John-8 Quincy was the son of H.-7 Eber Adams and his wife Freelove Dunham.
8 ADAMS siblings: Altedore/Altedora, Oscar C., Mary L., Edwin, Almira, Henry, [Self], Clarissa, and Sarah.
John never married; he fought and died in the Civil War and was buried in South Carolina.
John was mortally wounded and transported by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks.
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Reference:
"History of Genesee County, MI," pg. 167, Flint City:
1st Baptist Church of Flint, MI:
"... some of its member enlisted in the army, and went forth with the prayers of the church. Two of the members, Jas H. Atchinson and John Q. Adams, sleep beneath the soil of South Carolina."
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"...Asa's youngest brother, John, had died in the Civil War apparently near Beaufort, SC, and 1864 was the date written on a family note alongside his name, but nobody had ever talked to me about what had happened to him.
"Undoubtedly, it was something too sad to discuss -- something the family had wanted to forget after the Civil War had ended. But for my own understanding, I eventually set out to learn what had happened to him. I sent for John's pension file from the National Archives, and discovered to my surprise that the 1864 date of death on the family record was incorrect ...
"Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th MI Vol. Inf. was engaged in an assault by a brigade of Federal troops under Brig. Gen. Isaac Stevens against a Confederate battery at Port Royal Ferry, SC, which is along the Coosaw River on the opposite side of Port Royal Island from Beaufort; the Confederate battery was situated on the Confederate-held mainland side of the river. (Union forces had taken possession of Port Royal Island to establish a base for their blockade operations against Confederate shipping).
"Gen. Stevens' brigade crossed the river in small boats on the night of Dec. 31, 1861 (173 years ago, today) landing a safe distance away and with forces divided on opposite sides above and below the battery, preparing to close in the next day.
"In the assault of Jan. 1, 1862, Co. A of the 8th Michigan Inf. was sent forward to probe some concealed outlying Confederate defenses in the woods, and as they approached, the Confederates fired a volley of musketry into their ranks. Cpl. John Quincy Adams was mortally wounded; he had to be left behind when his company withdrew from the woods to report observations.
"John was later found and taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers, who transported him by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks; his body was never recovered that I can confirm.
"There is no tombstone with his name in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"... There is only a remote possibility that the decomposed remains of Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th Michigan Vol. Inf. were removed from their original burial location at Pocotaligo sometime after the war, but could no longer be identified by name -- only by the state of Michigan, and were then intered as "unknown" in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"I did see a number of Michigan headstones marked "unknown" when I visited the National Cemetery in Beaufort, but it is impossible to know for certain that he is one of them; even the actual dates of interment noted in the cemetery records themselves offer no hints.
Source: Gordon Adams, 12/31/2014, via email.
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Census search: Fraya Weiss, 2011, 2013.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2013.
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WARNER lineage: John-8 Quincy Adams, Eber-7 Adams, Polly-6 (Warner) Adams, David-5 Calvin Warner Sr., Jesse-4 Warner Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr. Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
8 ADAMS siblings: Altedore/Altedora, Oscar C., Mary L., Edwin, Almira, Henry, [Self], Clarissa, and Sarah.
John never married; he fought and died in the Civil War and was buried in South Carolina.
John was mortally wounded and transported by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks.
__________
Reference:
"History of Genesee County, MI," pg. 167, Flint City:
1st Baptist Church of Flint, MI:
"... some of its member enlisted in the army, and went forth with the prayers of the church. Two of the members, Jas H. Atchinson and John Q. Adams, sleep beneath the soil of South Carolina."
__________
"...Asa's youngest brother, John, had died in the Civil War apparently near Beaufort, SC, and 1864 was the date written on a family note alongside his name, but nobody had ever talked to me about what had happened to him.
"Undoubtedly, it was something too sad to discuss -- something the family had wanted to forget after the Civil War had ended. But for my own understanding, I eventually set out to learn what had happened to him. I sent for John's pension file from the National Archives, and discovered to my surprise that the 1864 date of death on the family record was incorrect ...
"Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th MI Vol. Inf. was engaged in an assault by a brigade of Federal troops under Brig. Gen. Isaac Stevens against a Confederate battery at Port Royal Ferry, SC, which is along the Coosaw River on the opposite side of Port Royal Island from Beaufort; the Confederate battery was situated on the Confederate-held mainland side of the river. (Union forces had taken possession of Port Royal Island to establish a base for their blockade operations against Confederate shipping).
"Gen. Stevens' brigade crossed the river in small boats on the night of Dec. 31, 1861 (173 years ago, today) landing a safe distance away and with forces divided on opposite sides above and below the battery, preparing to close in the next day.
"In the assault of Jan. 1, 1862, Co. A of the 8th Michigan Inf. was sent forward to probe some concealed outlying Confederate defenses in the woods, and as they approached, the Confederates fired a volley of musketry into their ranks. Cpl. John Quincy Adams was mortally wounded; he had to be left behind when his company withdrew from the woods to report observations.
"John was later found and taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers, who transported him by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks; his body was never recovered that I can confirm.
"There is no tombstone with his name in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"... There is only a remote possibility that the decomposed remains of Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th Michigan Vol. Inf. were removed from their original burial location at Pocotaligo sometime after the war, but could no longer be identified by name -- only by the state of Michigan, and were then intered as "unknown" in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"I did see a number of Michigan headstones marked "unknown" when I visited the National Cemetery in Beaufort, but it is impossible to know for certain that he is one of them; even the actual dates of interment noted in the cemetery records themselves offer no hints.
Source: Gordon Adams, 12/31/2014, via email.
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Census search: Fraya Weiss, 2011, 2013.
__________
Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2013.
__________
WARNER lineage: John-8 Quincy Adams, Eber-7 Adams, Polly-6 (Warner) Adams, David-5 Calvin Warner Sr., Jesse-4 Warner Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr. Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
John-8 Quincy was the son of H.-7 Eber Adams and his wife Freelove Dunham.
8 ADAMS siblings: Altedore/Altedora, Oscar C., Mary L., Edwin, Almira, Henry, [Self], Clarissa, and Sarah.
John never married; he fought and died in the Civil War and was buried in South Carolina.
John was mortally wounded and transported by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks.
__________
Reference:
"History of Genesee County, MI," pg. 167, Flint City:
1st Baptist Church of Flint, MI:
"... some of its member enlisted in the army, and went forth with the prayers of the church. Two of the members, Jas H. Atchinson and John Q. Adams, sleep beneath the soil of South Carolina."
__________
"...Asa's youngest brother, John, had died in the Civil War apparently near Beaufort, SC, and 1864 was the date written on a family note alongside his name, but nobody had ever talked to me about what had happened to him.
"Undoubtedly, it was something too sad to discuss -- something the family had wanted to forget after the Civil War had ended. But for my own understanding, I eventually set out to learn what had happened to him. I sent for John's pension file from the National Archives, and discovered to my surprise that the 1864 date of death on the family record was incorrect ...
"Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th MI Vol. Inf. was engaged in an assault by a brigade of Federal troops under Brig. Gen. Isaac Stevens against a Confederate battery at Port Royal Ferry, SC, which is along the Coosaw River on the opposite side of Port Royal Island from Beaufort; the Confederate battery was situated on the Confederate-held mainland side of the river. (Union forces had taken possession of Port Royal Island to establish a base for their blockade operations against Confederate shipping).
"Gen. Stevens' brigade crossed the river in small boats on the night of Dec. 31, 1861 (173 years ago, today) landing a safe distance away and with forces divided on opposite sides above and below the battery, preparing to close in the next day.
"In the assault of Jan. 1, 1862, Co. A of the 8th Michigan Inf. was sent forward to probe some concealed outlying Confederate defenses in the woods, and as they approached, the Confederates fired a volley of musketry into their ranks. Cpl. John Quincy Adams was mortally wounded; he had to be left behind when his company withdrew from the woods to report observations.
"John was later found and taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers, who transported him by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks; his body was never recovered that I can confirm.
"There is no tombstone with his name in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"... There is only a remote possibility that the decomposed remains of Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th Michigan Vol. Inf. were removed from their original burial location at Pocotaligo sometime after the war, but could no longer be identified by name -- only by the state of Michigan, and were then intered as "unknown" in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"I did see a number of Michigan headstones marked "unknown" when I visited the National Cemetery in Beaufort, but it is impossible to know for certain that he is one of them; even the actual dates of interment noted in the cemetery records themselves offer no hints.
Source: Gordon Adams, 12/31/2014, via email.
_________
Census search: Fraya Weiss, 2011, 2013.
__________
Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2013.
__________
WARNER lineage: John-8 Quincy Adams, Eber-7 Adams, Polly-6 (Warner) Adams, David-5 Calvin Warner Sr., Jesse-4 Warner Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr. Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
8 ADAMS siblings: Altedore/Altedora, Oscar C., Mary L., Edwin, Almira, Henry, [Self], Clarissa, and Sarah.
John never married; he fought and died in the Civil War and was buried in South Carolina.
John was mortally wounded and transported by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks.
__________
Reference:
"History of Genesee County, MI," pg. 167, Flint City:
1st Baptist Church of Flint, MI:
"... some of its member enlisted in the army, and went forth with the prayers of the church. Two of the members, Jas H. Atchinson and John Q. Adams, sleep beneath the soil of South Carolina."
__________
"...Asa's youngest brother, John, had died in the Civil War apparently near Beaufort, SC, and 1864 was the date written on a family note alongside his name, but nobody had ever talked to me about what had happened to him.
"Undoubtedly, it was something too sad to discuss -- something the family had wanted to forget after the Civil War had ended. But for my own understanding, I eventually set out to learn what had happened to him. I sent for John's pension file from the National Archives, and discovered to my surprise that the 1864 date of death on the family record was incorrect ...
"Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th MI Vol. Inf. was engaged in an assault by a brigade of Federal troops under Brig. Gen. Isaac Stevens against a Confederate battery at Port Royal Ferry, SC, which is along the Coosaw River on the opposite side of Port Royal Island from Beaufort; the Confederate battery was situated on the Confederate-held mainland side of the river. (Union forces had taken possession of Port Royal Island to establish a base for their blockade operations against Confederate shipping).
"Gen. Stevens' brigade crossed the river in small boats on the night of Dec. 31, 1861 (173 years ago, today) landing a safe distance away and with forces divided on opposite sides above and below the battery, preparing to close in the next day.
"In the assault of Jan. 1, 1862, Co. A of the 8th Michigan Inf. was sent forward to probe some concealed outlying Confederate defenses in the woods, and as they approached, the Confederates fired a volley of musketry into their ranks. Cpl. John Quincy Adams was mortally wounded; he had to be left behind when his company withdrew from the woods to report observations.
"John was later found and taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers, who transported him by wagon to the Confederate base camp at Pocotaligo, Jasper, SC, where he died near midnight on Jan. 1, 1862, and was subsequently buried alongside the Railroad tracks; his body was never recovered that I can confirm.
"There is no tombstone with his name in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"... There is only a remote possibility that the decomposed remains of Cpl. John Quincy Adams, Co. A, 8th Michigan Vol. Inf. were removed from their original burial location at Pocotaligo sometime after the war, but could no longer be identified by name -- only by the state of Michigan, and were then intered as "unknown" in the Michigan section of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
"I did see a number of Michigan headstones marked "unknown" when I visited the National Cemetery in Beaufort, but it is impossible to know for certain that he is one of them; even the actual dates of interment noted in the cemetery records themselves offer no hints.
Source: Gordon Adams, 12/31/2014, via email.
_________
Census search: Fraya Weiss, 2011, 2013.
__________
Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2013.
__________
WARNER lineage: John-8 Quincy Adams, Eber-7 Adams, Polly-6 (Warner) Adams, David-5 Calvin Warner Sr., Jesse-4 Warner Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr. Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
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