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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“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”
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