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040 _aDLC
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_dDLC
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_2lcmd
100 1 _aComstock, C. B.
_q(Cyrus Ballou),
_d1831-1910.
245 0 0 _aC.B. Comstock papers,
_f1847-1908
_g(bulk 1862-1890).
300 _a900
_fitems.
300 _a4
_fcontainers.
300 _a4
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a1.6
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged 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 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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 _aTopics 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 _aCorrespondents 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 _aMicrofilm edition available,
_dno. 17,560
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1979.
545 0 _aU.S. Army officer and engineer.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 0 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101
600 1 0 _aAdams, Henry Martyn,
_d1844-1909
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAlexander, B. S.
_q(Barton Stone),
_d1819-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aButterfield, Daniel,
_d1831-1901
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEads, James Buchanan,
_d1820-1887
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Jesse Root,
_d1794-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Jesse Root,
_d1794-1873
_xFamily.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Ulysses S.
_q(Ulysses Simpson),
_d1822-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Ulysses S.
_q(Ulysses Simpson),
_d1822-1885
_xResignation from office.
600 1 0 _aHalleck, H. W.
_q(Henry Wager),
_d1815-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHumphreys, A. A.
_q(Andrew Atkinson),
_d1810-1883
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMeade, George Gordon,
_d1815-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPolk, James K.
_q(James Knox),
_d1795-1849.
600 1 0 _aPorter, David D.
_q(David Dixon),
_d1813-1891
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSchofield, John McAllister,
_d1831-1906
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSheridan, Philip Henry,
_d1831-1888
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSherman, William T.
_q(William Tecumseh),
_d1820-1891
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSickles, Daniel Edgar,
_d1819-1914
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTownsend, E. D.
_q(Edward Davis),
_d1817-1893
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTrowbridge, William Pettit,
_d1828-1892.
600 1 0 _aWilliams, Seth,
_d1822-1866
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Horatio Gouverneur,
_d1820-1899
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy of the Potomac.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bMississippi River Commission.
650 0 _aFords (Stream crossings)
_zVirginia
_zRapidan River.
650 0 _aFords (Stream crossings)
_zVirginia
_zRappahannock River.
650 0 _aFortification
_zNorth Carolina.
650 0 _aMexican War, 1846-1848.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_vMessages.
651 0 _aAquia Creek (Va.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aFort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)
_xCapture, 1865.
651 0 _aHarpers Ferry (W. Va.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aMississippi
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aMississippi River
_xNavigation.
651 0 _aNorth Carolina
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aRapidan River (Va.)
651 0 _aRappahannock River (Va.)
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xEngineering and construction.
651 0 _aVicksburg (Miss.)
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aVicksburg (Miss.)
_xHistory
_ySiege, 1863.
651 0 _aVirginia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aWest Virginia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 _aArmy officers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aEngineers.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009101.3
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