Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers

LC control no.	mm 81011734
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894. » More like this
Main title	Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, 1829-1911 (bulk 1860-1880).
Description	50,000 items. 110 containers plus 3 oversize. 44.5 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Biography/History note	U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts; and army officer.
Summary	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.
Notes	Photographs: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some maps: transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Collection material in English. MSS11734
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141>
Acquisition source	Purchase, 1921-1975. Gift, Elizabeth D. Castner, Archivist, Waltham Public Library, Waltham, Mass. 1982.
Subjects	Allen, S. M.--Correspondence. » More like this Banks, Mary Theodosia Palmer--Correspondence. » More like this Bigelow, John, 1817-1911--Correspondence. » More like this Bird, F. W. (Francis William), 1809-1894--Correspondence. » More like this Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893--Correspondence. » More like this Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905--Correspondence. » More like this Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878--Correspondence. » More like this Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870--Correspondence. » More like this Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893--Correspondence. » More like this Day, Horace H., 1813-1878--Correspondence. » More like this Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870--Correspondence. » More like this Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898--Correspondence. » More like this Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890--Correspondence. » More like this Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Correspondence. » More like this Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872--Correspondence. » More like this Hay, John, 1838-1905--Correspondence. » More like this Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863. » More like this Law, George, 1806-1881--Correspondence. » More like this Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Correspondence. » More like this McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885--Correspondence. » More like this McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885--Correspondence. » More like this Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881--Correspondence. » More like this Pope, John, 1822-1892--Correspondence. » More like this Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891--Correspondence. » More like this Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901--Correspondence. » More like this Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906--Correspondence. » More like this Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866--Correspondence. » More like this Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872--Correspondence. » More like this Sherman, Isaac, 1788-1863--Correspondence. » More like this Sherman, John, 1823-1900--Correspondence. » More like this Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Correspondence. » More like this Shields, James, 1810-1879--Correspondence. » More like this Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902--Correspondence. » More like this Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869--Correspondence. » More like this Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. » More like this Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877--Correspondence. » More like this Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878--Correspondence. » More like this United States. Army. Dept. of the Gulf (1862-1865) » More like this United States. Congress. House. » More like this United States. Kansas-Nebraska Act. » More like this Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) » More like this Canals, Interoceanic. » More like this Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. » More like this Fenians. » More like this Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) » More like this Red River Expedition, 1864. » More like this Slavery--United States. » More like this Alaska--Annexation to the United States. » More like this Canada--Foreign relations--United States. » More like this Central America--History. » More like this Cuba--Foreign relations--United States. » More like this France--Description and travel. » More like this Ireland--History--1837-1901. » More like this Italy--Description and travel. » More like this Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. » More like this Louisiana--Politics and government--19th century. » More like this Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this Massachusetts--Politics and government--19th century. » More like this Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this Spain--Foreign relations--United States. » More like this Switzerland--Description and travel. » More like this United States--Foreign relations--Cuba. » More like this United States--Foreign relations--Spain. » More like this United States--Foreign relations--Canada. » More like this United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this United States--Politics and government--19th century. » More like this Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this Washington (D.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this Army officers. Governors--Massachusetts. Representatives, U.S. Congress--Massachusetts.
Local shelving no.	0532P Oversize 0115I
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