This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/139.167.1 Message Board Post: Poor young Adams enrolled at Scottsboro in Feb. 1863 and was sent to join Ward's Battery near Mobile. Like most recruits, he became ill once he arrived in camp. At the end of August 1863 Adams was a patient in the hospital at Point Clear across the bay. He was sent home to recover in October and was recovered by the Yankees instead. They apparently captured him at home in late October and sent him north to POW camp. Of course he wasn't well, and travelling north in crowded box cars in the cold wet weather of November didn't help. He passed through Nashville TN and Louisville KY on his way to Indianapolis. Adams arrived at Camp Morton IN on Nov. 21 or Nov. 25, 1863, and died of typhoid pneumonia on Dec. 2, 1863. He has a grave number at Green Lawn Cemetery. A sad case. Please contact me if you would like a copy of his service record which includes the grave number.