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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Memoir. (search)
city engineer of Cambridge, and was most of the time engaged in running levels, establishing benches, and making plans for sewers; also in making preliminary studies and plans for the Charlestown Water Works. During the year he drew for General Henry L. Abbot, of Cambridge, a plan of the siege of Yorktown, Va., from notes by General Abbot. The execution of the plan so pleased the general that he procured for Mr. Elliot an appointment from the War Department as Assistant Topographical EngineeGeneral Abbot. The execution of the plan so pleased the general that he procured for Mr. Elliot an appointment from the War Department as Assistant Topographical Engineer. (See next paper for Mr. Elliot's war record.) In January, 1865, Mr. Elliot removed to Cambridge, Mass., and entered the office of William S. Barbour. During the year he was engaged in making railroad surveys from the limestone quarries to the lime kilns at Rockland, Me. During 1866 and 1867 he was engaged in the manufacture of paper collars and cuffs, for which much of the machinery used was either invented or improved by Mr. Elliot, and all the patterns and designs used were his own
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Mr. Elliot's Army record. (search)
ity of the work of Mr. Elliot as an engineer and draftsman had become widely known, but the drawing of a plan of the siege of Yorktown, Va., from notes of General Henry L. Abbot, of Cambridge, was so finely executed that, in order to express his appreciation of the work, General Abbot procured for Mr. Elliot an appointment from thGeneral Abbot procured for Mr. Elliot an appointment from the War Department as Assistant Topographical Engineer, Leaving the virtues of the turkey to be discussed by others, Mr. Elliot, in his young, patriotic, and vigorous manhood, on the day before Thanksgiving took train for New York, and on December 4, 1862, embarked on the transport North Star with General Banks' headquarters stafion got under way for Baton Rouge, and arrived there on December 17. The new staff of the department included Major David C. Houston, Chief Engineer, and Captain Henry L. Abbot, Chief of Topographical Engineers; the latter would therefore be regarded as Mr. Elliot's immediate commander. It appears from his paper on Port Hudson t
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
Index Abbot, Captain Henry L., 65. Abbott, General Henry L., 57, 64. Aborigines, 61. Acre, Siege of, 56. Adams, Cheree, 2. Adams, Henry, 47. Adams, Georgiana, 48. Adams, William, 45. Aldersey Street, 14. Alewife Bridge, 42. Alewife Brook, 34, 47. Alewife Brook School, 41. Alexandria, La., 66. Alexandria, Va., 41. Allen, Alfred, 47, 48. Allen, Ethan, 77. American Congress, The, 52. American Historical Association, 62. American Society of Civil Engineers, 62. American Tube Works, 18. Ames, T. Edward, 57. Andersonville, 34, 37. Annapolis, Md., 40. Appalachian Mountain Club, The, 24. Arlington Heights, Va., 41. Arlington, Mass., 3, 41, 43, 46. Arlington Water Works, 59. Armstrong, William H., 69. Army of the Potomac, 32. Army Record, Charles D. Elliot, 64. Ashby, Mass., 4. Asboth, General, 68. Ashton Hall, England, 56. Augur, —, 65, 67. Austin, Tex., 46. Avon, Mass., 45. Ayer, John C., 59. Ayer, John F., 22. Ayer, Mrs. John F