Civil War Veterans (1861-1865)
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"In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, the other 25 states supported the federal government." "After four years of warfare, mostly fought in the southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation."
“The anti-slavery movement had many supporters in Andover long before the war began. William Jenkins, and ardent abolitionist and friend of William Lloyd Garrison, and several others provided stops on the Underground Railway for runaway slaves. When the Confederate Army shelled Fort Sumter in 1861, a company of 79 volunteers was formed. By the time the war ended in 1865, 600 Andover residents had served in the Union Army, 53 lost their lives.” (5)
Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927) "Officer and military engineer in the United States Army." "He attended West Point and graduated second in his class (which included Jeb Stuart and G.W. Custis Lee)." "In 1855, Abbot was assigned to work with Lt. Robert Williamson's Pacific Railroad Survey in California and Oregon. To honor his work on this survey, the California Geological Survey named Mount Abbot in the Sierra Nevada after him in 1873." "At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lt. Abbot was assigned to Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's forces and was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run." "He was brevetted major for his service at the siege of Yorktown," Pennsylvania." "In December 1864 he was placed in command of all siege artillery in the Army of the Potomac and James." "General in Chief" of this force was "Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant." "On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted to Brigadier General, US Regular Army and Major General, US Volunteers for gallant and distinguished services during the war." "Immediately after the war, Abbot became the first Commander of the newly established Engineer School of Application...at West Point." He retired as a Colonel in 1895. "After his retirement he continued to work as a civil engineer and was employed as a consultant for the locks on the Panama Canal." "Abbot was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1863."(12)
Edward Stanley Abbot (1841-1863) "An aspiring writer, he attended some of the finer schools, including Harvard and Norwich. However, he had a strong sense of duty, feeling compelled to offer his life to fight for justice on earth. On July 1, 1862, he enlisted at Fort Preble, Portland," Maine. "Second Lieutenant 17th United States Infantry, November 10, 1862; First Lieutenant, April 27, 1863.". "On the evening of July 2, Lieutenant Abbott and fellow soldiers of the 17th descended the heights of Little Round Top, through the Valley of Death. Within 15 minutes, Abbott and another 150 soldiers of the 260-man unit were killed. Abbott was struck by a minie ball, which cut through his lung and remained lodged near his spine. He was taken to a nearby field hospital in a farm where he eventually died from the wound on July 8, 1863." "He lived long enough to understand that he died in victory, and that his blood was not lost." (Brother of Henry Larcom Abbot) He is buried in the Central Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.
"His mother was the grand-niece of the Honorable Nathan Dane (1752-1835), L.L.D., member of the Continental Congress in 1785-88, framer of the famous Ordinance of 1787, founder of the Dane Professorship of Law in Harvard University." (12)
Henry Livermore Abbott (1842-1864) "Was a Major in the Union Army. Abbott was posthumously awarded the rank of Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, on February 20, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services at the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was killed in action. He was engaged at the center of several key Civil War battles and was widely known and admired for his leadership, courage, and composure under fire." "He was the third of eleven children born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Gardner Abbott [descendant of George and Hannah and their son Timothy], a successful lawyer and judge. In 1876, he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Henry's mother, Caroline, was the daughter of US Congressman Edward St. Loe Livermore. Both of Henry's parents were descended from officers who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War." "Henry was a prodigy and in 1856 he enrolled in Harvard University at age 14 with his older brother Edward Gardner Abbott ("Ned" 1840-1862). He graduated in the class of 1860. Henry's father obtained an appointment for Henry as a Captain in the 2d Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment after the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter. Henry declined this appointment and in May, 1861, he joined the Fourth Battalion Massachusetts Volunteer Militia along with several of his friends (they were called "The Harvard Regiment"), including his best friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr." "On June 30, 1862, Abbott was wounded in the right arm at the Battle of Glendale, Virginia, which compelled him to leave the regiment temporarily in order to recuperate at home. He refused to leave the field, however, until after the Battle of Malvern Hill the next day. On August 9, 1862, his brother Ned was killed in action at the Battle of Cedar Mountain." "In late March, 1863, Henry's 9 year old brother, Arthur, died from the croup." "On July 2, 1863, the regiment, under its new colonel, Paul J. Revere, grandson of the hero of the American Revolution of the same name, arrived in its position on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the second day of the battle. Later that night, they came under heavy shelling and Colonel Revere was mortally wounded. The bombardment was followed by Pickett's Charge which the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment took a key part in repelling. Abbott assumed command of the regiment when his superiors were wounded. Although the battle had been won, over half of the enlisted men and 10 of the 13 officers had been killed or wounded." "At the Battle of the Wilderness, on May 6, 1864, Major Henry Abbott was shot in the abdomen while encouraging his command from an exposed, standing position, after he ordered his men to fight while lying down. Mortally wounded, he died at a field hospital the same day." "Holmes, himself wounded three times, later said that Abbott was a friend whose death seemed to end a portion of his life also." "On December 2, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Major Abbott for the award of brevet brigadier general, the United States Senate confirmed the award. On February 15, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Abbott for the award of honorary grades of brevet lieutenant colonel, brevet colonel, and brevet brigadier general (regular Army), the US Senate confirmed the awards. Abbott has been said to have been the most widely known and admired officer of his grade in the Army of the Potomac. His good friend, future United States Supreme Court Justice Holmes, deeply admired Abbott for his courage and unruffled calm, and for his determination to duty even though he was politically opposed to Lincoln and did not support the abolition of slavery because he thought it would die out in the near future." "Holmes considered Abbott an ideal soldier, and praised him in a famous 1884 Memorial Day speech (people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/memorial.htm) stating that: "There is one who on this day is always present on my mind. He entered the army at nineteen, a second lieutenant. In the Wilderness, already at the head of his regiment, he fell, using the moment that was left him of life to give all of his little fortune to his soldiers. I saw him in camp, on the march, in action. I crossed debatable land with him when we were rejoining the Army together. I observed him in every kind of duty, and never in all the time I knew him did I see him fail to choose that alternative of conduct which was most disagreeable to himself. He was indeed a Puritan in all his virtues, without the Puritan austerity, for, when duty was at an end, he who had been the master and leader became the chosen companion in every pleasure that a man might honestly enjoy. His few surviving companions will never forget the awful spectacle of his advance alone with his company in the streets of Fredericksburg [the suicidal charge of the 20th Mass. Regiment occurred on December 11, 1862]. In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses. His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant, ten men falling dead by his side. He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting, had given the order, 'Second Platoon forward!' and was again moving on, in obedience to his superior command, to certain and useless death, when the order he was obeying was countermanded. The end was distant only a few seconds; but if you had seen him with his indifferent carriage, and sword swinging from his finger like a cane, you would never have suspected that he was doing more than conducting a company drill on the camp parade ground. He was little more than a boy, but the grizzled corps commanders knew and admired him; and for us, who not only admired him, but loved, his death seemed to end a portion of our life also."(12)
The paragraph from Holmes's speech in praise of Abbott is: "There is one who on this day is always present on my mind. He entered the army at nineteen, a second lieutenant. In the Wilderness, already at the head of his regiment, he fell, using the moment that was left him of life to give all of his little fortune to his soldiers. I saw him in camp, on the march, in action. I crossed debatable land with him when we were rejoining the Army together. I observed him in every kind of duty, and never in all the time I knew him did I see him fail to choose that alternative of conduct which was most disagreeable to himself. He was indeed a Puritan in all his virtues, without the Puritan austerity; for, when duty was at an end, he who had been the master and leader became the chosen companion in every pleasure that a man might honestly enjoy. His few surviving companions will never forget the awful spectacle of his advance alone with his company in the streets of Fredericksburg. In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses. His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant, ten men falling dead by his side. He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting, had given the order, "Second Platoon, forward!" and was again moving on, in obedience to superior command, to certain and useless death, when the order he was obeying was countermanded. The end was distant only a few seconds; but if you had seen him with his indifferent carriage, and sword swinging from his finger like a cane, you would never have suspected that he was doing more than conducting a company drill on the camp parade ground. He was little more than a boy, but the grizzled corps commanders knew and admired him; and for us, who not only admired, but loved, his death seemed to end a portion of our life also."
Holmes said a little later in the speech: "I have spoken of some of the men who were near to me among others very near and dear, not because their lives have become historic, but because their lives are the type of what every soldier has known and seen in his own company. In the great democracy of self-devotion private and general stand side by side. Unmarshalled save by their own deeds, the army of the dead sweep before us, "wearing their wounds like stars." It is not because the men I have mentioned were my friends that I have spoken of them, but, I repeat, because they are types. I speak of those whom I have seen. But you all have known such; you, too, remember!"
Source: http://people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/memorial.htm
This is a great book recording the men of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry and their actions throughout the Civil War.
https://archive.org/details/recordofsecondma00quin
Edward Gardner Abbott (1840-1862) "Received an AB from Harvard College in 1860 and was an officer with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was killed in action at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862." Son of Josiah Gardner Abbott and older brother of Henry Livermore Abbott.(12)
Fletcher Morton Abbott (1843- ?) "Was an officer with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was later appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier General William Dwight of the Nineteenth Army Corp, then stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was discharged from duty due to ill health on December 23, 1863." Son of Josiah Gardner Abbott and younger brother of Henry Livermore Abbott.(12)
Joseph Carter Abbott (1825-1882) "He studied at Phillips Andover Academy...and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was appointed adjutant -general of New Hampshire in 1855. He was also the editor of the Daily American journal. When the Civil War broke out he showed great energy and efficiency in raising and organizing this effort! On various occasions, he distinguished himself, but especially at the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, when his brigade stormed successfully several positions where the Confederates made a stand. After the war he removed to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was a member of the constitutional convention, was elected United States senator by the Republicans. Served as collector of the port under President Grant and was inspector of ports under President Hayes."(12)
Ira Coray Abbott (1824-1908) "He served during the Civil War. He was wounded in the face at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, and at the Battle of Gettysburg, his regiment was part of Colonel William S. Tilton's brigade that fought against attacking Confederates in the Stony Hill area West of the Wheatfield on July 2, 1863. Under intense fire, he was shot and seriously wounded. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the war. A monument to his regiment stands in the Loop on Sickles Avenue in the Gettysburg National Park." He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
After much research, I was able to verify my lineage to him. "He was born December 18,1824 in Burns, New York, and died October 9, 1908, in Washington, DC. His father is Edmund Austin Abbott, born August 15, 1801 in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, he died January 1, 1861. His next heir is James Abbott, born March 9, 1753 in Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut, died May 2, 1830 in Hornellville, Steuben, New York. Next is his great-grandfather Abiel Abbott, born March 3, 1726 in Hampton, CT, died May 21, 1772 in Andover, MA. Ira's next heir, William Abbot (1657-1713), is also my heir, we all descended from George Abbot and Hannah Chandler.(25)
Curtis Abbott (1841-1934) "Enlisted 11/12/1861, mustered in as Private, Company H, 2nd United States Sharp-shooters (USSS), 12/13/1861, re-enlisted 12/21/1863, promoted to Corporal 1/1/1863, promoted to Sergeant, promoted to First Sergeant 11/1/1864, wounded 5/1864, commissioned First Lieutenant 1/22/1865, transferred to Company H, 4th Vermont Infantry, 2/25/1865, mustered out 7/13/1865 (occupation: student, 5' 7 and 1/4", light complexion, blue eyes, dark hair."
“The anti-slavery movement had many supporters in Andover long before the war began. William Jenkins, and ardent abolitionist and friend of William Lloyd Garrison, and several others provided stops on the Underground Railway for runaway slaves. When the Confederate Army shelled Fort Sumter in 1861, a company of 79 volunteers was formed. By the time the war ended in 1865, 600 Andover residents had served in the Union Army, 53 lost their lives.” (5)
Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927) "Officer and military engineer in the United States Army." "He attended West Point and graduated second in his class (which included Jeb Stuart and G.W. Custis Lee)." "In 1855, Abbot was assigned to work with Lt. Robert Williamson's Pacific Railroad Survey in California and Oregon. To honor his work on this survey, the California Geological Survey named Mount Abbot in the Sierra Nevada after him in 1873." "At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lt. Abbot was assigned to Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's forces and was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run." "He was brevetted major for his service at the siege of Yorktown," Pennsylvania." "In December 1864 he was placed in command of all siege artillery in the Army of the Potomac and James." "General in Chief" of this force was "Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant." "On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted to Brigadier General, US Regular Army and Major General, US Volunteers for gallant and distinguished services during the war." "Immediately after the war, Abbot became the first Commander of the newly established Engineer School of Application...at West Point." He retired as a Colonel in 1895. "After his retirement he continued to work as a civil engineer and was employed as a consultant for the locks on the Panama Canal." "Abbot was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1863."(12)
Edward Stanley Abbot (1841-1863) "An aspiring writer, he attended some of the finer schools, including Harvard and Norwich. However, he had a strong sense of duty, feeling compelled to offer his life to fight for justice on earth. On July 1, 1862, he enlisted at Fort Preble, Portland," Maine. "Second Lieutenant 17th United States Infantry, November 10, 1862; First Lieutenant, April 27, 1863.". "On the evening of July 2, Lieutenant Abbott and fellow soldiers of the 17th descended the heights of Little Round Top, through the Valley of Death. Within 15 minutes, Abbott and another 150 soldiers of the 260-man unit were killed. Abbott was struck by a minie ball, which cut through his lung and remained lodged near his spine. He was taken to a nearby field hospital in a farm where he eventually died from the wound on July 8, 1863." "He lived long enough to understand that he died in victory, and that his blood was not lost." (Brother of Henry Larcom Abbot) He is buried in the Central Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.
"His mother was the grand-niece of the Honorable Nathan Dane (1752-1835), L.L.D., member of the Continental Congress in 1785-88, framer of the famous Ordinance of 1787, founder of the Dane Professorship of Law in Harvard University." (12)
Henry Livermore Abbott (1842-1864) "Was a Major in the Union Army. Abbott was posthumously awarded the rank of Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, on February 20, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services at the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was killed in action. He was engaged at the center of several key Civil War battles and was widely known and admired for his leadership, courage, and composure under fire." "He was the third of eleven children born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Gardner Abbott [descendant of George and Hannah and their son Timothy], a successful lawyer and judge. In 1876, he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Henry's mother, Caroline, was the daughter of US Congressman Edward St. Loe Livermore. Both of Henry's parents were descended from officers who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War." "Henry was a prodigy and in 1856 he enrolled in Harvard University at age 14 with his older brother Edward Gardner Abbott ("Ned" 1840-1862). He graduated in the class of 1860. Henry's father obtained an appointment for Henry as a Captain in the 2d Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment after the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter. Henry declined this appointment and in May, 1861, he joined the Fourth Battalion Massachusetts Volunteer Militia along with several of his friends (they were called "The Harvard Regiment"), including his best friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr." "On June 30, 1862, Abbott was wounded in the right arm at the Battle of Glendale, Virginia, which compelled him to leave the regiment temporarily in order to recuperate at home. He refused to leave the field, however, until after the Battle of Malvern Hill the next day. On August 9, 1862, his brother Ned was killed in action at the Battle of Cedar Mountain." "In late March, 1863, Henry's 9 year old brother, Arthur, died from the croup." "On July 2, 1863, the regiment, under its new colonel, Paul J. Revere, grandson of the hero of the American Revolution of the same name, arrived in its position on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the second day of the battle. Later that night, they came under heavy shelling and Colonel Revere was mortally wounded. The bombardment was followed by Pickett's Charge which the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment took a key part in repelling. Abbott assumed command of the regiment when his superiors were wounded. Although the battle had been won, over half of the enlisted men and 10 of the 13 officers had been killed or wounded." "At the Battle of the Wilderness, on May 6, 1864, Major Henry Abbott was shot in the abdomen while encouraging his command from an exposed, standing position, after he ordered his men to fight while lying down. Mortally wounded, he died at a field hospital the same day." "Holmes, himself wounded three times, later said that Abbott was a friend whose death seemed to end a portion of his life also." "On December 2, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Major Abbott for the award of brevet brigadier general, the United States Senate confirmed the award. On February 15, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Abbott for the award of honorary grades of brevet lieutenant colonel, brevet colonel, and brevet brigadier general (regular Army), the US Senate confirmed the awards. Abbott has been said to have been the most widely known and admired officer of his grade in the Army of the Potomac. His good friend, future United States Supreme Court Justice Holmes, deeply admired Abbott for his courage and unruffled calm, and for his determination to duty even though he was politically opposed to Lincoln and did not support the abolition of slavery because he thought it would die out in the near future." "Holmes considered Abbott an ideal soldier, and praised him in a famous 1884 Memorial Day speech (people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/memorial.htm) stating that: "There is one who on this day is always present on my mind. He entered the army at nineteen, a second lieutenant. In the Wilderness, already at the head of his regiment, he fell, using the moment that was left him of life to give all of his little fortune to his soldiers. I saw him in camp, on the march, in action. I crossed debatable land with him when we were rejoining the Army together. I observed him in every kind of duty, and never in all the time I knew him did I see him fail to choose that alternative of conduct which was most disagreeable to himself. He was indeed a Puritan in all his virtues, without the Puritan austerity, for, when duty was at an end, he who had been the master and leader became the chosen companion in every pleasure that a man might honestly enjoy. His few surviving companions will never forget the awful spectacle of his advance alone with his company in the streets of Fredericksburg [the suicidal charge of the 20th Mass. Regiment occurred on December 11, 1862]. In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses. His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant, ten men falling dead by his side. He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting, had given the order, 'Second Platoon forward!' and was again moving on, in obedience to his superior command, to certain and useless death, when the order he was obeying was countermanded. The end was distant only a few seconds; but if you had seen him with his indifferent carriage, and sword swinging from his finger like a cane, you would never have suspected that he was doing more than conducting a company drill on the camp parade ground. He was little more than a boy, but the grizzled corps commanders knew and admired him; and for us, who not only admired him, but loved, his death seemed to end a portion of our life also."(12)
The paragraph from Holmes's speech in praise of Abbott is: "There is one who on this day is always present on my mind. He entered the army at nineteen, a second lieutenant. In the Wilderness, already at the head of his regiment, he fell, using the moment that was left him of life to give all of his little fortune to his soldiers. I saw him in camp, on the march, in action. I crossed debatable land with him when we were rejoining the Army together. I observed him in every kind of duty, and never in all the time I knew him did I see him fail to choose that alternative of conduct which was most disagreeable to himself. He was indeed a Puritan in all his virtues, without the Puritan austerity; for, when duty was at an end, he who had been the master and leader became the chosen companion in every pleasure that a man might honestly enjoy. His few surviving companions will never forget the awful spectacle of his advance alone with his company in the streets of Fredericksburg. In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses. His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant, ten men falling dead by his side. He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting, had given the order, "Second Platoon, forward!" and was again moving on, in obedience to superior command, to certain and useless death, when the order he was obeying was countermanded. The end was distant only a few seconds; but if you had seen him with his indifferent carriage, and sword swinging from his finger like a cane, you would never have suspected that he was doing more than conducting a company drill on the camp parade ground. He was little more than a boy, but the grizzled corps commanders knew and admired him; and for us, who not only admired, but loved, his death seemed to end a portion of our life also."
Holmes said a little later in the speech: "I have spoken of some of the men who were near to me among others very near and dear, not because their lives have become historic, but because their lives are the type of what every soldier has known and seen in his own company. In the great democracy of self-devotion private and general stand side by side. Unmarshalled save by their own deeds, the army of the dead sweep before us, "wearing their wounds like stars." It is not because the men I have mentioned were my friends that I have spoken of them, but, I repeat, because they are types. I speak of those whom I have seen. But you all have known such; you, too, remember!"
Source: http://people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/memorial.htm
This is a great book recording the men of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry and their actions throughout the Civil War.
https://archive.org/details/recordofsecondma00quin
Edward Gardner Abbott (1840-1862) "Received an AB from Harvard College in 1860 and was an officer with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was killed in action at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862." Son of Josiah Gardner Abbott and older brother of Henry Livermore Abbott.(12)
Fletcher Morton Abbott (1843- ?) "Was an officer with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was later appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier General William Dwight of the Nineteenth Army Corp, then stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was discharged from duty due to ill health on December 23, 1863." Son of Josiah Gardner Abbott and younger brother of Henry Livermore Abbott.(12)
Joseph Carter Abbott (1825-1882) "He studied at Phillips Andover Academy...and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was appointed adjutant -general of New Hampshire in 1855. He was also the editor of the Daily American journal. When the Civil War broke out he showed great energy and efficiency in raising and organizing this effort! On various occasions, he distinguished himself, but especially at the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, when his brigade stormed successfully several positions where the Confederates made a stand. After the war he removed to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was a member of the constitutional convention, was elected United States senator by the Republicans. Served as collector of the port under President Grant and was inspector of ports under President Hayes."(12)
Ira Coray Abbott (1824-1908) "He served during the Civil War. He was wounded in the face at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, and at the Battle of Gettysburg, his regiment was part of Colonel William S. Tilton's brigade that fought against attacking Confederates in the Stony Hill area West of the Wheatfield on July 2, 1863. Under intense fire, he was shot and seriously wounded. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for gallant and meritorious service during the war. A monument to his regiment stands in the Loop on Sickles Avenue in the Gettysburg National Park." He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
After much research, I was able to verify my lineage to him. "He was born December 18,1824 in Burns, New York, and died October 9, 1908, in Washington, DC. His father is Edmund Austin Abbott, born August 15, 1801 in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, he died January 1, 1861. His next heir is James Abbott, born March 9, 1753 in Hampton, Windham County, Connecticut, died May 2, 1830 in Hornellville, Steuben, New York. Next is his great-grandfather Abiel Abbott, born March 3, 1726 in Hampton, CT, died May 21, 1772 in Andover, MA. Ira's next heir, William Abbot (1657-1713), is also my heir, we all descended from George Abbot and Hannah Chandler.(25)
Curtis Abbott (1841-1934) "Enlisted 11/12/1861, mustered in as Private, Company H, 2nd United States Sharp-shooters (USSS), 12/13/1861, re-enlisted 12/21/1863, promoted to Corporal 1/1/1863, promoted to Sergeant, promoted to First Sergeant 11/1/1864, wounded 5/1864, commissioned First Lieutenant 1/22/1865, transferred to Company H, 4th Vermont Infantry, 2/25/1865, mustered out 7/13/1865 (occupation: student, 5' 7 and 1/4", light complexion, blue eyes, dark hair."