Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Adams Jr. (born October 25, 1829 – May 1, 1902) was a Civil War surgeon and 1853 graduate of Harvard Medical School.

[1] Wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, and captured by Confederate forces, he was eventually paroled and sent to the Union Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland.

[4] He died after falling over the Metropolitan Water Works dam in Southborough in 1902 and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[5] There is a memorial plaque to Adams mounted on a boulder on the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

[1] The text reads: Behind this group of rocks on the afternoon of July 2, 1863 Surgeon Z. Boylston Adams placed the field hospital of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Second Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps Established so near the line of battle many of our wounded escaped capture or death by its timely aid.

Placed by the Veterans Association of the Regiment 32nd Mass Hospital Finding Aid for the Zabdiel Boylston Adams papers, H MS c566.