Fort Adams - Notable Persons Associated With Fort Adams

Notable Persons Associated With Fort Adams

  • Joseph G. Totten - oversaw construction of Fort Adams and Chief Engineer of the United States Army
  • Simon Bernard - General under Napoleon and designer of Fort Adams
  • Louis de Tousard - Revolutionary War hero and designer of the first Fort Adams
  • John Henry - First commander of Fort Adams and adventurer.
  • John G. Barnard - Army engineer, Civil War general and Superintendent of West Point
  • Alexander Dallas Bache - Army engineer and Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
  • George W. Cullum - Civil War general and Superintendent of West Point
  • William S. Rosecrans - Civil War general
  • Isaac Ingalls Stevens - Civil War general
  • John B. Magruder - Confederate Civil War general
  • Pierre G. T. Beauregard - Confederate Civil War general
  • William Gates - long serving Army officer
  • Robley D. Evans - Navy rear admiral and commander of the Great White Fleet
  • Robert Anderson - Commander of Fort Sumter and Civil War general
  • Ambrose Burnside - Civil War general
  • John G. Foster - Civil War general
  • Thomas W. Sherman - Civil War general
  • Henry A. du Pont - Medal of Honor recipient, president of the Wilmington & Northern Railroad Company and United States Senator
  • Henry Jackson Hunt - Civil War general
  • William Griffith Wilson - Best known as "Bill W". Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Stationed at Fort Adams during the First World War.
  • Lyman Lemnitzer - Army general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Thornton Wilder - Author
  • William P. Ennis - Army lieutenant general born at Fort Adams

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