20th Maine Volunteer Infantry 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XI Corps 2nd Division, X Corps 2nd Division, XXIV Corps Fourth Military District 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Fifth Army Corps 1st Division, Fifth Army Corps
Battles/wars
American Civil War Spanish–American War
Awards
Medal of Honor
Adelbert Ames (October 31, 1835 – April 13, 1933) was an American sailor, soldier, businessman 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.
A staunch supporter of political equality for African Americans, Ames' tenure as governor of Mississippi was a longstanding point of controversy in the historiography around Reconstruction, with Dunning School and other "Lost Cause" historians casting him as a villain in American history. Conversely, his cause was championed by Black historians and, from the 1950s onward, other neo-abolitionist writers.
Ames was the penultimate surviving general officer of the Civil War, dying at the age of 97 in 1933.[1] He was outlived 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.
^Warner, p. 6, "This last survivor of the full-rank general officers on either side of the conflict ..."; Eicher, p. 103, "... the last surviving substantive Civil War general officer."
AdelbertAmes (October 31, 1835 – April 13, 1933) was an American sailor, soldier, businessman and politician who served with distinction as a Union Army...
it was invented by American scientist AdelbertAmes Jr. in 1946, and constructed in the following year. An Ames room is viewed with one eye through a...
is misperceived to be oscillating. This phenomenon was discovered by AdelbertAmes, Jr. in 1947. During the 1960s, the concept of "transactional ambiguity"...
suffrage and birth control. Born Blanche Ames in Lowell, Massachusetts, Ames was the daughter of AdelbertAmes, a West Point graduate who became a Civil...
Blanche Butler Ames (March 2, 1847 – December 26, 1939) was the wife of AdelbertAmes, a decorated general of the American Civil War and Senator and Governor...
The name Adelbert may refer to: Adelbert Althouse (1869–1954), American politician AdelbertAmes (1835–1933), American politician AdelbertAmes Jr. (1880–1955)...
Battle of Chancellorsville elevated the original commander, Colonel AdelbertAmes, to brigade command. During the second day's fighting at Gettysburg...
the 1998 American swashbuckler film The Mask of Zorro and as Colonel AdelbertAmes in the 2003 American film Gods and Generals. He co-starred in the 2016...
Maine and mustered into federal service on August 29, 1862, with Col. AdelbertAmes as its commander. It was assigned to the Army of the Potomac in the...
appear as the so-called impossible objects. The Ames room was invented by American scientist AdelbertAmes Jr. in 1946. When viewed through a peephole, the...
assume the office the following January 1, 1874. Mississippi Governor AdelbertAmes assumed his office only a few days after Crosby, on January 4, 1874...
March 4, 1857 – January 21, 1861 Preceded by Stephen Adams Succeeded by AdelbertAmes (1870) In office August 10, 1847 – September 23, 1851 Preceded by Jesse...
Butler Ames (August 22, 1871 – November 6, 1954) was an American politician, engineer, soldier and businessman. He was the son of AdelbertAmes and grandson...
grandparents were born with the surname Ames; his mother was the granddaughter of Medal of Honor recipient AdelbertAmes (1835–1933), an American sailor, soldier...
20, 1865. p. 2. Retrieved March 20, 2023. Sobel 1978, pp. 816–817. "AdelbertAmes". National Governors Association. Retrieved March 15, 2023. "Removal...
Republican politician AdelbertAmes, the governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction, and Union general Benjamin Butler, Ames's father-in-law and the...
justifications were articulated on a basis of discontent with governor AdelbertAmes' Republican administration, including spurious charges of corruption...
term. Stone had become governor a year prior, after the resignation of AdelbertAmes. In the general election, Stone ran unopposed. "MS Governor 1877". Our...
district was commanded by generals Edward Ord, Alvan Cullem Gillem, and AdelbertAmes. Following the completion of the Civil War, the Federal government under...
James Lusk Alcorn was decisively defeated by the Radical faction led by AdelbertAmes. The party lost support steadily as many supporters of Reconstruction...
the mileage; 47% of the directors were from the North. Union General AdelbertAmes, a native of Maine, was appointed military governor and later was elected...
Global Information
Brigadier general
Brevet major general