Adley Hogan Gladden (September 28, 1810 – April 12, 1862) was lieutenant colonel and second commander of the

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of South Carolina volunteers during the

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and a

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in the

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during the

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. He impressed General

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after defending Pensacola from

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bombardment and after a brief assignment at

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, he was brought to

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, to command a brigade in the

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. He was mortally wounded at the

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.''Much of the information on Gladden's military career was taken from a public domain book (published before 1923) Dimitry, John Bull Smith''
''Confederate Military History: Louisiana, Arkansas''
Volume 10. Evans, Clement Anselm, ed. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. . Retrieved July 20, 2011. pp. 301–302. The article has been edited since its original entry on this page and additional facts and sources have been added, but it still contains essential facts from that account.

Early life

Adley Hogan Gladden was born on October 28, 1810, in the Fairfield District of South Carolina. Warner, Ezra J. ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . p. 107.Eicher, John H., and

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, ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 256. In 1830, he became a cotton broker in

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. He served in the Florida War or

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. He was appointed postmaster of Columbia, South Carolina, by

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Mexican–American War

In the Mexican–American War, Gladden was a major and then, as lieutenant colonel, commander of the

of South Carolina volunteers. After the death of its colonel and lieutenant-colonel while storming the Mexican works at the

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, Gladden became lieutenant colonel and commander of the regiment. He led the Palmetto Regiment in the assault upon the Belen Gate at the

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, where he also was severely wounded. Gladden moved to

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, Louisiana, after the war.

American Civil War

On January 25, 1861, Gladden accepted appointment as lieutenant colonel of the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment, but soon resigned to become a member of the Louisiana secession convention. After the convention ended, he became colonel of the 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Regulars) and took the regiment to

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. On September 30, 1861, he was commissioned

and assigned to command of a brigade, including the 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment, of which future brigadier general

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then became colonel. He was in command of his brigade during the bombardment of the Confederate forts at Pensacola harbor, and

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expressed thanks for the able support Gladden provided. From December 22, 1861, to January 27, 1862, he was commander of the

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. Subsequently, General Bragg, expressing a desire to form a brigade of regiments which should set an example of discipline and official excellence, said, "I should desire General Gladden to command them." On January 27, 1862, Gladden was transferred to Mobile, Alabama, until March 9, 1862, and then to Corinth, Mississippi, where he was placed in command of a brigade composed of four Alabama regiments, the 1st Louisiana and Robertson's battery in the

.Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. . p. 251. On the first day of the

, April 6, 1862, Gladden was mortally wounded by a shell fragment, which required amputation of an arm on the field. General P. G. T. Beauregard, commander of the Army of Mississippi after the death of General

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at Shiloh on April 6, 1862, described Gladden's death as follows: "In the same quarter of the field all of Withers' division, including Gladden's brigade, reinforced by

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's whole reserve, soon became engaged, and Benjamin Prentiss' entire line, though fighting stoutly, was pressed back in confusion. We early lost the services of the gallant Gladden, a man of soldierly aptitudes and experience, who, after a marked influence upon the issue in his quarter of the field, fell mortally wounded." Adley Hogan Gladden died on April 12, 1862.Warner, 1959, p. 108. He is buried in

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Notes

References

* Dimitry, John Bull Smith.'
''Confederate Military History: Louisiana, Arkansas''
''Volume 10. Evans, Clement Anselm, ed. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. . Retrieved July 20, 2011. * Eicher, John H., and

, ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . * Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War''. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . * Warner, Ezra J. ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Gladden, Adley H. 1810 births 1862 deaths Confederate States Army brigadier generals People of South Carolina in the American Civil War Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War American military personnel of the Mexican–American War United States politicians killed during the Civil War

Early life

Mexican–American War

American Civil War

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