Private

May 11, 1861. Transferred to Co. L, April 19, 1862; to Co. B, 2d Battn. Ga. Sharpshooters.

July 1862. Wounded at Chickamauga, Ga. September 20,1863. Absent, wounded, August 31,1864. No later record.

CSA.

Pvt. Joseph R. Adams, Company K and Company L, 5th Georgia Infantry and Company B, 2nd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion. Adams enlisted in Macon, Georgia on 11 May 1861 in Company K, which later became Company L, with Company L later forming Company B of the 2nd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion. Adams served until he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia on 20 September 1863. His last military file lists him as absent wounded in August 1864.

Married on Nov 5, 1863.

The following announcement was published in the Butler Herald newspaper dated Dec 23, 1920, page 3:

A GOOD MAN CALLED

TO HIS REWARD

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On Saturday morning Dec. 18th occurred the death of Mr. J. R. Adams at the State Sanitarium at Milledgeville after a short illness, It was a great shock to his many friends here, he being a former resident of this place.

He was a faithful member of the Primitive Baptist church at Shiloh for a number of years. He was a Confederate veteran in his seventy-eighth year of age.

A truer friend, or better neighbor no community ever had than Mr. Adams. Left a place vacant in that home that never can be filled. We would not if we could call him back we had rather trust in Jesus, follow his precepts and examples and some day be reunited with him on the other shore.

He is survived by his wife, four sons and four daughters. His remains were laid to rest in the family lot of Howard cemetery Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Hunt. Their many friends deeply sumpathioze with the family in this their sad bereavement.

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