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  Nathaniel Prentiss Banks - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NATHANIEL PRENTISS BANKS (1816-1894), American politician and soldier, was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on the 30th of January 1816.
At the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress the anti-Nebraska men gradually united in supporting Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the history of congress, lasting from the 3rd of December 1855 to the 2nd of February 1856, he was chosen on the 133rd ballot.
In the autumn of 1863 Banks organized a number of expeditions to Texas, chiefly for the purpose of preventing the French in Mexico from aiding the Confederates, and secured possession of the region near the mouths of the Nueces and the Rio Grande.
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 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Banks, Nathaniel P., major-general, was born in Waltham, Mass.
Banks then joined Pope, who had command of the army of Virginia, and on August 9, was defeated at the battle of Cedar mountain.
Banks led the expedition up the Red River, his force strengthened by the addition of a powerful fleet, and at Sabine cross-roads met defeat at the hands of Gen. Richard Taylor.
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 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (January 30, 1816 - September 1, 1894), American politician and soldier, was born at Waltham, Massachusetts.
General Nathaniel Banks served as Governor of Massachusetts and the Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives before becoming a General in the Union Army.
At the opening of the 34th Congress the anti-Nebraska men gradually united in supporting Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the history of congress, lasting from December 3, 1855 to February 2, 1856, he was chosen on the 133rd ballot.
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 Major General Nathaniel P. Banks of the Union Army
Banks received only a common school education and at an early age began work as a bobbinboy in a cotton factory, where he earned the nickname "Bobbin Boy", of which his father was superintendent.
Banks served in the Free Soiler Party in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853, and was speaker in 1851 and 1852.
In the autumn of 1863, Banks organized a number of expeditions to Texas, chiefly for the purpose of preventing the French in Mexico from aiding the Confederates, and secured possession of the region near the mouths of the Nueces River and the Rio Grande River.
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 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss 1816-94, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b.
After serving in the Massachusetts legislature (1849-53), Banks entered Congress as a Democrat, was returned in 1855 as a Know-Nothing and became speaker of the House, and was reelected in 1857 as a Republican.
Late in 1862, Banks replaced B. Butler at New Orleans and cooperated with Grant in opening up the Mississippi by capturing Port Hudson in July, 1863, and in participating in the Red River expedition of 1864.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, congressman, governor of Massachusetts, and Union general, was born on January 30, 1816, in Waltham, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel P. and Rebecca (Greenwood) Banks.
Banks was elected as a coalition Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress in 1853 and as a candidate of the American (Know-Nothing) party
Banks planned a quick thrust at the mouth of the Sabine River, then an overland move upon Houston and Galveston.
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 BANKS, Nathaniel Prentice (1816-1894) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Civil War topics include Nathaniel Banks’s activities as Major General of Volunteers in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, 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.
A letter from Nathaniel Prentiss Banks to an unidentified recipient speculating on the possible outcome of an attack on Port Hudson by forces led by Nathaniel Banks.
A field dispatch from Nathaniel Prentiss Banks to Colonel Ruggles of Culpepper, Virginia, regarding the movement of troops for the Battle of Cedar Mountain.
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 Nathaniel P. Banks
Although while governor he had been a strong advocate of peace, he was one of the earliest to offer his services to President Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him in 1861 major-general of volunteers.
When McClellan entered upon his Peninsular Campaign in 1862 the important duty of defending Washington DC from the army of Stonewall Jackson fell to the corps commanded by Banks.
Being ordered to cooperate with Ulysses S. Grant, who was then before Vicksburg, he invested the defenses of Port Hudson, Louisiana, in May 1863, and after three attempts to carry the works by storm he began a regular siege.
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 Nathaniel Prentice BANKS — Infoplease.com
Nathaniel P. Banks, to the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 7, 1858.
Speech of N. Banks, jr., of Mass., on the employment of army officers in national armories.
Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, in the House of representatives, February 13, 1873.
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Nathaniel Banks was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on January 30, 1816.
In this capacity Banks was elected governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861.
Although Banks and his men were winning, Confederate General Ambrose Hill and his troops arrived, and drove Banks and his army from the battlefield, resulting in another defeat.
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 Rough Ride On Red River in the American Civil War
Assigned to the project was a division of Gen. Sherman's army, added to the force of, and commanded by, Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks.
Bank's military career had consisted of losing to Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, losing to Jackson again at Cedar Mountain, and losing in an attempt to capture Port Hudson.
General Banks resigned at the end of the war and was promptly elected to Congress - five terms as a Republican and one as a Democrat, and was also US Marshall for Massachusetts.
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 1st West Virginia Cavalry, Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NATHANIEL PRENTISS BANKS, (See Photo), was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1816.
Banks was responsible for costly assaults at Port Hudson, which was compelled to surrender anyway after the capitulation of Vicksburg, and was the commander, if not the author, (*12) of the ill-fated Red River campaign of 1864.
After the evacuation of Alexandria during the retreat of the expedition, Banks was superseded by General E. Canby.
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 Marse Henry, Complete eBook
Banks, to whom we two were ardently devoted.
Banks was actually elected Speaker I was greatly elated and took some of the credit to myself.
Twenty years afterwards General Banks and I had our seats close together in the Forty-fourth Congress, and he did not recall me at all or the episode of 1853.
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 Amazon.com: Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks: Books: James G. Hollandsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nathaniel P. Banks is generally known as the quintessential political general of the Civil War, his only rival for that dubious distinction being Benjamin Butler (see Chester G. Hearn's When the Devil Came Down to Dixie).
At the onset of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed Banks a major general, and, as Hollandsworth shows, the same pretext of conviction that served Banks so well in politics proved disastrous on the battlefield.
In 1858 Nathaniel P. Banks seemed to have had as good a chance as anyone to become the next president of the United States.
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 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Of the 14 Union officers who received the Thanks of Congress during the Civil War, Nathaniel P. Banks was the least entitled.
Serving under five different party labels during his political career, he rose from a childhood job in a cotton mill in his native Massachusetts-which earned him the nickname "Bobbin Boy"-to become speaker of the state legislature's lower house, U.S. congressman and just before the war, governor.
In the Shenandoah Valley he was routed by Stonewall Jackson and due to his tremendous loss of supplies was dubbed "Commissary Banks" by the Confederates.
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 Printsellers.com - Nathaniel P. Banks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, congressman, governor of Massachusetts and Union general, was born on January 30, 1816 in Waltham, Massachusetts.
After the Civil War began, Banks was commissioned major general of volunteers in 1861.
Though his military record was not an enviable one, he did receive the "Thanks of Congress" for his successful efforts in capturing Port Hudson on July 9, 1863, which helped the Union to open the Mississippi River.
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 Army And Department Of The Gulf
Major-General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1816.
In the organization of the Army of the Potomac in March, 1862, he was assigned to the Fifth Corps, but his force was detached April 4, 1862, and remained in the Shenandoah Valley, where Banks had command until that corps was merged in the Army of Virginia, June 26, 1862.
After the Army of Virginia was discontinued, Banks was at the head of the Military District of Washington until October 27, 1862.
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 SIR JOSEPH BANKS - Online Information article about SIR JOSEPH BANKS
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Banks was equally anxious to join Cook's second expeditioft and expended large sums in engaging assistants and furnishing the necessary equipment; but circumstances obliged him to relinquish his purpose.
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 Nathaniel P. Banks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was born on January 30th.
He is celebrated in the history of Waltham as a civil war leader.
Banks Square and the Banks School were named after him, and this statue can be seen on Waltham Common.
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 Banks - LoveToKnow 1911
There is more than one meaning of Banks discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
This page was last modified 22:03, 1 Sep 2006.
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 NATHANIEL PRENTISS BAN... - Online Information article about NATHANIEL PRENTISS BAN...
Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the See also:
Banks was one of the most prominent of the volunteer See also:
spring Banks was ordered to move against Jackson in the See also:
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 AllRefer.com - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 1816–94, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b.
In the Civil War he was given command in the Dept. of the Shenandoah, where he was defeated by T. (Stonewall) Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester and then at Cedar Mt. during the second battle of Bull Run.
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 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, “Bobbin Boy” “Commissary Banks”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Military skill was not Nathaniel Banks' road to high rank.
For a while he commanded a division, then a Corps in the Army of the Potomac, moved back to the Shenandoah in time to be a victim of Jackson’s Valley Campaign.
Jackson ran rings around the militarily-inexperienced Banks, drove him out of the Valley and captured vast quantities of supplies.
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 BANKS, Nathaniel Prentice (1816-1894) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
N.P. Banks of Massachusetts on the death of Senator Foot, April 12, 1866.
Ruggles, Samuel B. American commerce and American union: their mutual dependence briefly examined, by Samuel B. Ruggles, of New York, in a review of the address delivered at the Merchant’s Exchange, by the Hon.
“The Banks Expedition of 1862.”; Louisiana Historical Quarterly 26 (April 1943): 341-60.
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 Picture History - General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894)
Nathaniel P. Banks was governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he used his political power to gain a military appointment.
However, Banks did not prove to be an effective Union general and he returned to Massachusetts where he served six terms in the House of Representatives.
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