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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0470-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1862
- Title
- [Large portrait of General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 albumen : b&w Height: 45.3 cm, Width: 35.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Vignette bust portrait of Union General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. Uniform has been heavily retouched. Prior to his service in the Union Army, Banks served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1856 to 1857 and Governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him as a major general of volunteers in January 1861. Banks suffered a poor reputation as a field commander, having faced heavy losses at the seige of Port Hudson (1863) and during the Red River campaign (1864). His biggest contribution to the Union effort was in supplying morale and recruits to the Federal cause.
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