Postbellum Career
Following the Civil War, President Johnson appointed Averell as U.S. consul general to British North America (1866–1869). In later life, his skill as an inventor of practical devices provided him with a handsome income. Among his inventions were methods for manufacturing steel castings and insulated electrical cable. He is most famous as the inventor of American asphalt pavement. He was the author of Ten Years in the Saddle (1978) and co-author of History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, 60th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (1905), both published posthumously.
General Averell died in Bath, New York, and is buried there.
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