GLADDEN, Adley Hogan

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Affiliation:  Union

Born: October 28 1810, Fairfield Dist. SC

Died: April 12 1862, Corinth MS

Pre-War Profession: Cotton broker, postmaster, Seminole war, Mexican War

War Service: 1861 Lt. Col. of 1st South Carolina, Col. of 1st Louisiana, Pensacola, September 1861 Brig. Gen., Corinth, commanded 1st Bde/Withers' Divn at Shiloh

Post War: On the first day of the Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, Gladden was mortally wounded by a shell fragment, which required amputation of an arm on the field, died six days later.