This is a very nice seated view of Banks in uniform. He wears a double-breasted coat with shoulder straps. Clear image with very fine contrast. Mount remains in good, untrimmed condition. Case & Getchell b/m.

Nathaniel Prentice Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. He won election to the House of Representatives and was Governor of Massachusetts in the 1850s.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln appointed Banks as one of the first political major generals, over the heads of West Point regulars. After suffering a series of inglorious setbacks in the Shenandoah Valley at the hands of Stonewall Jackson, Banks replaced Benjamin Butler as commander of the Department of the Gulf. He launched the Red River Campaign, a failed attempt to occupy northern Louisiana and eastern Texas that prompted his recall.

After the war, Banks returned to the Massachusetts political scene, serving in Congress, where he supported Manifest Destiny, influenced the Alaska Purchase legislation, and supported women's suffrage.  He is buried in Waltham's Grove Hill Cemetery.   [jet] [PH:L]

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