Background
Warren Adams was born in Minervaville, South Carolina, in 1838 to Governor James Hopkins Adams and Jane Margaret Scott.
Warren Adams was born in Minervaville, South Carolina, in 1838 to Governor James Hopkins Adams and Jane Margaret Scott.
He graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1859, where he was the Commandant of the Corps of Cadets.
He was in command of the First South Carolina Infantry Regiment at Battery Wagner, and he served under General Matthew Calbraith Butler in the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry. His great-grandfather is Joel Adams, planter, veteran of the American Revolution, and the patriarch of the Adams family of South Carolina. Adams was also a French professor at The Arsenal Academy, and taught at The Hillsboro Academy in North Carolina.
During the American Civil War he served in many engagements.
In 1863, he was in command of Confederate Battery Wagner, in Charleston, South Carolina where the Confederates defeated the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry under the command of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Later in the War, Adams was in the service of General Matthew Calbraith Butler in Hampton"s Legion of the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry.
While leading his men, he was shot from the saddle in 1865 at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, and fell into the arms of General Matthew Calbraith Butler. He survived his wounds and went on to live out his life at Stony Hill Plantation, Kingsville, South Carolina (U.S.) Warren Adams is the first cousin (once removed) of Confederate Captain Robert Adams II of Richland County, South Carolina.