Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-06
SENATOR'S.
Hon. c. .Powe;z .4da,,,s.

Hastings, Dakota county, WAS born in Rains
burg, Bedford county, Pa, March 8, 1881. He
attended the West Bedford college, and in 1851
graduated in medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio.
That year he located in Bartholomew county,
Ind, in the practice of his profession. October,
1854, he removed to Minnesota and on the 9th
of November that year located at Hastings
which has since been his home. From 1859
until the war broke out he published the
Hastings Democrat. April %, 1861, he
enlisted "a a private in COMPANY aH :"
First regular Minnesota volunteer infantry
and at the organization Of the company was
elected Its captain; was mustered in at Fort
Smelling on the Goth of April, 1861; served with
the regiment in the army Of the Potomac, and
was mustered out at Fort Smelling May g. 1864
ranking as lieutenant colonel, and brevet colo
mel by the war department. of the United States,
He was nine times wounded; once at the battle
OF Bull Run, July 81, 1861; Malvern Fill, July
l. 1862; Antietam, Septemb Der IT, 1862, and six
times at the battle Of Gettysburg.
10 man Of ordinary vitality,
been fatal. The general carries three bullets
in his body to-day as tokens of remembrance
and his life depends upon their not being dis
turbed. On the 18th of July, 1854, he again
entered the service in command of an indie
pendent battalion Of Minnesota volunteer cav
airy, with headquarters at Fort Abercrombie,
and in command of the Third sub-district of
the district of Minnesota. Here he was pro-
n1oted to the position of lieutenant colonel,
frmed by the United States Senate. In
January, 1866, he led an expedition
against the Sioux at Devils Lake, D. T., and
second expedition against the hostile tribes
near Chiefs Bluff, which resulted in the CAP
ture of 17S of the Cut Head Indians. This
little coup d'etat was the work Of only eighteen
private soldiers one officer and the general, in
the vicinity of not less than 1000 Sioux war
riors. 1t was in this expedition that the brave
little command suffered all the horrors of that
intensely cold period. Forty-three days
and nights they lay out on the frozen earth
with two and half feet of snow around them,
and much of the time the thermometer indi-
eating from 80 to 48 degrees below zero. This
was in January, 1866. The storm came upon
them on the 18th. 1t was this awful blizzard
that overlook Capt. Field with his feeble de-
tachment, and in which himself and four Of
his men persisted on the plains of Dakota. The
general was mustered out on the 10th of June,
1866. During the last territorial legislature
regular and extra terms-he was member of
the House and chairman of the committee on
interpretations and the youngest member in
either body. The general has pretty farm of
32O acres six miles from Hastings, in the town
OF Vermillion. He was married to his third
wife Nov. 49, 1874. His living children are
two, "a son and daughter. The son will grad
uate this winter at the law department., Ann
Arbor, Mich. Gen. Adams is descended from
some OF the earliest families of Virginia, and
the blood of some of those proud old autocrats
still flows in his veins. His is an aggressive.
restless, impulsive nature, that no difficulties
can daunt nor defeats keen down.