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One volume (70 pages) of memoirs relating mainly to family affairs and to Abbott's service in Company E, lst Minnesota Volunteers (April-August 1861) and in the Signal Corps (August 1861-August 1865) with the Army of the Potomac in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. Includes 2 accounts by Abbott of Abraham Lincoln's visit to Fort Stevens, Washington, D.C., (1864 July) when the fort was under attack by Confederate troops commanded by Gen. Jubal Early; Abbott's description of his experiences in a hurricane near Key West, Fla., in 1869, when he was assigned to the 3d U.S. artillery; and a synopsis of Abbott's military career by Col. Benjamin F. Fisher.
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United States, United States. Army. Regiment of Artillery, 3rd, United States. Army. Signal Corps, Campaigns, Hurricanes, United States. Army of the Potomac, United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864), HistoryPeople
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Benjamin Franklin Fisher (1834-1915), Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894)Places
United States, Washington (D.C.), Key West, Florida, Virginia, Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)Times
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition available, no. 11,146.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1956.
Photocopies of the original in private hands. [S.l.].
Purchase, 1956.
Army officer.
Collection material in English.
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