MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aBanks, Nathaniel Prentiss,$d1816-1894.
245 00 $aNathaniel Prentiss Banks papers,$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.
541 $cPurchase,$d1921-1975.
541 $cGift,$aElizabeth D. Castner, Archivist, Waltham Public Library, Waltham, Mass.$d1982.
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.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010141
600 10 $aAllen, S. M.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBanks, Mary Theodosia Palmer$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBigelow, John,$d1817-1911$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBird, F. W.$q(Francis William),$d1809-1894$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBlaine, James Gillespie,$d1830-1893$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBoutwell, George S.$q(George Sewall),$d1818-1905$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBowles, Samuel,$d1826-1878$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBurlingame, Anson,$d1820-1870$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aButler, Benjamin F.$q(Benjamin Franklin),$d1818-1893$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDay, Horace H.,$d1813-1878$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFarragut, David Glasgow,$d1801-1870$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aForbes, John Murray,$d1813-1898$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFrémont, John Charles,$d1813-1890$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGrant, Ulysses S.$q(Ulysses Simpson),$d1822-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHalleck, H. W.$q(Henry Wager),$d1815-1872$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHay, John,$d1838-1905$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJackson, Stonewall,$d1824-1863.
600 10 $aLaw, George,$d1806-1881$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMcClellan, George Brinton,$d1826-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMcDowell, Irvin,$d1818-1885$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPatterson, Robert,$d1792-1881$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPope, John,$d1822-1892$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPorter, David D.$q(David Dixon),$d1813-1891$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPorter, Fitz-John,$d1822-1901$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSchurz, Carl,$d1829-1906$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aScott, Winfield,$d1786-1866$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSeward, William Henry,$d1801-1872$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSherman, Isaac,$d1788-1863$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSherman, John,$d1823-1900$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSherman, William T.$q(William Tecumseh),$d1820-1891$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aShields, James,$d1810-1879$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSigel, Franz,$d1824-1902$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aStanton, Edwin McMasters,$d1814-1869$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSumner, Charles,$d1811-1874.
600 10 $aVanderbilt, Cornelius,$d1794-1877$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWelles, Gideon,$d1802-1878$vCorrespondence.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bDept. of the Gulf (1862-1865)
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCongress.$bHouse.
610 10 $aUnited States.$tKansas-Nebraska Act.
610 20 $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
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
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