Father: Samuel Hulett Aby

Mother: Sarah Ann Brown

1850 - Lived, Grand Gulf, Claiborne Co, MS

1856-57 - Student, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (from New Orleans, LA)

05/26/1861 - Enlisted, 1st Co, Washington

Artillery Battalion [LA], New Orleans, LA

05/26/1861 - Pvt., Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

08/06/1861 - Promoted to Cpl., Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

10/22/1861 - Promoted to Sgt., Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

06/00/1862 - Sgt., Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

07/19/1862 - Promoted to 1st Sgt., Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

01/01/1863 - 1st Sgt., 1st Co, Washington Artillery Battalion [LA]

01/31/1863 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for Asst. Surgeon position

01/31/1863 - Ordered to report to the Washington Artillery [AL]

02/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Washington Artillery Battalion [LA], camp near Chesterfield Depot, Caroline Co, VA

06/10/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 01/31/1863

06/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Washington Artillery Battalion [LA], Chambersburg, PA

07/03/1863 - "Left with the wounded, Gettysburg, Pa."

07/05/1863 - Captured, Gettysburg, PA

08/09/1863 - On list of prisoners of war received at Fort Monroe, Va., from Baltimore,

MD and sent to Fort Norfolk, VA, for confinement until further orders

08/10/1863 - Prisoner of war sent from Fort Norfolk, VA, to Fort McHenry, MD

10/10/1863 - Escaped from Fort McHenry, MD [He was not confined with other prisoners.]

12/18/1863 - Returned "from special duty with the wounded, Gettysburg, Pa."

01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon, by the Confederate States Senate

02/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Washington Artillery Battalion [LA], Petersburg, VA

07/25/1864 - Served on Army Board of Medical Examination

09/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Washington

Artillery Battalion [LA], Army of Northern

Virginia, near Petersburg, VA

02/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Washington

Artillery Battalion [LA], near Petersburg, VA

04/00/1865 - Paroled by the U.S. Army,

Lynchburg, VA

1866 - M.D. degree, University of Louisiana, Medical Department, New Orleans, LA (from Monroe, LA)

1870 - Practiced medicine, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA

01/17/1871 - Married, Margaret L. Boland, Orleans Parish, LA (she died in 1882)

1874 - Practiced medicine, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA

08/01/1878 - Elected as a member of the Monroe [LA] Board of Health by the City Council

1880 - Practiced medicine, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA

1880-1885 - Louisiana State Senator

12/16/1884 - Married, Emily Turney (1866-1943)

1885 - Mayor, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA

1886,1890,1893,1896 - Practiced medicine, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA

1898 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Army, Spanish-American War

1903 - Practiced medicine, Quarantine, Plaquemines Parish, LA

12/24/1905 - Died, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA (cause: cerebral hemorrhage)

1943 - Widow, Emily, died (buried: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. Orleans

Parish, LA; FindaGrave 3243737728)

1950 - Re-interred in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA, presumably to be with his wife, Emily. New FindaGrave memorial #243737106) [Note: This is based on the records obtained from Metairie Cemetery on 03/05/2024.]

Note: Significant information for this biography was supplied by Bob Krick.

This biographical sketch is from:

Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical

register of physicians who served the

Confederacy in a medical capacity.

12/20/2012. Updated 03/05/2024.

Unpublished database.