Charles Francis Adams Lot. 4 books:- Charles Francis Adams II, Union Brigadier General, 1st

- Set of personally owned 3 “War of the Rebellion” books bearing the bookplate of Union Colonel Charles Francis Adams (with engravings using the bookplates of his father and grandfather President John Adams and president John Quincy Adams) along with Collections of the Georgia Historical Society Vol VII apart II Oglethorpe Monument. - The Centennial Milestone: An Address in Commemoration of the one Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Quincy, Mass. Delivered July 4, 1892, signed / presented by C.F. Adams. Adams served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry on December 28, 1861. He was promoted to captain on December 1, 1862. He fought with distinction during the Gettysburg Campaign, where his company was heavily engaged at the Battle of Aldie. When the regiment's 3-year enlistment ended it was reduced to a battalion, and Adams was mustered out of service on September 1, 1864. On September 8, 1864, he was commissioned as the lieutenant colonel of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (officially designated "5th Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry"). He was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the regiment on March 14, 1865, shortly before the end of the war. When he assumed command, the regiment was assigned guarding Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. Adams, who wished to lead his regiment in combat, was able to get horses for his regiment and had it reassigned to front-line duty during the closing days of the campaign against Richmond. Adams wrote in his autobiography that he regretted having his unit reassigned since he came to the conclusion that the regiment's black soldiers were ill-suited for combat duty. He led his regiment into Richmond shortly after it was captured in April 1865. Adams returned to Massachusetts in May due to illness (probably dysentery) and resigned from the Army on August 1, 1865. On July 9, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Colonel Adams for the award of the rank of brevet (honorary) brigadier general, United States Volunteers, "for distinguished gallantry and efficiency at the battles of Secessionville, South Carolina and South Mountain and Antietam, Maryland, and for meritorious services during the war" to rank from March 13, 1865, and the U. S. Senate confirmed the award on July 23, 1866. Adams was a Veteran Companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.