C.B. Comstock papers

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subjects: Correspondence,  Resignation from office,  Family,  Fortification,  Presidents,  Messages,  Mexican War, 1846-1848,  United States,  Capture, 1865,  United States. Mississippi River Commission,  United States. Army of the Potomac,  Navigation,  Engineering and construction,  Fords (Stream crossings),  History

People: Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885),  H. W. Halleck (1815-1872),  E. D. Townsend (1817-1893),  John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906),  Horatio Gouverneur Wright (1820-1899),  Seth Williams (1822-1866),  B. S. Alexander (1819-1878),  Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888),  A. A. Humphreys (1810-1883),  George Gordon Meade (1815-1872),  Henry Martyn Adams (1844-1909),  David D. Porter (1813-1891),  William Pettit Trowbridge (1828-1892),  James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887),  Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873),  Daniel Butterfield (1831-1901),  Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914),  William T. Sherman (1820-1891),  James K. Polk (1795-1849)

Places: United States,  Mississippi,  Mississippi River,  Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort),  Rappahannock River (Va.),  Aquia Creek (Va.),  Virginia,  North Carolina,  Vicksburg (Miss.),  Rappahannock River,  Rapidan River (Va.),  West Virginia,  Harpers Ferry (W. Va.),  Rapidan River

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865,  Siege, 1863