23 Facts About Adam Badeau

Adam Badeau was an American author, Union Army officer, and diplomat.

Adam Badeau is most famous for his service on the staff of Ulysses S Grant during the American Civil War and his subsequent three-volume biography of Grant.

Adam Badeau took part in several campaigns, and rose from captain to brevet brigadier general.

Adam Badeau continued to work as a writer, and was a prolific contributor of essays and articles to newspapers and magazines, in addition to being the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Adam Badeau died in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and was buried in the churchyard of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.

Adam Badeau was born in New York City on December 29,1831.

Adam Badeau was first educated by private tutors before he moved to Tarrytown, where he attended boarding schools.

Adam Badeau studied law, and attained admission to the bar in 1855.

Adam Badeau was married on April 29,1875, to Marie Ely Niles.

Adam Badeau's father, Nathaniel Niles was a prominent physician who served as secretary of the US legation and acting charge d'affaires in Paris, special diplomatic agent to the Austrian Empire, and charge d'affaires in Sardinia.

Adam Badeau's grandfather, Nathaniel Niles was a member of Congress from Vermont.

Adam Badeau's cousin, named Nathaniel Niles, served as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1872.

In 1862, Adam Badeau joined the Union Army during the American Civil War and was commissioned as a captain.

Adam Badeau took part in the Wilderness and Appomattox campaigns, and received promotion to brevet colonel.

Adam Badeau remained on Grant's staff until 1869, and left the Army for disability caused by his Port Hudson wound; he held the permanent rank of captain and the brevet rank of brigadier general.

In 1875 Adam Badeau was nominated as Minister to Belgium, and in 1881 he received appointment as Minister to Denmark, but he declined both.

Adam Badeau resigned this appointment after alleging that officials in the State Department were corrupt in their dealings with Cuba and Spain, and stating that the department took no action after he made his charges.

Adam Badeau then aided Grant in the preparation of Grant's memoirs, but Grant dismissed him before the book was finished after they argued over the details of the legal agreement specifying how much Adam Badeau would be paid and how he would be credited for his editing, research and fact checking.

Grant was surprised when Adam Badeau expressed his complaints and made demands of Grant.

The first, having committed much of his time and effort in assisting Grant, Adam Badeau maintained that he had been detained from many of his other involvements for several months.

Grant thought the offer too advantageous to Adam Badeau and was additionally annoyed by press leaks that painted Adam Badeau as the true author of the forthcoming work.

Adam Badeau wrote for the New York Sunday Times under the nom de plume "The Vagabond".

Adam Badeau finally succumbed to apoplexy, and died suddenly on March 19,1895, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, at the age of 63 and was buried at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, Section D, Lot 65.