Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss 1816-1894 creator mixed material monographic eng 50,000 110 3 44.5 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. Open to research. 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. 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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 Governors Representatives, U.S. Congress mm 81011734 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141.3 Open to research. DLC 811020 20260227111706.0 mm 81011734