Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Abert, James William, 1820-1897. Papers, 1861-93
Call No.
Mss. A A991
Content
Army officer and university professor. Journal, writings, note-books, sketchbooks, a few letters, and other papers. Includes a journal of Abert's service as topographical engineer in the U. S. Army under Generals Robert Patterson and Nathaniel P. Banks in the Shenandoah Valley, July 2-Aug. 30, 1861; an article, Personal recollections of the war, by a Virginian (David Hunter Strother) from Harper's new monthly magazine, with annotations by Abert; letters and orders from Abert's superior officers (1861-68), testifying to his services in the Mexican and Civil Wars: a notebook containing engineering memoranda; notes on the Arabian nights and on the Battle of Fredericksburg; reprints of articles contributed by Abert to the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (1884-90); sketchbook of miscellaneous pencil and water-color sketches ( 1893) ; and notes for an article entitled "Pleasure grounds for the benefit of the public."