07538cpcaa2201201 4500 mm 81011734 DLC 20260227111706.0 cr ||||||||||| 811020|||||||||||| eng mm 81011734 ms 82001136 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, 1829-1911 (bulk 1860-1880). 50,000 items. 110 containers plus 3 oversize. 44.5 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence (1860-1880), and diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks's political career in the House of Representatives and to his service as an army officer during the Civil War. Includes papers on the Kansas territorial question, the assault on Charles Sumner, and the establishment of the Republican Party. Civil War topics include Banks's activities as Major General of Volunteers in District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and the Department of the Gulf, Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign, the battle of Cedar Mountain, the Red River campaign, and operations at Port Hudson; also includes official correspondence of Robert Patterson. Other topics include the Alaska purchase, U.S. relations with Spain and Cuba, the Fenian uprising, an isthmian canal, politics in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and the United States, and Reconstruction. Family correspondence consists primarily of letters between Banks and his wife, Mary Theodosia Palmer Banks relating in part to her travels especially in France, Italy, and Switzerland. Other correspondents include S.M. Allen, John Bigelow, Francis W. Bird, James Gillespie Blaine, George S. Boutwell, Samuel Bowles, Anson Burlingame, Benjamin F. Butler, Horace H. Day, David Glasgow Farragut, John Murray Forbes, John Charles Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, John Hay, George Law, Abraham Lincoln, George Brinton McClellan, Irvin McDowell, John Pope, David D. Porter, Fitz-John Porter, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, William Henry Seward, Isaac Sherman, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, James Shields, Franz Sigel, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gideon Welles. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts; and army officer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141 Allen, S. M. Correspondence. Banks, Mary Theodosia Palmer Correspondence. Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 Correspondence. Bird, F. W. (Francis William), 1809-1894 Correspondence. Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Correspondence. Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905 Correspondence. Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878 Correspondence. Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870 Correspondence. Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Correspondence. Day, Horace H., 1813-1878 Correspondence. Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 Correspondence. Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898 Correspondence. Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Correspondence. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Correspondence. Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872 Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905 Correspondence. Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863. Law, George, 1806-1881 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Correspondence. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 Correspondence. McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885 Correspondence. Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881 Correspondence. Pope, John, 1822-1892 Correspondence. Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891 Correspondence. Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901 Correspondence. Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Correspondence. Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Correspondence. Sherman, Isaac, 1788-1863 Correspondence. Sherman, John, 1823-1900 Correspondence. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Correspondence. Shields, James, 1810-1879 Correspondence. Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902 Correspondence. Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 Correspondence. Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877 Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Correspondence. United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865) United States. Congress. House. United States. Kansas-Nebraska Act. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Canals, Interoceanic. Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. Fenians. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Red River Expedition, 1864. Slavery United States. Alaska Annexation to the United States. Canada Foreign relations United States. Central America History. Cuba Foreign relations United States. France Description and travel. Ireland History 1837-1901. Italy Description and travel. Louisiana History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns. Louisiana Politics and government 19th century. Maryland History Civil War, 1861-1865. Massachusetts Politics and government 19th century. Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865. Spain Foreign relations United States. Switzerland Description and travel. United States Foreign relations Cuba. United States Foreign relations Spain. United States Foreign relations Canada. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 19th century. Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865. Army officers. itoamc Governors Massachusetts. itoamc Representatives, U.S. Congress Massachusetts. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141.3 43031 43031