TY  - GEN
AU  - Banks,Nathaniel Prentiss
TI  - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers,
KW  - Allen, S. M.
KW  - Banks, Mary Theodosia Palmer
KW  - Bigelow, John,
KW  - Bird, F. W.
KW  - Blaine, James Gillespie,
KW  - Boutwell, George S.
KW  - Bowles, Samuel,
KW  - Burlingame, Anson,
KW  - Butler, Benjamin F.
KW  - Day, Horace H.,
KW  - Farragut, David Glasgow,
KW  - Forbes, John Murray,
KW  - Frémont, John Charles,
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Halleck, H. W.
KW  - Hay, John,
KW  - Jackson, Stonewall,
KW  - Law, George,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - McClellan, George Brinton,
KW  - McDowell, Irvin,
KW  - Patterson, Robert,
KW  - Pope, John,
KW  - Porter, David D.
KW  - Porter, Fitz-John,
KW  - Schurz, Carl,
KW  - Scott, Winfield,
KW  - Seward, William Henry,
KW  - Sherman, Isaac,
KW  - Sherman, John,
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Shields, James,
KW  - Sigel, Franz,
KW  - Stanton, Edwin McMasters,
KW  - Sumner, Charles,
KW  - Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
KW  - Welles, Gideon,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Department of the Gulf (1862-1865)
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Kansas-Nebraska Act
KW  - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
KW  - Canals, Interoceanic
KW  - Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862
KW  - Fenians
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Red River Expedition, 1864
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Annexation to the United States
KW  - Canada
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Central America
KW  - History
KW  - Cuba
KW  - France
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Ireland
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - Italy
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
KW  - Spain
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Governors
KW  - Representatives, U.S. Congress
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141.3
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