Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-08-01
OBITUARY..

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Many relations and friends will read this an
nouncement with sorrow for tho dead with ten
| der sympathy for the living.
few months ago, he left his home in the vigor
Of manhood reduced to a mere wreck by con-
inement and disease, he came homet to die. Sadly,
and tenderly did his family and friends, and
Spencer, his faithful servant, offer their soothing
ministrations during his last days. They forget
his faults, while they remember his generous,
kindly heart, and weep over his untimcly end.
May tho gracious God comfort and guide tho
aged father and mother, the faithful vito, and the
fatherless little ones so sadly bercaved. i.Y-s
DEPARTED this life, at the residence of his
parents, in the Village of Edgcfeld, on the 3O,h
June 1856, and in the 21st year of his age, JOHN
| BAY ABNEY, the last son Of DR.. N. W. and
CAROLINE SEADRooK ABYEY.
The deceased entered tho service Of the Con-
fedcrate States early in the war, first, in the
Regiment commanded by Col. AngEY, and then
in the cavalry Regiment comm manded by Col.
AIKEN, and was discharged from each, on the
Surgeons certificate of Disability. Assoon, how
ever, as his hoalth vas alittle restored, true to
tho spirit and traditons of his race, he fastened
to rcjoin the army, in the Battalion of Sharp
Shooters, commanded by his uncle, Major JOSEPH
ABNEr to which also was attached his brother-in-
law, the lamented PIcKEss BUTLER WATTS. He
served in this Corps, as Hospital Steward, untilS
it was amalgamatcd with the Charleston Battalion,
and the two were constituted the 9th So. Ca.
Infantry. Being then appointed Sergeant of his.
Company he soon participated in the action OF
Walthall Junction, which was fought in May,
1864. At one period of the battle, being much
exposed, his Company faltered. when ordered to
advance, and he, the youngest of its members,
moved forward to the onset, sand by his noble
example rc-estabished the courage apd confidence
6 For fhis brilliant
his first field, he was recommended for promotion,
whilst his brother-in-law WGTTsswas alike com.
mended for equally conspicuous behavior: In all
the first actions around Petersburg, he bore a E
manly part, though suffering, all the while, from
disease, which had ovon then fastened itself upon
his system. On the terrible 24ths j June, when
Hagood's glorious Brigade displayed so much
heroism, and shed so. much blood, in carrying. us
Skrmishers the Rife pits the enemy, Sors'ts
ARsEr and WATTS, in the absence of commands
ing officers, were each appointed by Genl. Hagood,
Lieutepants, Protsmpare, in compliment to their
skill and gollantry. and assigned TO the command
of Companies. serg't WArTs, in an almosth hand
to hand conflict with the foe, fell like hero on
their bristling ramparts. Sergt. AnSEY, more
fortunate for the time, carried with his company,
and the company on his right or left, which had
lost its commander, the extreme xght of tho cEe--
my's lines resting ON the AppomattoS, and after
holding 1t for sometime, actually 5ore of twenty
five or thirty prisoners, in triumph. The demea--
nor of troops, this part of the line elected
from Genl, LEE, who was beholder from the
othor side of the river, the warmest encomiums.
But in che next disastrous engagement of Genl.
HAGooD's, on the Weldon Road, JOHN ABNEY,
along with many others, was captured, and carried
prisoner to Point Lookout, the disease of the
kidneys under which he had been suffering for
years, became aggravated by privation md expo,-
sure, and don his release, he returned home BUTTE
linger and to die s.:.1g- y -. : Il.
But in his death, he has left us the same exam
pie of heroic endurance, of Christian fortitude..
and Christian hope, that illustrated the brighter
portion of his youthful existence. Amid his long
protracted sufferings, henever repined-nevsrc com.
planned at the dispensations of Providence. His
whole life was marked by flial devotion, and was
free from guile, and as he lad lived without
reproach, he died without fear. no
This family has been truly afflicted by tho
scourgc of war. Their eldest son, JosEru AnsEY.i
who was pattern of every virtue, after passing
through all the earlier battles and campaigns
with little injury to his person, and after winninp
aname for courage and intrepidity, that would
have done honor to the proudest soldier in ths
army of Virginia, persisted, in the front ranvs
of his company, on the bloody field of Sharps-
burg. Them the chivalrons high.ssuled W.rre
followed in his track Of glory; andJoaS B. AnNEY.
the last-the only son,-and because the last, the
bost beloved, is now summoned to Heaven tn ;o;S
his immortal brothers, Where the wicked cssae
from troubling, end thS weary are st rssts.
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