I hope this information concerning Adam's Battery will be useful. The record of this battery is very sketchy and incomplete. The artillery unit was raised as the Gauley Artillery of Virginia, commanded by Captain Stephen Adams on June 22, 1861. By September, 1861, it was serving in the Army of the Kanawha with only two guns. This was Floyd's forces in the Kanawha valley of western Virginia. It earlier in September, had been at White Sulpher Springs. In December, it was stationed in the vicinity of Bowling Green Ky in Floyd's command. It is not mentioned in the books by Gott and Cooling concerning Fort Donelson but my index card file lists it as captured at Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862. The battery was exchanged and reorganized as Company A, 30th Virginia Sharpshooter Battalion on August 24, 1862. The battery does not appear to have been a success as a artillery unit.

The source for the citation of the battery being at Fort Donelson is the book "Compendium of the Confederate Armies" by Stewart Sifakis, on page 13. The source for the other information is the the other information is from the "Official Records".

Ron