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Joseph Carter Abbott
Joseph Carter Abbott (July 15, 1825 – October 8, 1881) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War who was awarded the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and a Republican United States senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1871. During his career in private life he was a lawyer, newspaper editor and businessman. He also served as collector of the port of Wilmington, inspector of posts along the eastern line of the southern coast during the Rutherford B. Hayes Administration, and special agent of the United States Treasury Department.
Abbott was born in Concord, New Hampshire on July 15, 1825, to farmer Aaron Carter Abbott and Nancy Badger, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1846, having studied there and under private auspices. He studied law at Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. From 1852 to 1857, Abbott was the owner and editor of the Daily American newspaper, in Manchester, New Hampshire. His success with it led to his being given the position of editor of the Boston Atlas and Bee, which he held from 1859 through 1861.
He served as Adjutant General of New Hampshire from 1855 to 1861, reorganizing the state militia during that time. He was also a member of the commission to adjust the boundary between New Hampshire and Canada. He early joined the Know Nothing Party, and during all these years was a frequent contributor to the magazines, being particularly interested in historical matters.
Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, Abbott resigned his adjutant generalship and was dispatched to Washington D.C. to serve as a liaison between the New Hampshire and federal government. U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron authorized him to raise a federal regiment in New Hampshire. In December 1861, Abbott became the lieutenant colonel of the 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment and participated in the battles of Port Royal Sound, St. John's Bluff, Fort Pulaski and Fort Wagner. In November 1863, he became colonel of the regiment and led it at the Battle of Olustee and during the subsequent Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia.
During the siege of Petersburg, he commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps at Chaffin's Farm and the subsequent actions along the Darbytown and New Market Roads. The Army of the James was then reorganized and his command became the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIV Corps which was attached to the Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps under Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry and participated in the second battle of Fort Fisher and the capture of Wilmington. Although Abbott was not appointed as a full, substantive rank general, on January 25, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Abbott for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from January 15, 1865 for gallant services in the capture of Fort Fisher and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on February 14, 1865. During the final stages of the war, he was stationed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
While stationed in North Carolina as the post commander of Wilmington, Abbott befriended local businessmen. Sensing a business opportunity in a region with ample timber resources and labor but little capital, he permanently relocated to Wilmington at the end of his military service and began acquiring land and clearing pine forest in Bladen County. Ultimately, he amassed approximately 3,000 of acres of land along the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. With the help of other Northern investors, he co-founded two companies, the Bladen Land Company and the Cape Fear Building Company. The former harvested timber and the latter crafted cut wood products and constructed buildings. Abbott served as president and treasurer of the Bladen Land Company, while the Cape Fear Building Company was largely managed as a partnership, with him managing its business affairs and co-founder Alexander Strausz tending to architectural concerns.
Business initially prospered for Abbott, and his corporations drew praise from across the state's political spectrum. The concentration of the companies' operations in Bladen led to the creation of the community of Abbottsburg. By 1870, the community included a company store, several factory buildings, numerous homes—including one occupied by Abbott, and hosted about 500 residents. The Cape Fear Building Company won key building contracts in Wilmington and advertised its products as a far away as Cuba. By the mid–1870s, deforestation and the economic fallout of the panic Panic of 1873 had diminished its prospects, and in early 1876 the company went bankrupt and was liquidated at auction. One newspaper later reported that Abbott had lost $100,000 in the business failure. As a result, he withdrew to Wilmington; by 1880 he was reportedly living with his wife in a city hotel.
Abbott was active in state politics.[citation needed] He attended and was elected chairman of North Carolina's first Republican convention in September 1867. He attended the Republican state conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880. On October 17, 1867, the New Hanover County Republican convention nominated Abbott, Abraham Galloway, and Samuel S. Ashley as their three candidates for the delegation to the constitutional convention. Voters in the county overwhelmingly voted in favor of calling a new constitutional convention and confirmed Abbott, Galloway and Ashley as their delegates.
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Joseph Carter Abbott
Joseph Carter Abbott (July 15, 1825 – October 8, 1881) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War who was awarded the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and a Republican United States senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1871. During his career in private life he was a lawyer, newspaper editor and businessman. He also served as collector of the port of Wilmington, inspector of posts along the eastern line of the southern coast during the Rutherford B. Hayes Administration, and special agent of the United States Treasury Department.
Abbott was born in Concord, New Hampshire on July 15, 1825, to farmer Aaron Carter Abbott and Nancy Badger, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1846, having studied there and under private auspices. He studied law at Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. From 1852 to 1857, Abbott was the owner and editor of the Daily American newspaper, in Manchester, New Hampshire. His success with it led to his being given the position of editor of the Boston Atlas and Bee, which he held from 1859 through 1861.
He served as Adjutant General of New Hampshire from 1855 to 1861, reorganizing the state militia during that time. He was also a member of the commission to adjust the boundary between New Hampshire and Canada. He early joined the Know Nothing Party, and during all these years was a frequent contributor to the magazines, being particularly interested in historical matters.
Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, Abbott resigned his adjutant generalship and was dispatched to Washington D.C. to serve as a liaison between the New Hampshire and federal government. U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron authorized him to raise a federal regiment in New Hampshire. In December 1861, Abbott became the lieutenant colonel of the 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment and participated in the battles of Port Royal Sound, St. John's Bluff, Fort Pulaski and Fort Wagner. In November 1863, he became colonel of the regiment and led it at the Battle of Olustee and during the subsequent Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia.
During the siege of Petersburg, he commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps at Chaffin's Farm and the subsequent actions along the Darbytown and New Market Roads. The Army of the James was then reorganized and his command became the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIV Corps which was attached to the Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps under Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry and participated in the second battle of Fort Fisher and the capture of Wilmington. Although Abbott was not appointed as a full, substantive rank general, on January 25, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Abbott for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from January 15, 1865 for gallant services in the capture of Fort Fisher and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on February 14, 1865. During the final stages of the war, he was stationed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
While stationed in North Carolina as the post commander of Wilmington, Abbott befriended local businessmen. Sensing a business opportunity in a region with ample timber resources and labor but little capital, he permanently relocated to Wilmington at the end of his military service and began acquiring land and clearing pine forest in Bladen County. Ultimately, he amassed approximately 3,000 of acres of land along the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. With the help of other Northern investors, he co-founded two companies, the Bladen Land Company and the Cape Fear Building Company. The former harvested timber and the latter crafted cut wood products and constructed buildings. Abbott served as president and treasurer of the Bladen Land Company, while the Cape Fear Building Company was largely managed as a partnership, with him managing its business affairs and co-founder Alexander Strausz tending to architectural concerns.
Business initially prospered for Abbott, and his corporations drew praise from across the state's political spectrum. The concentration of the companies' operations in Bladen led to the creation of the community of Abbottsburg. By 1870, the community included a company store, several factory buildings, numerous homes—including one occupied by Abbott, and hosted about 500 residents. The Cape Fear Building Company won key building contracts in Wilmington and advertised its products as a far away as Cuba. By the mid–1870s, deforestation and the economic fallout of the panic Panic of 1873 had diminished its prospects, and in early 1876 the company went bankrupt and was liquidated at auction. One newspaper later reported that Abbott had lost $100,000 in the business failure. As a result, he withdrew to Wilmington; by 1880 he was reportedly living with his wife in a city hotel.
Abbott was active in state politics.[citation needed] He attended and was elected chairman of North Carolina's first Republican convention in September 1867. He attended the Republican state conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880. On October 17, 1867, the New Hanover County Republican convention nominated Abbott, Abraham Galloway, and Samuel S. Ashley as their three candidates for the delegation to the constitutional convention. Voters in the county overwhelmingly voted in favor of calling a new constitutional convention and confirmed Abbott, Galloway and Ashley as their delegates.