Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, 1829-1911 (bulk 1860-1880).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 50,000 items; 110 containers plus 3 oversize; 44.5 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
- Governors -- Massachusetts
- Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Massachusetts
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.
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