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PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS in Nathaniel Prentice Banks biography


N. P. Banks and Family-Related Pictures


Full-length photo of Nathaniel P. Banks from 1850s (opposite title page)  

Guards at Banks's gravesite

Rebecca (Greenwood) Banks, mother of N. P. Banks   

Nathaniel's school house

Early Banks Home    

Nathaniel P. Banks and son Harry

Miniature photo of N. P. Banks, 1850s

N. P. Banks home, 1855-1894, Waltham, Massachusetts

Susan Banks, sister of N. P. Banks

Colonel Gardner Banks, brother of N. P. Banks

General Banks In full uniform

Head view of General Banks

Family photo of N. P. Banks family

Mary Theodosia Banks, wife of N. P. Banks .

Mary Binney Banks, the general's daughter

Mary Theodosia Banks in middle age

Joseph Fremont Banks, the general's son

Maud Banks, the general's daughter

Maud and Joseph Banks, old age, with Emma Jennings

Generals Banks and Frémont in their last years

Kitson statue of General Banks

Tomb of General Banks



Important Associates, Foes, Maps and Other Views

Vice President Henry Wilson

Secretary Caleb Cushing and President Franklin Pierce

Senator Daniel Webster

Springfield, Massachusetts, Armory

Senator Stephen A. Douglas

Senator Charles Sumner [early years in Senate]

Celebration after Banks's election as speaker

Sam Houston

Frank Blair Jr. and John Charles Frémont

Representative Preston Brooks

(Inaccurate) sketch of caning of Charles Sumner

Representative Anson Burlingame

Boston State House

Abraham Lincoln prior to his election

Editor Samuel Bowles and Senator William H. Seward

Editor Thurlow Weed

Governor John A. Andrew

Representative Samuel Hooper and Secretary Salmon P. Chase

Speaker Schuyler Colfax

General Benjamin F. Butler

Generals Scott, McClellan, Banks and Dix

General Robert Patterson

View from Harpers Ferry

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

Maryland Governor Thomas Hicks

General Charles P. Stone and daughter

Governor George S. Boutwell

Generals Alpheus Williams and George Gordon

General John J. Abercrombie and Kate Chase

Top staff of General Banks

Staff members Strother, Copeland and Perkins

Cartoon mocking inactivity on the Potomac

Map of operations, lower Shenandoah Valley, 1862

The shallow Shenandoah at Strasburg

View of the Kernstown battle site

Attack on the stone wall at Kernstown

General James Shields

Map showing pursuit of Stonewall Jackson, 1862

Views of Mount Jackson

The "gap" in Massanutten Mountain

View from Mount Jackson

Detailed view of Massanutten Mountain (northwestern corner)

Northeastern corner of Massanutten overlooking Luray Valley

View of Luray Valley from Massanutten

Colonel John R. Kenly

Map showing Jackson's capture of Front Royal, 1862

Wilder Dwight of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment


Map of the battle at Winchester, May 25, 1862

General Franz Sigel

General John Pope

Map of operations, summer 1862

General Christoper C. Augur

Photo of approach to Cedar Mountain

Map of the battle at Cedar Mtn., August 9, 1862

General Benjamin Roberts

Cedar Run where Banks's men started the day

Approaches to the ridge north of Cedar Mtn.

General Samuel W. Crawford

Brigade commanders of General Augur's division

Close-up view of site of engagement, Cedar Mountain

The course of battle at 6 p.m., Cedar Mountain

The course of battle at 7 p.m., Cedar Mountain

Colonel George D. Ruggles

Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton

Genl. Butler's brother Andrew Butler and Colonel Jonas French

Generals Ulysses Grant, Henry W. Halleck, John McClernand

General Banks, staff, senior officers in New York City, 1862

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt

Shipping mogul Marshall O. Roberts

Soldiers on Banks's ship, North Star

Surprise arrival of North Star in New Orleans

Navy Secretary Gideon Welles

Note offering Banks an apparent bribe of $100,000 [and supplementary photo of Charles A. Weed]

Maps of Galveston Island showing Federal positions

Sketch of the naval action at Galveston, January 1863

General Andrew J. Hamilton

Sketch supposedly depicting revival of old slavery in Louisiana

Scene of operations in Louisiana, 1863

Positions of Vicksburg and Port Hudson on the river  

Admiral David G. Farragut

The bluffs at Port Hudson

The gauntlet of cannon at Port Hudson waterfront

Depiction of Farragut's ships passing Port Hudson

Scene of Operations, spring 1863 in Louisiana

General Godfrey Weitzel

General Richard Taylor

General Cuvier Grover

Map of battle at Fort Bisland, April 1863

Map of battle at Irish Bend, April 1863

Sketch of fighting at Irish Bend

Sketch of engagement at Butte-á-la-Rose


Scene of operations, April to May 1863

Arrival of Grierson's cavalry raid in Baton Rouge

Colonal Benjamin Grierson

Admiral David D. Porter

General William Dwight

Map of area north of Port Hudson

Confederate General Franklin Gardner

Generals George L. Andrews and William H. Emory

General Thomas W. Sherman

Map relating to first assault, Port Hudson, May 27, 1863

A ravine at Port Hudson

Map of the sector assigned to black troops for the assault

Sketch of Grover's men moving to the May 27 assault


Augur's men moving to the assault

Asst. Secretary of War Charles A. Dana

Headquarters of Genl. Banks during the siege

Map relating to second assault, Port Hudson, June 14, 1863

Soldiers recovering the dead

Sketch of Springfield Landing near Port Hudson

A Federal mine and the "Citadel" at Port Hudson

Federal soldiers entering the defense works

A romanticized version of the surrender of Port Hudson

Treasury Supervisor Benjamin F. Flanders

General George F. Shepley

Governor Michael Hahn

Elaborate inauguration of Governor Hahn

General Daniel Ullmann

Maps of mouth of Rio Grande and Texas railroad system

General William B. Franklin

Sketch of proposed invasion route, southeastern Texas

Proposed obstruction of road to the Sabine Pass fort

Sketch map of the naval engagement at Sabine Pass

General Napoleon J. T. Dana

Scene of operations, tip of Texas, November 1863

Rough surf during the landing at Brazos Santiago

Occupied Brownsville, Texas

General Thomas E. G. Ransom

Map showing capture of the Texas outer islands, 1863
 
Mexican General Juan Cortina

General William T. Sherman

Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith

General Andrew Jackson "Whitey" Smith

General Joseph Mower

Map of March 1864 Union movements

General Thomas Kilby Smith

Federal transports moored at Alexandria

Another view of the transports

Federal troops crossing Cane River

General Frederick Steele

Theater of operations, April 1864

Map of the Red River area south of Shreveport

The roads leading into Mansfield

Confederate map showing lack of access to Red River

General Albert Lindley Lee

Map showing the outcome of the battle near Mansfiield, April 8, 1864

Confederates attacking the wagon train

Mary Scott's map of the battle at Pleasant Hill, April 9

General Emory's map of the battle

Modern view of the Pleasant Hill battlefield

Sketch of the battle at Pleasant Hill

Map of April 1864 events

Generals Joseph Bailey and David Hunter

Cross-section view of tree dam and diagram of all of Bailey's dam

Cross-section view of crib dam

Photograph and close-up of the dam

Porter's vessels passing through the dam

Sketch of upper dam and diagram of bracket dam

General Edward Canby

Sketch of soldiers crossing "transport bridge," Atchafalaya River.

General Stephen Hurlbut

Representative Daniel W. Gooch

Banks at President Lincoln's last reception

General William F. Smith, attorney James T. Brady, detective Allan Pinkerton

Treasury emissary, Colonel Frank E. Howe

Louisiana Governor James Madison Wells

New Orleans Acting Mayor Samuel M. Quincy

Mansion occupied by General Banks in 1865

Assistant Secretary of State Seward and the Russian minister

The men involved with finalizing the purchase of Alaska

Resort at Baden Baden where some of the Banks family lived

Burlingame's Chinese embassy that was with Banks

The party of the French empress at Suez

The French emporer's home before its destruction

Secretary of State Hamilton Fish

General Daniel Sickles and editor James Gordon Bennett

The House of Representatives in 1866

Editor Simon P. Hanscom

Representatives Oakes Ames and John Alley

Adolph Sutro and his tunnel

The Dancing Liberal-Republicans, Banks, Sumner, Greeley (cartoon)

Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner before their deaths

President Grant's second swearing-in