John G. B. Adams

John Gregory Bishop Adams (October 6, 1841 – October 19, 1900) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War.

Adams was born October 6, 1841, in Groveland, Massachusetts, to Isaac and Margaret Adams. He married Mary E. on April 5, 1866, in Boston. They had two children, but they both died in infancy.

When Adams returned home after the war, he worked a series of jobs including working for a shoe company, as a customs inspector, postmaster, and deputy warden. He served as a Massachusetts elector in the 1868 presidential election. In 1899 Adams published a war service memoir, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment.