TY  - GEN
AU  - Comstock,C.B.
TI  - C.B. Comstock papers,
KW  - Adams, Henry Martyn,
KW  - Alexander, B. S.
KW  - Butterfield, Daniel,
KW  - Eads, James Buchanan,
KW  - Grant, Jesse Root,
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Halleck, H. W.
KW  - Humphreys, A. A.
KW  - Meade, George Gordon,
KW  - Polk, James K.
KW  - Porter, David D.
KW  - Schofield, John McAllister,
KW  - Sheridan, Philip Henry,
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Sickles, Daniel Edgar,
KW  - Townsend, E. D.
KW  - Trowbridge, William Pettit,
KW  - Williams, Seth,
KW  - Wright, Horatio Gouverneur,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army of the Potomac
KW  - Mississippi River Commission
KW  - Fords (Stream crossings)
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Rapidan River
KW  - Rappahannock River
KW  - Fortification
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Mexican War, 1846-1848
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Messages
KW  - Aquia Creek (Va.)
KW  - History
KW  - Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)
KW  - Capture, 1865
KW  - Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Rapidan River (Va.)
KW  - Rappahannock River (Va.)
KW  - Engineering and construction
KW  - Vicksburg (Miss.)
KW  - Siege, 1863
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Engineers
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 17,560; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1979
N2  - 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; 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; 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101.3
ER  -