 1865

• Adams, Frank Howard
  Ind. Army.
  Private Corporal Sergeant and 1 Sergeant G and I infantry 17 Aug 1893 to 16 Nov 1896 and 27 July 1897 to 12 Aug 1900
  2 Lieutenant 16 infantry 25 July 1900

Source:

Extracted from the Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: 1789 - 1903. Names are followed by state or country where born and then the state from which originally appointed but when there is only one place listed, it indicates the state whence appointed, the place of birth not being known. Where "Cadet Military Academy" is indicated, the next date refers to the date he entered that institution, and the figure in parenthesis represents his standing in the graduating class.

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• U.S. Military Records on Ancestry.com

• Maryland and Delaware Revolutionary Patriots, 1775-1783 Military Records

  New York in the Revolution and War of 1812

• Military Records off the Beaten Path

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