Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895

Badeau was a Union army general, an aide to General William T. Sherman, and a historian.

American author and historian.

General, United States Army; biographer of Ulysses S. Grant.

American military officer and author.

American author, soldier and diplomat; military secretary to U.S. Grant, 1864-66; Aide de Camp to Grant 1866-69; Secretary of U.S. Legation at London, 1870-1881, Charge d'Affairs at Copenhagen, 1881; Consul General at Havana, 1882-84.

Army officer, author, and diplomat.

A volunteer in the U.S. military service at the outset of the Civil War, Adam Badeau worked as an aide on the staff of General Thomas W. Sherman until he was wounded in May 1863. He spent some months recovering in Jamaica, New York and at Fillmore House in Newport. In March 1864, Badeau was appointed military secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant, with the rank, first of lieutenant-colonel and afterward of colonel. On this duty, he accompanied the general in the Wilderness and Appomattox campaigns, and remained on his staff until March 1869, when he was retired from the army with the full rank of captain. In later years, Badeau held various diplomatic service posts.

Adam Badeau was an American author, military general during the American Civil War, and diplomat.

Adam Badeau was an American author, military General during the American Civil War, and diplomat.

American diplomat and author; military secretary and aide to Ulysses S. Grant, 1864-1865, and Grant's lifelong friend and biographer.

U.S. Army brigadier-general; diplomat; military secretary (1864-1865), biographer, and friend of Ulysses S. Grant.

Adam Badeau was a soldier, diplomat, and military secretary to Ulysses S. Grant. Born in New York City on December 29, 1831, he joined the military in 1862 and served as aide to General Thomas W. Sherman until he was wounded in 1863. In March of 1864 he was appointed military secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant and eventually promoted to colonel. He was with Grant until March 1869 and was present at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox; he retired from the army with the full rank of captain and the brevet rank of Brigadier-General. From 1869 to 1881 he was in London, first as secretary of legation and then as consul-general, with a leave of absence granted by the state department from 1877-1878 to accompany General Grant on his tour round the world. He later served as consul-general at Havana, from 1882 to 1884. He died in 1895.

Badeau assisted Grant in the preparation of Grant's Memoirs and authored a number of books and articles on military subjects. His published works include The Vagabond, a collection of essays (New York, 1859); a three-volume Military History of Ulysses S. Grant (1867-1881); Conspiracy: a Cuban Romance (1885) ; Aristocracy in England (1886); and Grant in Peace, a biographical profile of the General (1886).