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Henry L. Abbot
Henry L. Abbot
Occupation	Army officer

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Biography

Henry L. Abbot^[1]

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.^[2]

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)

Notes and references

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^ "Henry L. Abbot Family Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress". (2004). Washington, DC: Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Retrieved May 26, 2014. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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