The Gauley Artillery, also known as Adams`s Battery, was a unit of the Confederate States Army that operated in western Virginia and Tennessee during the early years of the American Civil War.

Stephen Adams, who was the commonwealth attorney for the counties of Raleigh and Fayette.

They were supplied with 4 artillery pieces, three 6-pounder smooth bore and one 10-pounder, which had been locally made.

In January 1862 they were assigned to the command of Col. John McCausland and transferred west to Fort Donelson in Tennessee.

At the surrender of the fort to Union forces on Feb. 16, 1862, the battery was imprisoned at Camp Douglas, and later exchanged.