Adelbert Ames
Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
Died when: 97 years 163 days (1169 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Adelbert Ames (October 31, 1835 – April 13, 1933) was an American sailor, soldier, and politician who served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War.
A Radical Republican, he was military governor, U.S. Senator, and civilian governor in Reconstruction-era Mississippi. In 1898, he served as a United States Army general during the Spanish–American War.
He was the last Republican to serve as the state governor of Mississippi until the election of Kirk Fordice, who took office in January 1992, 116 years after Ames vacated the office.
Ames was the penultimate general officer of the Civil War to die. He succumbed at the age of 97 in 1933. He was outlived in this respect only by Aaron Daggett, who died in 1938 at the age of 100.
However, because Daggett was a brevet rank brigadier general of volunteers, Ames was the last surviving Civil War general who had held his rank in the regular U.S. or Confederate States army, and was also the last surviving general of the conflict who had begun his career in the regular U.
S. Army.
Related People
Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
Union Army General and Medal of Honor recipient
Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient