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Colvin, Hervey A. (1841-1885) 18th Michigan Volunteers
Letters, 1862, 1863. 2 items.
Letters from Colvin to Jacob Baker describing black life
and expectations in Kentucky, and a skirmish with forces under
Gen. John Pegram (CSA).
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Comstock, Cyrus Ballou (1831-1910) Gen., USA
Papers, 1847-1908. ca. 900 items.
Official correspondence, reports, orders, and notebooks
relating to Comstock's service as assistant and chief engineer
in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee,
assistant inspector general of the Military Division of the
Mississippi, and aide-de-camp to General Grant. Includes engineering
reports, a list of the number and type guns at the Siege
of Vicksburg, lists of officers, and sketches of various fords,
rivers, ferry crossings, and fortifications. Also contains a diary,
Oct. 16,1863 —Dec. 9, 1867, containing information on Federal
hospitals in Kentucky and Tennessee, tactics in the Chattanooga,
Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Mobile campaigns,
Terry's Fort Fisher expedition, the Battle of Cold Harbor (1864),
and skirmishes along the North Anna River and Totopotomy
Creek, Va.
Finding aid and microfilm copy (4 reels) available.
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Conant, Abram F. (d. 1863) Pvt., 1st Michigan
Engineers and Mechanics
Family papers, 1845-72. 45 items.
Contains 15 letters from Conant to his wife written from
camps in Kentucky and Tennessee, Oct. 1862-Feb. 1863. Provides
information on camp life, marches, morale, diet, skirmishes
with Confederate cavalry units, disease, and deaths.
Also contains a certificate of Conant's enlistment and death
signed by Capt. Marcus Grant.
189
Confederate States of America
Records, 1858-72. ca. 18,500 items.
Chiefly official records and correspondence between the
Secretary of State (usually Judah P. Benjamin) and Confederate
agents in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico concerning
administrative and financial matters, passports, pardons,
and domestic matters in the Confederacy. Also, records of
the Departments of Justice, Treasury, Navy, War, and Post
Office; proclamations, messages, and miscellaneous papers of
President Jefferson Davis; acts and resolutions of the Confeder-
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