Postbellum Career
After the war ended, Adams resumed the practice of law in New Orleans until his death in 1872. He is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi next to his brother W.W.Adams. D.W. Adams gravesite is unmarked but ironically there is a cenotaph tombstone for him in Greenwood's Confederate Section.
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