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    faculties. Nathaniel Prentice Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, the first child of Nathaniel P. Banks Sr. and Rebecca Greenwood Banks, on January...
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    Jackson enveloped the right flank of the Union Army under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks and pursued it as it fled across the Potomac River into Maryland....
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    Democratic Party. The Know Nothing movement managed to elect congressman Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts and several other individuals into office in the...
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    approximately 30,000 federal troops under the command of Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, and Confederate forces under General E. Kirby Smith, whose strength...
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    the Whig Party following 1848. The party then succeeded in electing Nathaniel P. Banks as Speaker of the House in the 34th Congress. However, the party started...
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    with the surrender of the downriver Port Hudson to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks on July 9, yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces...
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  • Civil War between Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks against Confederate Major General Richard Taylor during Banks' operations against the Bayou Teche...
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  • killer Sir Maurice Banks (1901–1991), British businessman Mike Banks (mountaineer) (1922–2013), British mountain climber Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil...
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    Confederate victory, which had caused the Union commander, Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, to send his wagons, with most of his artillery, downriver in retreat...
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    Banks giving them due credit for their valiant contributions to the siege. MG Nathaniel P. Banks Chief of Staff: BG George L. Andrews, BG Charles P....
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  • Alpheus S. Williams and James Shields and commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, was designated as the V Corps. These divisions were then operating...
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    the American Party. Senator John C. Frémont of California Speaker Nathaniel P. Banks from Massachusetts (declined nomination) Associate Justice John McLean...
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    as part of the American Civil War. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks attacked Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall"...
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    and Casey's Division: BG Silas Casey), MG Nathaniel P. Banks (V Corps, which later became the XII Corps; Banks' old Division under BG Alpheus S. Williams...
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    army under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks might strike at Johnston through passes in the Blue Ridge Mountains. By March 12, 1862, Banks occupied Winchester...
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  • the next Congress is not included in the calculations. For instance, Nathaniel Macon served as speaker during both the 8th and 9th Congresses, but the...
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  • Shenandoah under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks on July 25, 1861. Neither Patterson nor Banks referred to his commands as the Army of the...
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  • In the 1864 Red River Campaign, a U.S. force under Major General Nathaniel P. Banks tried to gain control over northwestern Louisiana, but was thwarted...
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    successfully engaged three Union armies (52,000 men), including those of Nathaniel P. Banks and John C. Fremont, preventing them from reinforcing the Union offensive...
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    army under General Nathaniel Banks. Taylor concentrated his forces at Sabine Crossroads, knowing that reinforcements were nearby. Banks prepared for a fight...
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    (March 23, 1862) against Col. Nathan Kimball (part of Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army), but it proved to be a strategic Confederate victory because...
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    fought between Union Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks against Confederate Major General Richard Taylor during Banks's operations against the Bayou Teche...
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    defeat at Gettysburg), and when Port Hudson surrendered to Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks on July 9, Texas and Arkansas were effectively cut off from the Confederacy...
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    Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the lower Mississippi Confederate stronghold...
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    the House was controlled by a coalition of Representatives led by Nathaniel P. Banks, a member of the American Party. March 30, 1855: Elections were held...
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  • continued downriver to Simmesport, Louisiana, to embark Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, the commander of the Army forces involved in the Red River expedition...
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  • rest of 1862 and Butler was replaced by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks on December 17. Banks assumed command of the Department of the Gulf and the Army...
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  • (W) Samuel H. Walley (W) William Appleton (W) Charles W. Upham (W) Nathaniel P. Banks (D) Tappan Wentworth (W) Alexander De Witt (FS) Edward Dickinson (W)...
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    worked as a bobbin boy: Andrew Carnegie, the great steel tycoon Nathaniel Prentice Banks, Governor of Massachusetts and Union general Robert Frost, poet...
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    the party processes that resulted in the eventual election of Nathaniel Prentice Banks as the first Republican governor in 1857. He continued legal activity...
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