Thursday, March 10, 2022

Washington Franklin Adams

BIRTH	17 Oct 1836
DEATH	9 Mar 1915 (aged 78)
BURIAL	Mount Moriah Cemetery Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

W F Adams

in the Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958

Name:	W F Adams
Application Date:	29 Mar 1915
Application Place:	Nacogdoches
Spouse:	Mrs Sarah Adams
Marriage Date:	18 Feb 1860
Marriage Place:	San Augustine, Texas
Death Date:	9 Mar 1915
Death Place:	Nacogdoches, Texas
Pension File Number:	30853
Application Type:	Widow

Washington F. Adams

in the Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2017

Name: Washington F. Adams
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 19 Feb 1860
Marriage Place: San Augustine, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sarah Taylor

Name:	Washington F. Adams
Gender:	Male
Marriage Date:	19 Feb 1860
Marriage Place:	San Augustine, Texas, USA
Spouse:	Sarah Taylor

Name:	Wash F Adams[]
Age:	22
Birth Year:	abt 1838
Gender:	Male
Birth Place:	Georgia
Home in 1860:	San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas
Post Office:	San Augustine
Dwelling Number:	115
Family Number:	115
Occupation:	Farmer

Name:

W F Adams

Age in 1870:

Birth Date:

abt 1835

Birthplace:

Mississippi

Dwelling Number:

216

Home in 1870:

San Augustine, Texas

Race:

White

Gender:

Male

Post Office:

San Augustine

Occupation:

Farmer

Cannot Read:

Yes

Cannot Write:

Yes

Male Citizen Over 21:

Yes

Personal Estate Value:

700

Inferred Spouse:

Sarah Adams

Inferred Children:

Zida ann Adams Misorne B Adams Geo Ann Adams

Household Members	Age
W F Adams	35
Sarah Adams	32
Zida ann Adams	8
Misorne B Adams	5
Geo Ann Adams	2

Name:

[]

Age:

Birth Date:

Abt 1834

Birthplace:

Georgia

Home in 1880:

San Augustine, Texas, USA

Dwelling Number:

Race:

White

Gender:

Male

Relation to Head of House:

Self (Head)

Marital Status:

Married

Spouse's Name:

S. J. Adams

Father's Birthplace:

South Carolina

Mother's Birthplace:

South Carolina

Occupation:

Farmer

Neighbors:

Household Members	Age	Relationship
W. T. Adams	46	Self (Head)
S. J. Adams	42	Wife
Z. A. Adams	18	Daughter
N. B. Adams	15	Daughter
M. A. Adams	7	Daughter
B. F. Adams	5	Son
E. V. Adams	2	Daughter

Name:

Washington Adam

Age:

Birth Date:

Oct 1836

Birthplace:

Georgia, USA

Home in 1900:

Justice Precinct 6, San Augustine, Texas

House Number:

8th

Sheet Number:

Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:

103

Family Number:

103

Race:

White

Gender:

Male

Relation to Head of House:

Head

Marital Status:

Married

Spouse's Name:

Sarah Adam

Marriage Year:

1860

Years Married:

Father's Birthplace:

South Carolina, USA

Mother's Birthplace:

South Carolina, USA

Occupation:

Farmer

Can Read:

Yes

Can Write:

Yes

Can Speak English:

Yes

House Owned or Rented:

Own

Home Free or Mortgaged:

Farm or House:

Neighbors:

Household Members	Age	Relationship
Washington Adam	62	Head
Sarah Adam	61	Wife
Alice Adam	26	Daughter
Benjamin Adam	24	Son
John Adam	19	Son

Name:

Washington F Adams

Age in 1910:

Birth Date:

1837[1837]

Birthplace:

Georgia

Home in 1910:

Justice Precinct 3, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA

Race:

White

Gender:

Male

Relation to Head of House:

Head

Marital Status:

Married

Spouse's Name:

Sarah Adams

Father's Birthplace:

Georgia

Mother's Birthplace:

Georgia

Native Tongue:

English

Occupation:

Farmer

Industry:

Gen Farm

Employer, Employee or Other:

Employer

Home Owned or Rented:

Own

Home Free or Mortgaged:

Free

Farm or House:

Farm

Able to read:

Yes

Able to Write:

Yes

Years Married:

Survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy:

Neighbors:

Household Members	Age	Relationship
Washington F Adams	73	Head
Sarah Adams	71	Wife
Mary A Adams	35	Daughter
John E Adams	27	Son

Name:	Franklin M. Adams
Side:	Confederate
Regiment State/Origin:	Mississippi
Regiment:	11th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Company:	F
Rank In:	Private
Rank Out:	Private
Alternate Name:	Frank M./Adams
Film Number:	M232 roll 1

Fought on 21 Jul 1861 at Manassas, VA. (Injured during this campaign and discharged.)

The First Battle of Bull Run (the name used by Union forces), also known as the Battle of First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 30 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. The Union's forces were slow in positioning themselves, allowing Confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail. Each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops in their first battle. It was a Confederate victory, followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces.

Just months after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, the Northern public clamored for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which was expected to bring an early end to the Confederacy. Yielding to political pressure, Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell led his unseasoned Union Army across Bull Run against the equally inexperienced Confederate Army of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard camped near Manassas Junction. McDowell's ambitious plan for a surprise flank attack on the Confederate left was poorly executed; nevertheless, the Confederates, who had been planning to attack the Union left flank, found themselves at an initial disadvantage.

Confederate reinforcements under Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston arrived from the Shenandoah Valley by railroad, and the course of the battle quickly changed. A brigade of Virginians under the relatively unknown brigadier general from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas J. Jackson, stood its ground, which resulted in Jackson receiving his famous nickname, "Stonewall". The Confederates launched a strong counterattack, and as the Union troops began withdrawing under fire, many panicked and the retreat turned into a rout. McDowell's men frantically ran without order in the direction of Washington, D.C.

Both armies were sobered by the fierce fighting and the many casualties and realized that the war was going to be much longer and bloodier than either had anticipated. The First Battle of Bull Run highlighted many of the problems and deficiencies that were typical of the first year of the war. Units were committed piecemeal, attacks were frontal, infantry failed to protect exposed artillery, tactical intelligence was minimal, and neither commander was able to employ his whole force effectively. McDowell, with 35,000 men, could commit only about 18,000, and the combined Confederate forces, with about 32,000 men, also committed 18,000.

Name:	Frank M Adams
Enlistment Rank:	Private
Muster Place:	Mississippi
Muster Company:	F
Muster Regiment:	11th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type:	Infantry
Muster Information:	Enlisted
Side of War:	Confederacy
Title:	Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records

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The Flag of the Kingdom of Spain 1519 to 1821

The Spanish Flag of Castile and Leon flew over Texas for three hundred years. Spanish involvement in Texas began with Alonzo Alverez de Pineda's mapping of the Texas coast in 1519. Then, in 1542 Luis de Moscoso came to Nacogdoches and East Texas with the remnants of the Hernando de Soto expedition that had begun four years earlier in Florida. Spain's claim to Texas went back to the DeSoto-Moscoso Expedition, which claimed all of southeastern United States as Spanish Florida. Spain's occupation of Texas began in 1690 with the founding of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas on the Neches River. It continued in 1716 with the founding of six missions from the Neches River to Los Adaes in Western Louisiana, and 1721 with the founding of Presidio Nuestra Señora de Pilar de los Adaes----near present day Robeline, Louisiana. Los Adaes was the first capital of the Province of Texas. Texas was under the Spanish flag until Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821. Interestingly, the first flag used by the Spanish to claim Texas was not the familiar flag of Castile and Leon; it was a banner that had the Virgin of Guadalupe on one side and the crucified Christ on the other.

The Flag of the Kingdom of France 1685 to 1689

France's claim to a part of Texas went back to 1682, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explored the Mississippi and claimed all the land in its drainage for France. For some mapmakers and politicians, this included Texas. He named this land Louisiana. La Salle came to Texas in 1685, after he accidentally sailed past his destination at the mouth of the Mississippi. He established Fort St. Louis and a French settlement on Garcitas Creek off Matagorda Bay. The settlement was ill fated from its beginning. LaSalle was murdered by his own men near Navasota in 1687, and the settlers and soldiers who remained at Fort St. Louis were killed or captured by the Indians in 1689. The Spanish found Fort St. Louis and burned it to the ground in 1690. This French intrusion into Spanish territory caused the Spanish to begin the occupation and settlement of East Texas to prevent further French invasions.

The Flag of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 1812 to 1813

Bernardo Gutiérrez and Lieutenant Augustus Magee flew their green flag of the new Republic of Texas over the Stone Fort in Nacogdoches in August of 1812. The Republican Army of the North, as these filibusters called themselves, had come from Natchitoches to Nacogdoches to recruit and train troops with the help of Samuel Davenport. They stayed for two months, drilled an army of over five hundred men, and then marched on to capture Goliad and San Antonio. Magee died at Goliad, and his place was taken by Samuel Kemper. Kemper and Gutiérrez captured San Antonio and issued a Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas on April 6, 1813. This brief time of Texas Independence was over when the Spanish general Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the remains of the Republican army at the Battle of Medina on August 18, 1813. Augustus Magee and Samuel Davenport, who were in charge of the militia in Nacogdoches, were both Irishmen. That might have governed their choice of the Emerald Green flag as the Republican army's standard.

The Flag of the Dr. James Long Expedition 1819 and 1821

Some Americans believed that Texas was part of Louisiana as claimed by LaSalle in 1682 and should have been included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. One of those was Dr. James Long of Natchez, Mississippi, who came to Nacogdoches in June of 1819. Dr. Long proclaimed himself the president of his newly declared Republic of Texas. Dr. Long's red-striped Lone Star flag flew but briefly over the Stone Fort and his Republic of Texas. The Spanish caught Long when he went to Galveston, where he was seeking the assistance of pirate Jean Lafitte. There they defeated him and his meager army and chased him back to Louisiana. Dr. Long returned to Texas with a small army in 1821 and quickly captured the poorly manned garrison at Goliad. However, he was soon under siege by Spanish troops from San Antonio, who recaptured Goliad and took him captive. Dr. James Long was taken to Mexico City, jailed, then freed, and then murdered under mysterious circumstances by a Mexican soldier.

The Flag of the Mexican Federal Republic 1821 to 1836

Spanish Nacogdoches came under the Mexican flag in 1821, when Mexico finally won its independence from Spain. Mexico, in order to prove its ownership of Texas, began settling its eastern parts with the Anglos as early as December 1821. In that year Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring the first of his Old Three Hundred Settlers into his grant on the Brazos. Thereafter, Americans poured through Nacogdoches, the Gateway to Texas, in search of cheap land. By the time of the Texas revolution in 1836, Anglos greatly outnumbered the Spanish-Mexican population. The Mexican flag that flew over Nacogdoches and still flies over Mexico was adopted in 1825. It has three vertical green, white, and red fields of equal width. In the center of the white field is the Mexican eagle sitting on a nopal cactus holding a snake in its beak. In Mexican legend, this was a sign to the Aztecs that they had reached the land that was to be their home.

The Flag of the Fredonia Rebellion 1826 to 1827

For a brief while, the flag that flew over Nacogdoches was the red-and-white banner of Haden Edward's thirty-seven-day Fredonia Rebellion. Edwards had obtained a grant from Mexico to settle eight hundred families in East Texas in the Nacogdoches area. Unfortunately for him, most of the land had already been settled---legally and illegally---by the early Spanish, by Indians, and by Anglo squatters. His intrusion caused such a disturbance that the Mexican government revoked his grant. Disappointed over the loss of his grant, on December 16, 1826, Haden and his brother Benjamin rode into Nacogdoches, planted their flag in front of the Stone Fort, and proclaimed the Republic of Fredonia. They had formed an uncertain alliance with the Cherokees, thus the reason for the red and white colors of the flag. The flag carried the words "Independence Freedom and Justice" and the Signatures of sixteen of the original Fredonians. The Fredonian army consisted of no more than thirty men, the Cherokees never joined them, and Stephen F. Austin raised a militia to put down the East Texas rebellion. The Fredonians gave up their cause on January 22, 1827, and retreated eastward across the Sabine.

The Flag of the Republic of Texas 1836 to 1846

Mexican Texas became the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna on the plains of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The first official flag was a white upside-down star on a blue background with T-E-X-A-S written between the points of the star. This flag never flew. The second flag of the Republic was adopted by the first Texas congress in December 1836. It bore a single, large gold star on a blue field. This flag was the same design as the "Bonnie blue flag that bears a single star" that was so popular among the Southern troops during the Civil War. The Lone Star flag that we now use was designed by Texas Senator William H. Wharton and was officially adopted by the Senate under President Mirabeau B. Lamar in 1839. The new flag kept the white star on the blue field, but now the blue field was a vertical stripe which occupied one-third of the flag, and it was balanced by horizontal white and red stripes, on the other two-thirds. This Texas flag has been prominently displayed for over 150 years.

The Flag of the Confederate States of America 1861 to 1865

For four years, the Stars and Bars flew over Nacogdoches and Texas. After years of conflicts of interest between the North and the South over states rights, slavery, and the right of secession, the Civil War began in March of 1861. Texas seceded and joined the Confederate States of America. It sent its Texas brigades into battle, and suffered for four years with the rest of the Confederacy before General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The most enduring of the Confederate flags during the War was the Stars and Bars with the square of blue holding a circle of the seven original seceding states. Texas was the seventh star. Because the Confederate Stars and Bars and the Union Stars and Stripes were easily confused in the heat of battle, General P. G. T. Beauregard introduced a Confederate battle flag. This was a square red flag with a white-bordered blue cross running diagonally from corners to corners. The cross contained thirteen stars representing the eleven Confederate states plus Kentucky and Missouri. This battle flag became the flag most closely identified with the Southern cause. The Confederate Stars and Bars came down in Texas after April 1863 and Appomattox, and the United States Stars and Stripes have been flying over this State ever since.

The Flag of the United States of America since 1846

On February 19, 1846, the Lone Star flag was lowered over the Texas state capitol in Austin, and the Stars and Stripes was raised. The Republic of Texas had become the State of Texas. From the beginning of the Republic in 1836, the majority of the Texians, most of whom had come directly from the States, had wanted Texas to join the Union. But many in the Union did not want Texas in the United States. Some did not want one more Southern slave-holding state, and some were afraid of causing a war with Mexico. Nevertheless, on July 4, 1845, the Texas congress voted to accept the articles of annexation offered by United States President James K. Polk, and on December 29, 1845, the congressional resolution proclaiming Texas as a state in the Union was signed by President Polk. The Old Glory that was raised above the Texas state capitol on the following February 19, 1846, had twenty-eight stars in four rows of seven stars each. Except for the four years of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, these Stars and Stripes have since 1846 flown over the State of Texas.

Nacogdoches Texas USA

Nacogoches

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Washington Franklin Adams

Washington Franklin Adams

W F Adams

in the Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958

Washington F. Adams

in the Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2017

Name: Washington F. Adams
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 19 Feb 1860
Marriage Place: San Augustine, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sarah Taylor

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Nacogoches

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Washington Franklin Adams

Washington Franklin Adams

W F Adams

in the Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958

Washington F. Adams

in the Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2017

Name:Washington F. AdamsGender:MaleMarriage Date:19 Feb 1860Marriage Place:San Augustine, Texas, USASpouse:Sarah Taylor

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Name: Washington F. Adams
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 19 Feb 1860
Marriage Place: San Augustine, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sarah Taylor