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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up a bit of grammar here and there, capitalizations and use of apostrophes. I'm not sure why the text doesn't wrap to the left of the info box, though, and the paragraphs are still a bit awkward. LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 18:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ranks

According to this article, the fort's first commander was a captain (John Henry). But by the mid-19th century, the man in charge was a brigadier-general (Franklin Pierce). That seems to be quite a jump in ranks. Is it correct ? RASAM (talk) 15:40, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The first Fort Adams (1799) was a small fort and garrisoned by only one company. The present fort is much larger and was a major mobilization point. During the Civil War, for example, Fort Adams was the headquarters of the 15th US Infantry regiment. The commander in the Mexican-American War was Benjamin Kendrick Pierce, brother of Franklin. From his bio he appears to have been a colonel during the war. RobDuch (talk) 06:15, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]