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engineer Soldier college professor
Henry Lawrence Eustis was born at Fort Independence, Boston, Massachusetts, the seventh and youngest son of Brig. - General Abraham Eustis and Rebecca (Sprague) Eustis. His grandfather, also Abraham Eustis, was a brother of William Eustis.
There was an army tradition in the family, and Henry, after taking a degree from Harvard in 1838, accepted an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1842 at the head of his class.
Commissioned as second lieutenant and assigned by virtue of his high scholarship to the Engineer Corps, he was stationed for a brief period in Washington as assistant to the chief of engineers of the army. In 1843-45 he was placed in charge of the construction of Fort Warren and the Lovell’s Island sea wall in Boston harbor ; and he then spent two years in directing engineering operations at Newport.
There he organized the department of engineering in the Lawrence Scientific School, and was dean of the scientific faculty for 1862-63 and from 1871 until his death.
In 1862, although his health was far from good, Eustis secured leave of absence from Harvard in order to become colonel of the loth Massachusetts Volunteers, and served with the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from August 1862 until June 1864.
Writing from the battle-field of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, Eustis said, “Men fell like leaves in autumn; yet the regiment stood firm, never wavered. ”
He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers on September12, 1863, but resigned from the army on June 27, 1864, because of impaired health.
He returned to his college duties in the following autumn and held his Harvard professorship until the close of his life.
During the two years before his death he suffered from a lung malady, and, although he courageously kept on with his work, was obliged slowly to reduce the amount of it which he could perform.
His physicians sent him to Fernandina, Fla. , but the trip did him no good, and he returned to Cambridge to die.
Eustis was an unusual combination of the scholar and the man of action.
His regiment saw plenty of vigorous action, and he himself was under fire at Williamsport, Fredericksburg, Marye’s Heights, Salem, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and other lesser engagements. He published many articles on technical and scientific subjects, and won a well-deserved reputation as an engineering authority.
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Quotations: Writing from the battle-field of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, Eustis said, “Men fell like leaves in autumn; yet the regiment stood firm, never wavered. ”
He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of several other learned societies. His interest in antiquarian researches led to the publication of his Genealogy of the Eustis Family .
On May 2, 1844, he married Sarah Augusta Eckley, by whom he had four children.
He later married, July 10, 1856, Caroline Bartlett Hall, who bore him two children, and who survived him at his death.
