Joseph Mathew ABNEY1
M, b. 1841, d. 17 September 1862
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- 3rd cousin 3 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
Joseph Mathew ABNEY, son of Dr. Mathew Wills ABNEY and Caroline Seabrook Blocker, was born in 1841 in Edgefield County, Maryland.2
Joseph began military service in January 1861 in Edgefield, South Carolina, enlisting in the "Edgefield Rifles." After some months of service on Sullivan's and Morris' Islands, he volunteered to go with the 1st South Carolina regiment under Col. Gregg. After serving out his time with the First he returned home only to suffer a severe attack of typhoid fever. Surviving that illness he enlisted in Col. Bland's company H of the 7th South Carolina Infantry, serving in every campaign and battle of that regiment from the Manassas retreat to the battles around Richmond to Sharpsburg where he was killed. In a letter to Joseph's mother a neighbor wrote, "It affords me a melancholy pleasure to give you such a slight information concerning him as I possess, and to testify to the gallant manner in which he conducted himself upon the Feld on which he was wounded. On the 17th of September we engaged the enemy at Sharpsburg, Maryland. In making a desperate, but unsuccessful charge upon one of the enemy's batteries, many of our men fell, and amongst them, near to the guns, your son was shot down. I saw him as we fell back. He called to me as I passed him, asked me if I could give him a drink of water from my canteen, saying at the same time, 'I am wounded in the leg.' I paused a moment to glance at him, but having no water, being unable to render him any assistance, and being left in command of my regiment, I passed on to a point at which we were ordered to rally. ...In my association with your son, I had learned to regard him as high-toned, gallant, honorable. He won the affection of his companions and the respect of all who knew him."
Colonel Joseph Abney, in a letter to his brother: "He was the most trust-worthy and reliable young man of all my kindred and of all my acquaintance, and he had the highest place in my esteem and in my warm affections. His image can never be effaced from my heart, and if he is fallen, the lost to me is irreparable, for he stood to me as the same relation as son."3
Joseph Mathew ABNEY died on 17 September 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland.1 He was buried in Edgefield Village Cemetery.
Joseph began military service in January 1861 in Edgefield, South Carolina, enlisting in the "Edgefield Rifles." After some months of service on Sullivan's and Morris' Islands, he volunteered to go with the 1st South Carolina regiment under Col. Gregg. After serving out his time with the First he returned home only to suffer a severe attack of typhoid fever. Surviving that illness he enlisted in Col. Bland's company H of the 7th South Carolina Infantry, serving in every campaign and battle of that regiment from the Manassas retreat to the battles around Richmond to Sharpsburg where he was killed. In a letter to Joseph's mother a neighbor wrote, "It affords me a melancholy pleasure to give you such a slight information concerning him as I possess, and to testify to the gallant manner in which he conducted himself upon the Feld on which he was wounded. On the 17th of September we engaged the enemy at Sharpsburg, Maryland. In making a desperate, but unsuccessful charge upon one of the enemy's batteries, many of our men fell, and amongst them, near to the guns, your son was shot down. I saw him as we fell back. He called to me as I passed him, asked me if I could give him a drink of water from my canteen, saying at the same time, 'I am wounded in the leg.' I paused a moment to glance at him, but having no water, being unable to render him any assistance, and being left in command of my regiment, I passed on to a point at which we were ordered to rally. ...In my association with your son, I had learned to regard him as high-toned, gallant, honorable. He won the affection of his companions and the respect of all who knew him."
Colonel Joseph Abney, in a letter to his brother: "He was the most trust-worthy and reliable young man of all my kindred and of all my acquaintance, and he had the highest place in my esteem and in my warm affections. His image can never be effaced from my heart, and if he is fallen, the lost to me is irreparable, for he stood to me as the same relation as son."3
Joseph Mathew ABNEY died on 17 September 1862 in Sharpsburg, Maryland.1 He was buried in Edgefield Village Cemetery.
Last Edited=14 Jun 2020
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