1-624-541 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician and soldier, 1862-1867. Banks (1816-1894) served as Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1856-1857. After the outbreak of the Civil War President Lincoln appointed him a Major-General of Volunteers despite the fact that he was not a graduate of the US Military Academy. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.