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Henry L. Abbot
Occupation	Army officer

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Biography

Henry L. Abbot

Timeline

August 13, 1831 (1831-08-13)

Born, Beverly, Mass.

1854 (1854)

Graduated second in his class, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

1854-1855 (1854-1855)

Second lieutenant, United States Corps of Topographical Engineers, Office of Pacific Railroad Explorations, Washington, D.C.

1855 (1855)

Assisted in railroad survey in California and Oregon

1856 (1856)

Married Mary Susan Everett (died 1871)

1857 (1857)

First lieutenant, United States Corps of Topographical Engineers

1857-1861 (1857-1861)

Assisted Captain Andrew A. Humphreys on survey of the Mississippi River delta and coauthored their Report upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River (1861)

1861-1862 (1861-1862)

Assistant topographical engineer, staff of General Irvin McDowell, United States Army Wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, Va.Assisted General John G. Barnard, chief engineer for the Department of Washington, in constructing forts south of the Potomac River Aide-de-camp to General Barnard in the Peninsular Campaign, Va.Chief topographical engineer for Major General Nathaniel Banks’s expedition to New Orleans, La.

1863-1865 (1863-1865)

Colonel, First Connecticut Artillery, United States Volunteers, in defense of Washington, D.C.Captain, Corps of Engineers, United States ArmyCommanded siege artillery for United States armies operating against Petersburg and Richmond, Va.

1865 (1865)

Mustered out of the volunteer service with brevet rank of major general and returned to regular duty in the Corps of Engineers with rank of major

1866-1886 (1866-1886)

Colonel, Corps of Engineers, United States Army

1888-1895 (1888-1895)

Member, Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, United States Department of War

1895 (1895)

Retired from active service

1897-1904 (1897-1904)

Member, technical committee, and consulting engineer, La Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama (New Panama Canal Co.)

1904 (1904)

Brigadier general, United States Army, retired, by Act of Congress

1905-1906 (1905-1906)

Member, board of consulting engineers appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to prepare plans for the Panama Canal

1905-1910 (1905-1910)

Professor of hydraulic engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

October 1, 1927 (1927-10-01)

Died, Cambridge, Mass.

Works or publications

• Abbot, Henry L.; Anderson, Frank J., 1919- (1966), Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare Under Captain Lieutenant David Bushnell, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, OCLC 581611.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Course of Lectures upon the Defence of the Sea-coast of the U.S : Delivered Before the U.S. Naval War College November, 1887, New York: Van Nostrand, 1888, OCLC 8177136.
• General G.K. Warren, West Point?, 1883, OCLC 14767630.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Abbot, Henry L.; United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates (1883), Gouverneur Kemble Warren No. 1451, Class of 1850, Died August 8, 1882, at Newport, R.I., Aged 52 Years, S.l.: s.n., OCLC 23683979.
• Half Century Record of the Class at West Point 1850 to 1854, Boston, Mass.: T. Todd, Printer, 1905, OCLC 5318510.
• Abbot, Henry L.; Millis, John, 1858-; U.S. Army Engineer School (1888), Notes on Electricity in Military and Industrial Engineering, New York?: Printed on the Press of the Battalion of Engineers, OCLC 7406882.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Abbot, Henry L.; Krebs, Charles G.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Gedney, J. F.; David Rumsey Collection; Cartography Associates (1862), Official Plan of the Siege of Yorktown, Va. Conducted by the Army of the Potomac Under Command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan U.S.A., April 5th to May 3rd 1862, Washington: Corps of Engineers?, OCLC 56890649.
• Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Abbot, Henry L.; Hagen, G. (Gotthilf), 1797-1884 (1878), Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi : Reply to Criticism Made by Dr. Hagen, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, OCLC 3238763.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Problems of the Panama Canal : Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics and Hydraulics of the River Chagres, Cut at the Continental Divide and Discussion of Plans for the Water-way, London: Macmillan Co., 1905, OCLC 1637384.
• Problems of the Panama Canal, Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics and Hydraulics of the River Chagres, Cut at the Continental Divide and Discussion of Plans for the Waterway, with History from 1890 to Date, London: Macmillan Co., 1907, OCLC 2056383.
• Abbot, Henry L.; United States. War Department; Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton), 1824-1882 (1855), Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot ... upon Explorations for a Railroad Route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River Made by Lieut. R.S. Williamson ... Assisted by Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Place of publication not identified: [publisher not identified], OCLC 9550815.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• United States. Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses; Abbot, Henry L.; Sampson, William Thomas, 1840-1902; Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1826-1900; Benét, S. V. (Stephen Vincent), 1827-1895; Morgan, Joseph, Jr (1886), Report of the Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses Appointed by the President of the United States Under the Provisions of the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1885 .., Washington: Govt. Print. Off., OCLC 4301445.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Report upon Experiments and Investigations to Develop a System of Submarine Mines for Defending the Harbors of the United States, Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1881, OCLC 2437922.
• Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Abbot, Henry L. (1876), Report upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and upon the Deepening of the Mouths: Based upon Surveys and Investigations Made Under the Acts of Congress Directing the Topographical and Hydrographical Survey of the Delta of the Mississippi River, with Such Investigations as Might Lead to Determine the Most Practicable Plan for Securing It from Inundation, and the Best Mode of Deepening the Channels at the Mouths of the River. Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department. 1861. <Reprinted with Additions.>, Washington: Govt. Print. Off., OCLC 3638167.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Abbot, Henry L. (1861), Report upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and upon the Deepening of the Mouths ... Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department, 1861, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., OCLC 1889940.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Siege Artillery in the Campaigns Against Richmond, with Notes on the 15-inch Gun, Including an Algebraic Analysis of the Trajectory of a Shot in Its Ricochets upon Smooth Water, Washington: G.P.O., 1867, OCLC 4368464.
• The Present Status of the Panama Canal, New York: Evening Post Job Printing House, 1898, OCLC 6868070.
• Abbot, Henry L.; United States. War Department; Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Cowles, Calvin D. (Calvin Duvall), 1849-; David Rumsey Collection; United States. Army of the Potomac; Cartography Associates; Julius Bien & Co (1891–1895), White House to Harrisons Landing, OCLC 58525677.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Abbot, Henry L.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Dougal, W. H.; David Rumsey Collection; Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Cartography Associates (1862), Williamsburg to White House, Washington?: Corps of Engineers?, OCLC 56837476.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Abbot, Henry L.; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers; Cartography Associates; David Rumsey Collection; Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; Dougal, W. H. (1862), Yorktown to Williamsburg, Washington?: Corps of Engineers?, OCLC 56837475.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

See also

• A. Humphreys
• Abraham Lincoln
• Calvin Cowles
• Cartography Associates
• David Bushnell
• David Rumsey Collection
• Emily Everett
• Frank Anderson
• G. Warren
• George Brinton McClellan
• Henry Larcom
• Julius Bien & Co
• Manuscript Division Library of Congress
• Margaret (Ship)
• Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
• United States
• United States. Army
• United States. Army.Corps of Engineers
• United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
• William Henry Seward

Further reading

• Abbot, Henry L. : Chief of Engineers, 1884, OCLC 137238039.
• Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1999, OCLC 40560422.
• [Henry L. Abbot, Half-length Portrait, Facing Left], 1848, OCLC 57549556.
• Notices on Problems of the Panama Canal by H.L. Abbot, OCLC 80088175.
• Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), 1872-1973 (1929), Biographical Memoir of Henry Larcom Abbot, 1831-1927, Washington: National academy of Sciences, OCLC 11766578.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Abbot, Catherine C. (2001), Family Letters of General Henry Larcom Abbot, 1831-1927, Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, OCLC 49942515.

• Abbot, Henry L., Letter, OCLC 733775826.

• Abbot, Henry L., Henry Larcom Abbot Papers, OCLC 62784792.

• Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889 (1863), Hydraulics of the Report of Humphreys and Abbott on the Mississippi River. A Review by Prof. F.A.P. Barnard. : (From the American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XXXVI.--July and September Nos., 1863), New Haven: Printed by E. Hayes., OCLC 191270620.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887 (1878), Humphreys and Abbot's Report on the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River, Saint Louis, Mo.: s.n., OCLC 191278875.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Albright, Horace M. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987; Matthes, François, 1874-1948; Online Archive of California; United States. National Park Service; Hall, Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin), 1894-1962; Stewart, George W. (George William), 1857-1931; Mather, Stephen Tyng, 1867-1930; Clyde, Norman, 1885-1972, Francis P. Farquhar Papers, OCLC 84653031.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

• Grebenau, Heinrich (1867), Beitrag Zur Humphreys-Abbot'schen Theorie Der Bewegung Des Wassers in Flüssen Und Canälen, Wien: Verlag des Ing.- und arch.-vereins, OCLC 45496855.
• Herringshaw, Thomas William (1909), Abbot, Henry Larcom, OCLC 134978117.
• Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927, Records of the Director Charles Sprague Sargent, OCLC 269373158.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

• Sawyer, Robert W. (Robert William), 1880-1959 (1932), Henry Larcom Abbott and the Pacific Railroad Surveys in Oregon, 1855, N.p., OCLC 16744771.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Sawyer, Robert W., Robert W. Sawyer Papers, OCLC 664569161.

• United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs; Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908 (1896), Report : [to Accompany S. 2225], Wash., D.C.: G.P.O., OCLC 83783351.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• In addition to Abbot’s diaries and papers held in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, other related material is also at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland.

External links

• The Henry L. Abbot Family Papers, 1770-2001
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• The Correspondence : Abbot (Henry) and Engelmann (George)

• The Edwin Hale Abbot Family Papers