Samuel Henry Lockett was many things: a colonel and engineer in the Confederate army, a West Point graduate, a poet, a painter (and sketch artist), and an instructor. Lockett designed the defenses of Vicksburg, and destroyed the last bridge leading into the city as Grant’s troops approached (he later wrote about his engineering challenges in “The Defense of Vicksburg,” part of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War). For ten years after the war, he taught math and science, and conducted Louisiana’s topographical survey, but faced mounting financial troubles. An offer of $2,500 a year in gold convinced Lockett to head to Egypt. Several months after his arrival in 1875, Lockett was sent to the Red Sea coastal town of Massowah (he constructed jetties in the port during the Abyssinian campaign). He made two trips to Gura to advise the officers there about locating and building fortifications. One of the few American officers to bring his entire family (his wife and five children) to Cairo, Lockett kept many mementos of his days in Egypt, including the sheet music for “Inno Del Khedive.” He also kept this menu from an 1876 dinner at the Khedive’s palace. Samuel wasn’t the only Lockett to gain some fame; this letter from his daughter Jean was printed in the New York Times. Following his discharge, Lockett gave lectures on Egypt, and returned to teaching. He also invented a surveying instrument called the Odograph. Most significantly, Lockett helped Charles Stone draft plans for the Statue of Liberty construction project. Lockett spent the last year of his life as a railroad engineer in Chile. He died in Bogota in 1891.