Samuel Henry Lockett papers, 1820-1972.

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Samuel Henry Lockett papers, 1820-1972.

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The collection documents Samuel Henry Lockett's family life and his careers as a military officer, engineer, and teacher. Correspondence, chiefly with Cornelia Clark Lockett, documents their marriage, household matters, and family life, as well as the nature of the work that kept Lockett away from his family. There is some correspondence with their children, other Lockett and Clark family members, and with military and professional associates. Other materials, including writings, reports, notebooks, photographs, and maps, relate chiefly to Lockett's professional careers: he served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and chief engineer for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, preparing Confederate defenses at Vicksburg, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and other points along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast; he served as colonel of engineers in the Egyptian Army (1875-1877) in Egypt and Abyssinia; he taught at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (1867-1873), University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and at private schools in Alabama (1877-1873); and he was involved in construction work on the Statue of Liberty, New York City (1883-1884), waterworks projects in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas (1883-1889), and railroad engineering projects in Chile and Colombia (1883-1891). Also included are materials relating to the odograph, a survey instrument invented by Lockett; extensive notes for a topographical survey of Louisiana; several volumes documenting family travel and life abroad, including Cornelia Clark Lockett's journal in Egypt and a partial newspaper copy of an article based on the journal she kept while she was in Colombia in 1890; lectures and writings on scientific and mathematical subjects as well as education and the arts, Egypt, Panama, Peru, Chile, and Colombia; a retrospective account of the defense of Vicksburg; a book of poetry; and a recipe book.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers

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Lockett, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1837-1891

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Samuel Henry Lockett (1837-1891) was an engineering officer in the United States, Confederate, and Egyptian armies, and a professor at Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He married Cornelia C. Clark in 1859 and with her had six children. From the description of Samuel Henry Lockett papers, 1820-1972. WorldCat record id: 43927313 Samuel H. Lockett graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1859. He resigned from the army when Alabama seceded...

Lockett, Cornelia Clarke, 1841-1912.

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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

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Arthur Taylor Prescott (1863-1942) graduated from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., in 1884. He became commandant of the student cadet organization at the University of Virginia in 1887, the first president of the Louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston in 1894, and professor of government at Louisiana State University in 1899. From the description of Arthur T. Prescott receipts, 1880-1885. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 308362360 ...