English: Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He served during the Civil War first as Colonel and commander of the 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, then as Chief of Staff for General Thomas C. Hindman's Division in the Army of Tennessee. During a the later part of the war he was in command of he Northern Sub-District of Arkansas, where his military acumen and leadership was found wanting by Confederate general Jo Shelby, who operated in the area. Colonel Adams was the grandfather of social reform icon Helen Keller. From the Confederate Veteran magazine, June 1903, vol. 11, No. 6, p. 245.