C.B. Comstock papers, (Record no. 42167)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | mm 79016527 |
| NUCMC control number | ms 62004637 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | W |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Comstock, C. B. |
| Fuller form of name | (Cyrus Ballou), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1910. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | C.B. Comstock papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1847-1908 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1862-1890). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 900 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 4 |
| Type of unit | containers. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 4 |
| Type of unit | microfilm reels. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1.6 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 3 series. Series 1: Diaries and Notebooks, 1862-1867; Series 2: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1855-1908; and Series 3: Miscellany, 1847-1862. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, memoirs, reports, notebooks, orders, memoirs, sketches, and other papers primarily concerning Comstock's Civil War service as chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Topics include the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.; the capture of Fort Fisher, N.C.; the fords on the Rapidan and Rappahannock rivers, Va.; the defenses at Aquia Creek, Va. and Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; Ulysses S. Grant's resignation as U.S. secretary of war under Andrew Johnson; James K. Polk's 1847 annual message to Congress concerning the Mexican War; Comstock's service as president of the U.S. Mississippi River Commission (1884) including improvement of the Mississippi River; the ancestry of Jesse Root Grant; and William Petit Trowbridge. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondents include Henry Martyn Adams, B.S. Alexander, Daniel Butterfield, James Buchanan Eads, Ulysses S. Grant, H.W. Halleck, A.A. Humphreys, George Gordon Meade, David D. Porter, John McAllister Schofield, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Daniel Edgar Sickles, E.D. Townsend, Seth Williams, and Horatio Gouverneur Wright. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Microfilm edition available, |
| Order number | no. 17,560 |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. |
| Place of reproduction | Washington, D.C. : |
| Agency responsible for reproduction | Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, |
| Date of reproduction | 1979. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | U.S. Army officer and engineer. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 0# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Adams, Henry Martyn, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1844-1909 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alexander, B. S. |
| Fuller form of name | (Barton Stone), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1819-1878 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Butterfield, Daniel, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1901 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Eads, James Buchanan, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1820-1887 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grant, Jesse Root, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1794-1873 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grant, Jesse Root, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1794-1873 |
| General subdivision | Family. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grant, Ulysses S. |
| Fuller form of name | (Ulysses Simpson), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1885 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grant, Ulysses S. |
| Fuller form of name | (Ulysses Simpson), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1885 |
| General subdivision | Resignation from office. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Halleck, H. W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Henry Wager), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1815-1872 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Humphreys, A. A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Andrew Atkinson), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1810-1883 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Meade, George Gordon, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1815-1872 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Polk, James K. |
| Fuller form of name | (James Knox), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1795-1849. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Porter, David D. |
| Fuller form of name | (David Dixon), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1891 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schofield, John McAllister, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1906 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sheridan, Philip Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1888 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sherman, William T. |
| Fuller form of name | (William Tecumseh), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1820-1891 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sickles, Daniel Edgar, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1819-1914 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Townsend, E. D. |
| Fuller form of name | (Edward Davis), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1817-1893 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Trowbridge, William Pettit, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1828-1892. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Williams, Seth, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1866 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1820-1899 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army of the Potomac. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Mississippi River Commission. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fords (Stream crossings) |
| Geographic subdivision | Virginia |
| -- | Rapidan River. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fords (Stream crossings) |
| Geographic subdivision | Virginia |
| -- | Rappahannock River. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fortification |
| Geographic subdivision | North Carolina. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mexican War, 1846-1848. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Presidents |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| Form subdivision | Messages. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Aquia Creek (Va.) |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort) |
| General subdivision | Capture, 1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Mississippi |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Mississippi River |
| General subdivision | Navigation. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | North Carolina |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Rapidan River (Va.) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Rappahannock River (Va.) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| General subdivision | Engineering and construction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Vicksburg (Miss.) |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Vicksburg (Miss.) |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Siege, 1863. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Virginia |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | West Virginia |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Army officers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Engineers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101.3</a> |
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