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100 1 _aBanks, Nathaniel Prentiss,
_d1816-1894.
245 0 0 _aNathaniel Prentiss Banks papers,
_f1829-1911
_g(bulk 1860-1880).
300 _a50,000
_fitems.
300 _a110
_fcontainers plus
_a3
_foversize.
300 _a44.5
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence (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.
520 8 _aOther 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.
544 _3Photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
544 _3Some maps
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
545 0 _aU.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts; and army officer.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141
600 1 0 _aAllen, S. M.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBanks, Mary Theodosia Palmer
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBigelow, John,
_d1817-1911
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBird, F. W.
_q(Francis William),
_d1809-1894
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBlaine, James Gillespie,
_d1830-1893
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBoutwell, George S.
_q(George Sewall),
_d1818-1905
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBowles, Samuel,
_d1826-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBurlingame, Anson,
_d1820-1870
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aButler, Benjamin F.
_q(Benjamin Franklin),
_d1818-1893
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDay, Horace H.,
_d1813-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFarragut, David Glasgow,
_d1801-1870
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aForbes, John Murray,
_d1813-1898
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFrémont, John Charles,
_d1813-1890
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Ulysses S.
_q(Ulysses Simpson),
_d1822-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHalleck, H. W.
_q(Henry Wager),
_d1815-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHay, John,
_d1838-1905
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Stonewall,
_d1824-1863.
600 1 0 _aLaw, George,
_d1806-1881
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMcClellan, George Brinton,
_d1826-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMcDowell, Irvin,
_d1818-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPatterson, Robert,
_d1792-1881
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPope, John,
_d1822-1892
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPorter, David D.
_q(David Dixon),
_d1813-1891
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPorter, Fitz-John,
_d1822-1901
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSchurz, Carl,
_d1829-1906
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aScott, Winfield,
_d1786-1866
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSeward, William Henry,
_d1801-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSherman, Isaac,
_d1788-1863
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSherman, John,
_d1823-1900
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSherman, William T.
_q(William Tecumseh),
_d1820-1891
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aShields, James,
_d1810-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSigel, Franz,
_d1824-1902
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aStanton, Edwin McMasters,
_d1814-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSumner, Charles,
_d1811-1874.
600 1 0 _aVanderbilt, Cornelius,
_d1794-1877
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWelles, Gideon,
_d1802-1878
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_bDepartment of the Gulf (1862-1865)
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bCongress.
_bHouse.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_tKansas-Nebraska Act.
610 2 0 _aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
650 0 _aCanals, Interoceanic.
650 0 _aCedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862.
650 0 _aFenians.
650 0 _aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
650 0 _aRed River Expedition, 1864.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aAlaska
_xAnnexation to the United States.
651 0 _aCanada
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aCentral America
_xHistory.
651 0 _aCuba
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aFrance
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aIreland
_xHistory
_y1837-1901.
651 0 _aItaly
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aLouisiana
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCampaigns.
651 0 _aLouisiana
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
651 0 _aMaryland
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aMassachusetts
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
651 0 _aShenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aSpain
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aSwitzerland
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zCuba.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zSpain.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zCanada.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
651 0 _aVirginia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 _aArmy officers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aGovernors
_zMassachusetts.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aRepresentatives, U.S. Congress
_zMassachusetts.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141.3
999 _c43031
_d43031