TY  - GEN
AU  - Abbot,Henry L.
TI  - Henry L. Abbot family papers,
KW  - Abbot, Edward Stanley,
KW  - Abbot, Fanny Larcom,
KW  - Abbot, Frederic V.
KW  - Abbot, Jos. Hale
KW  - Abbot, Mary Susan Everett,
KW  - Everett, Emily,
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Larcom, Henry,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - McClellan, George Brinton,
KW  - Seward, William Henry,
KW  - Abbott family
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Ordnance and ordnance stores
KW  - Corps of Engineers
KW  - President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
KW  - Emancipation Proclamation
KW  - Margaret (Ship)
KW  - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
KW  - Fortification
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
KW  - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
KW  - Peninsular Campaign, 1862
KW  - Cambridge (Mass.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Petersburg (Va.)
KW  - Siege, 1864-1865
KW  - Richmond (Va.)
KW  - Artillery operations
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Causes
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Technology
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, memoirs, diaries, writings, photographs, legal and financial records, biographical and genealogical material, military records, ships logs, maps, printed matter, mementos, and other papers primarily documenting Henry L. Abbot's service as topographical engineer and officer in the Union Army and family life and social activities in Massachusetts during the Civil War; Subjects include the First Battle of Bull Run, construction of fortifications around Washington, D.C., the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, U.S. Army movements during the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., in 1864 and 1865, Abraham Lincoln's administration, African American soldiers, religion, Union commanders, ordnance technology, causes of the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, Ulysses S. Grant's situation in Virginia, George B. McClellan's presidential bid, childhood activities of Abbot's son Frederic V. Abbot, death of Abbot's brother Edward Stanley Abbot at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1863, and Washington, D.C., social life in 1857. Includes reminiscences about the Abbot family and life in Cambridge, Mass., by Abbot's mother-in-law Emily Everett, recollections of Abbot's childhood by his mother Fanny Larcom Abbot, and a file pertaining to the life of Henry Larcom, shipmaster and Abbot's maternal grandfather, including Larcom's survival of the wreck of the Margaret in 1810 in the North Atlantic during the Napoleonic Wars; Correspondents include Fanny Larcom Abbot, Joseph Hale Abbot, Mary Susan ("Susie") Everett Abbot, and William Henry Seward
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007005
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007005.3
ER  -