After Gettysburg he was promoted captain, and during the Wilderness campaign of 1864 he served with distinguished bravery. His convalescence was relatively brief and he was able to return and fight at Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the Battle of Cold Harbor. He and the entire regiment were captured near Cold Harbor on June 22, 1864 and Adams was held at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. He was also imprisoned at Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, where he and other officers were placed on Morris Island in an attempt to stop naval bombardment by the Union. Moved to Columbia, he and a comrade attempted to escape but were eventually captured. He was held for a total of nine months. Postwar life After the war, Adams was a foreman for ten years at the B. F. Doak & Company shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. He left that post to become an inspector in the Boston Custom House and later served as the Postmaster of Lynn and Deputy Warden of the State Reformatory at Concord. He served as an elector for the state in the 1868 presidential election. In 1885 he was elected Sergeant at Arms for the Massachusetts legislature, overseeing a staff of approximately forty and earning a salary of $3,000. Adams was a Freemason as a member of Columbian Lodge A.F.&A.M. in Boston, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He joined the G.A.R. as the first member of General Frederick W. Lander Post No. 5 in Lynn, his local post. He served as a delegate to the national G.A.R. convention twelve times and served a year as Department Commander before being elected as Commander-in-Chief in 1893. At the time, he was elected he had been President of the Association of the Survivors of Rebel Prisons for seven years. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 1899, he published a memoir of his war service, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment. He died October 19, 1900 and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, Massachusetts. Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, Company I, 19th Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date: At Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. Birth: Groveland, Mass. Date of issue: December 16, 1896. Citation: Seized the 2 colors from the hands