Former professor of surgery at the New York Medical College, Dr. Abraham Liddon Cox resigned his New York practice at the opening of the American Civil War and became the Surgeon-in-Chief, 1st Division, 20th Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland. “Hastened by the labor and exposure incident to the active campaigns of that army,” Cox died of dysentery at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in July, 1864.
Dr. Cox was also a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and a member of its executive committee.
The Reverend Henry Miller Cox, The Cox Family in America, New York, 1912, pp. 92-93; Life, I, 398, 401-402, 407, 413, 415, 483
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840 by By William Lloyd Garrison, 1971
The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 12, 1865, page 84