From: Confederate Military History Extended Edition.  Edited by Gen. 
Clement A. Evans of Georgia.  Wilmington, NC. Broadfoot Publishing 
Company, 1987; page 139.

ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND 
PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA.

*LIEUTENANT JAMES P. ADAMS*

Lieutenant James P. Adams, a Confederate veteran has resided at Wheeling,
W. Va., entered the service in June, 1861, as a member of the
Shriver Grays, an organization formed in Ohio county, in the
heart of the "Panhandle," and mustered into service as Company G,
of the Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment. With this command
Mr. Adams served as a private until the winter of 1863-64, in the
meantime participating in the early skirmishes on Virginia soil
before Washington, D. C., and in the spring of 1862 serving under
Stonewall Jackson in his famous Shenandoah campaign, including the
battles of Kernstown, Cross Keys, and Port Republic, in which
Private Adams was a gallant participant. In the winter of 1863-64
he was transferred to Clark's Baltimore battalion as first
lieutenant. In this rank he fought in the campaigns of 1864,
particularly in the battle against Grant's army at Cold Harbor,
and in the battle of New Market, where he lost his right 
arm, an injury which ended his active service. Nevertheless he 
continued in the army, and in the winter of i865 he was put in charge 
of the invalid corps at Richmond, where he remained until the 
evacuation. At the time of the surrender of the army of Northern 
Virginia he was at Charlottesville. He was paroled at Richmond in 
June, 1865, and soon afterward returned to Wheeling, where he has 
subsequently resided and is now in the insurance business.


(Linda Fluharty)