Database of 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor Vol 1 page 44
Civil War Companies A & E, 1st IL LT ART
1st Lieutenant
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT
Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 1901
First Lieutenant /- Fiirst Illinois Artillery, L United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January 9, 1891.
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832.He received his academic education at Amherst college, and his professional
training in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton.
He came to Chicago in 1857 or 1858 and began the practice of the law with excellent prospect of success. Ardent in his love of country and intense in his hatred of all forms of slavery and oppression he took an active part in the presidential contest which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. And when war came, his patriotic fervor reaching the point of white heat naturally made him among the first to respond to the call for troops.
Lieutenant Abbott enlisted April 21, 1861, as a private in Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery; was promoted Senior First Lieutenant in Battery E of the same regiment in December, 1861. This Battery was attached to General W. T. Sherman s Division, and in the battle of Shiloh is said to have fired the first shot. In this terrible and bloody struggle Lieutenant Abbott was severely wounded by a minie ball in the left shoulder, the effect of which lasted through life, making it impossible for him to raise his left arm or to bear any weight upon it. He however, as soon as permitted, rejoined his command and was again wounded in the Tallahatchie Campaign. In March, 1863, "on account of wounds received in battle and resulting disability," he resigned his commission and returned to Chicago to resume the practice of law.
Language can add nothing to the eloquence of such a record of prompt, brave, loyal service in the cause of country and freedom. The same absolute fidelity to truth and a high sense of duty which actuated our companion and friend at this beginning of his career and sent him into the army, there to do his share towards the preservation of a republican form of government and our free institutions was through life a notable characteristic of him as a citizen and as a member of the honorable profession of the law. In his professional life his prominent characteristic was his perfect fairness and honesty. This quality arose not from motives of expediency or policy, but was so ingrained in his very nature that he accorded the same virtues to his fellow men as a necessary attribute of their humanity.
He possessed a strong, clear mind, enriched by a broad and liberal reading not alone in the law but as well in the ampler and sweeter fields of poetry and general literature.
His home life was ideal. In the tender and true love (the tenderest and truest love this world can give) of a cultivated and congenial wife and two fond daughters, Abbott found ever his content and earthly happiness.
To this family the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Lieutenant Abbott was a highly honored and justly esteemed companion, herein tender condolence and sympathy.
RICHARD S. TUTHILL,
HENRY Y. CALDWELL,
ALLEN C. WATERHOUSE,
Committee.
Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States V1
Artillery. Maj. Ezra Taylor, Chief of Artillery. Taylor's Battery (B), 1st Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. Samuel E. Barrett. Waterhouse's Battery (I Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse. Lieut. Abial R. Abbott, Lieut. John A. Fitch. Morton Battery, 6th Indiana Light Artillery, Capt. Frederick Behr.Name, Rank, Date of Muster, Remarks
ABBOTT, Abial R 1st Lt. --- Dec 19, 1861 Resigned Feb 25, 1863
Civil War Companies A & E, 1st IL LT ART
1st Lieutenant
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT
Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 1901
First Lieutenant /- Fiirst Illinois Artillery, L United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January 9, 1891.
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832.He received his academic education at Amherst college, and his professional
training in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton.
He came to Chicago in 1857 or 1858 and began the practice of the law with excellent prospect of success. Ardent in his love of country and intense in his hatred of all forms of slavery and oppression he took an active part in the presidential contest which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. And when war came, his patriotic fervor reaching the point of white heat naturally made him among the first to respond to the call for troops.
Lieutenant Abbott enlisted April 21, 1861, as a private in Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery; was promoted Senior First Lieutenant in Battery E of the same regiment in December, 1861. This Battery was attached to General W. T. Sherman s Division, and in the battle of Shiloh is said to have fired the first shot. In this terrible and bloody struggle Lieutenant Abbott was severely wounded by a minie ball in the left shoulder, the effect of which lasted through life, making it impossible for him to raise his left arm or to bear any weight upon it. He however, as soon as permitted, rejoined his command and was again wounded in the Tallahatchie Campaign. In March, 1863, "on account of wounds received in battle and resulting disability," he resigned his commission and returned to Chicago to resume the practice of law.
Language can add nothing to the eloquence of such a record of prompt, brave, loyal service in the cause of country and freedom. The same absolute fidelity to truth and a high sense of duty which actuated our companion and friend at this beginning of his career and sent him into the army, there to do his share towards the preservation of a republican form of government and our free institutions was through life a notable characteristic of him as a citizen and as a member of the honorable profession of the law. In his professional life his prominent characteristic was his perfect fairness and honesty. This quality arose not from motives of expediency or policy, but was so ingrained in his very nature that he accorded the same virtues to his fellow men as a necessary attribute of their humanity.
He possessed a strong, clear mind, enriched by a broad and liberal reading not alone in the law but as well in the ampler and sweeter fields of poetry and general literature.
His home life was ideal. In the tender and true love (the tenderest and truest love this world can give) of a cultivated and congenial wife and two fond daughters, Abbott found ever his content and earthly happiness.
To this family the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Lieutenant Abbott was a highly honored and justly esteemed companion, herein tender condolence and sympathy.
RICHARD S. TUTHILL,
HENRY Y. CALDWELL,
ALLEN C. WATERHOUSE,
Committee.
Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States V1
Artillery. Maj. Ezra Taylor, Chief of Artillery. Taylor's Battery (B), 1st Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. Samuel E. Barrett. Waterhouse's Battery (I Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse. Lieut. Abial R. Abbott, Lieut. John A. Fitch. Morton Battery, 6th Indiana Light Artillery, Capt. Frederick Behr.Name, Rank, Date of Muster, Remarks
ABBOTT, Abial R 1st Lt. --- Dec 19, 1861 Resigned Feb 25, 1863
Database of 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor Vol 1 page 44
Civil War Companies A & E, 1st IL LT ART
1st Lieutenant
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT
Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 1901
First Lieutenant /- Fiirst Illinois Artillery, L United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January 9, 1891.
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832.He received his academic education at Amherst college, and his professional
training in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton.
He came to Chicago in 1857 or 1858 and began the practice of the law with excellent prospect of success. Ardent in his love of country and intense in his hatred of all forms of slavery and oppression he took an active part in the presidential contest which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. And when war came, his patriotic fervor reaching the point of white heat naturally made him among the first to respond to the call for troops.
Lieutenant Abbott enlisted April 21, 1861, as a private in Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery; was promoted Senior First Lieutenant in Battery E of the same regiment in December, 1861. This Battery was attached to General W. T. Sherman s Division, and in the battle of Shiloh is said to have fired the first shot. In this terrible and bloody struggle Lieutenant Abbott was severely wounded by a minie ball in the left shoulder, the effect of which lasted through life, making it impossible for him to raise his left arm or to bear any weight upon it. He however, as soon as permitted, rejoined his command and was again wounded in the Tallahatchie Campaign. In March, 1863, "on account of wounds received in battle and resulting disability," he resigned his commission and returned to Chicago to resume the practice of law.
Language can add nothing to the eloquence of such a record of prompt, brave, loyal service in the cause of country and freedom. The same absolute fidelity to truth and a high sense of duty which actuated our companion and friend at this beginning of his career and sent him into the army, there to do his share towards the preservation of a republican form of government and our free institutions was through life a notable characteristic of him as a citizen and as a member of the honorable profession of the law. In his professional life his prominent characteristic was his perfect fairness and honesty. This quality arose not from motives of expediency or policy, but was so ingrained in his very nature that he accorded the same virtues to his fellow men as a necessary attribute of their humanity.
He possessed a strong, clear mind, enriched by a broad and liberal reading not alone in the law but as well in the ampler and sweeter fields of poetry and general literature.
His home life was ideal. In the tender and true love (the tenderest and truest love this world can give) of a cultivated and congenial wife and two fond daughters, Abbott found ever his content and earthly happiness.
To this family the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Lieutenant Abbott was a highly honored and justly esteemed companion, herein tender condolence and sympathy.
RICHARD S. TUTHILL,
HENRY Y. CALDWELL,
ALLEN C. WATERHOUSE,
Committee.
Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States V1
Artillery. Maj. Ezra Taylor, Chief of Artillery. Taylor's Battery (B), 1st Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. Samuel E. Barrett. Waterhouse's Battery (I Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse. Lieut. Abial R. Abbott, Lieut. John A. Fitch. Morton Battery, 6th Indiana Light Artillery, Capt. Frederick Behr.Name, Rank, Date of Muster, Remarks
ABBOTT, Abial R 1st Lt. --- Dec 19, 1861 Resigned Feb 25, 1863
Civil War Companies A & E, 1st IL LT ART
1st Lieutenant
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT
Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 1901
First Lieutenant /- Fiirst Illinois Artillery, L United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January 9, 1891.
ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832.He received his academic education at Amherst college, and his professional
training in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton.
He came to Chicago in 1857 or 1858 and began the practice of the law with excellent prospect of success. Ardent in his love of country and intense in his hatred of all forms of slavery and oppression he took an active part in the presidential contest which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. And when war came, his patriotic fervor reaching the point of white heat naturally made him among the first to respond to the call for troops.
Lieutenant Abbott enlisted April 21, 1861, as a private in Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery; was promoted Senior First Lieutenant in Battery E of the same regiment in December, 1861. This Battery was attached to General W. T. Sherman s Division, and in the battle of Shiloh is said to have fired the first shot. In this terrible and bloody struggle Lieutenant Abbott was severely wounded by a minie ball in the left shoulder, the effect of which lasted through life, making it impossible for him to raise his left arm or to bear any weight upon it. He however, as soon as permitted, rejoined his command and was again wounded in the Tallahatchie Campaign. In March, 1863, "on account of wounds received in battle and resulting disability," he resigned his commission and returned to Chicago to resume the practice of law.
Language can add nothing to the eloquence of such a record of prompt, brave, loyal service in the cause of country and freedom. The same absolute fidelity to truth and a high sense of duty which actuated our companion and friend at this beginning of his career and sent him into the army, there to do his share towards the preservation of a republican form of government and our free institutions was through life a notable characteristic of him as a citizen and as a member of the honorable profession of the law. In his professional life his prominent characteristic was his perfect fairness and honesty. This quality arose not from motives of expediency or policy, but was so ingrained in his very nature that he accorded the same virtues to his fellow men as a necessary attribute of their humanity.
He possessed a strong, clear mind, enriched by a broad and liberal reading not alone in the law but as well in the ampler and sweeter fields of poetry and general literature.
His home life was ideal. In the tender and true love (the tenderest and truest love this world can give) of a cultivated and congenial wife and two fond daughters, Abbott found ever his content and earthly happiness.
To this family the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Lieutenant Abbott was a highly honored and justly esteemed companion, herein tender condolence and sympathy.
RICHARD S. TUTHILL,
HENRY Y. CALDWELL,
ALLEN C. WATERHOUSE,
Committee.
Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States V1
Artillery. Maj. Ezra Taylor, Chief of Artillery. Taylor's Battery (B), 1st Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. Samuel E. Barrett. Waterhouse's Battery (I Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse. Lieut. Abial R. Abbott, Lieut. John A. Fitch. Morton Battery, 6th Indiana Light Artillery, Capt. Frederick Behr.Name, Rank, Date of Muster, Remarks
ABBOTT, Abial R 1st Lt. --- Dec 19, 1861 Resigned Feb 25, 1863
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