Charles Powell Adams (March 3, 1831 – November 2, 1893) was a Colonel in the Union Army, physician and politician.

[2] In 1859, Adams bought a grocery store which he ran for a number of years and about the same time he began the publication of a newspaper, the Hastings Democrat.

[1] During the Battle of Gettysburg he participated in the attacks of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment and was wounded next to Colonel William J.

[4] After he was mustered out at the end of the Civil War, Adams was a commander of a cavalry and artillery, that led a successful campaign against the Sioux in 1866.

[3] A newspaper article from 1884 reported: "In a modest home in Hastings, writhing on a bed of anguish, a hero lies dying".

They reported his condition as "hopeless from thirteen wounds received in the war of the rebellion and the blood poison which supervened after surgical operations performed on him.

[6] Quotes about Adams: I desire to call attention of the provost marshal general to the fact that this is a distinguished officer.

Col. Charles P. Adams, whose gallantry on every battlefield, attested by his many wounds, won for him the brevet rank of brigadier general.

— United States district judge William Lochren[1]Adams was married three times, with his first marriage in February 1852, to Mary Florence Buxton, who died in October 1858.