DOC The Quotable Nathan Bedford Forrest: Selections from the Writings and Speeches of the Confederacy's Most Brilliant Cavalryman by Lochlainn Seabrook in History

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Confederate Brigadier General John Adams died at the Battle of Franklin leading a desperate; doomed assault. Recognized as a hero by his peers; he is largely forgotten today. In his life he rode with Kit Carson; roomed with his friend George Pickett; and graduated with Stonewall Jackson. His actions at the Battle of Franklin have been described as "the grandest performance of the war." He was born in Tennessee; graduated from West Point; served first the United States as a dragoon; and then joined the Confederate States in the War of the Rebellion. He traveled from Tennessee to New York; from Mexico to Minnesota and Maryland to California before coming home to the south to serve and die in Dixie; within yards of the most familiar road of his life.