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F.M. Abbott
(1843 - 1925)
Home State: Massachusetts
Education: Harvard Medical School, Class of 1875
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Company D on 8 July 1861 and First Lieutenant on 13 June 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on the staff of Brigadier General William Dwight in New Orleans in 1863. Resigned for illness on 23 December 1863.
After the War
He graduated with an MD from Harvard in 1875.
References & notes
Basic information from Quint1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph from the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection2. His brother Henry Livermore Abbott (KIA Wilderness, VA, 1864) was also at Antietam, with the 20th Massachusetts Infantry, His brother Edward Gardner Abbott (KIA Cedar Mountain, VA, 1862) had raised and Captained Company A of the 2nd, of which Fletcher had briefly been a member.
Birth
02/18/1843; Lowell, MA
Death
08/29/1925; Wellesley, MA; burial in Saint Marys Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, MA
1 Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 490 - 506 [AotW citation 14492]
2 US Army, Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)-Massachusetts Photograph Collection, Published 2009, <https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena>, Source page: Vol. 93, pg. 4751 [AotW citation 14503]