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See also:BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894) , See also:American politician and soldier, was See also:born at See also:Waltham, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also:January 1816. He received only a See also:common school See also:education and at an See also:early See also:age began See also:work as a bobbin-boy in a See also:cotton factory of which his See also:father was See also:superintendent. Subsequently he edited a weekly See also:paper at Waltham, studied See also:law and was admitted to the See also:bar, his See also:energy and his ability as a public See also:speaker soon winning him distinction. He served as a See also:Free Soiler in the Massachusetts See also:house of representatives from 1849 to 1853, and was speaker in 1851 and 1852; he was See also:president of the See also:state Constitutional See also:Convention of 1853, and in the same See also:year was elected to the See also:national House of Representatives as a See also:coalition See also:candidate of Democrats and Free Soilers. Although re-elected in 1854 as an American or " Know-Nothing," he soon See also:left this party, and in 1855 presided over a Republican convention in Massachusetts. At the opening of the See also:Thirty-See also:Fourth See also:Congress the See also:anti-See also:Nebraska men graduallyunited in supporting Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the See also:history of congress, lasting from the 3rd of See also:December 1855 to the 2nd of See also:February 1856, he was chosen on the 133rd See also:ballot. This has been called the first national victory of the Republican party. Re-elected in 1856 as a Republican, he resigned his . seat in December 1857, and was See also:governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861, a See also:period marked by notable administrative and educational reforms. He then succeeded See also:George B. McClellan as president of the See also:Illinois Central railway. Although while governor jie had been a strong See also:advocate of See also:peace, he was one of the earliest to offer his services to President See also:Lincoln, who appointed him in 1861 See also:major-See also:general of See also:volunteers. Banks was one of the most prominent of the volunteer See also:officers. When McClellan entered upon his See also:Peninsular See also:Campaign in 1862 the important See also:duty of defending See also:Washington from the See also:army of " See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone-See also:wall " See also:Jackson See also:fell to the See also:corps commanded by Banks. In the See also:spring Banks was ordered to move against Jackson in the See also:Shenandoah Valley, but the latter with See also:superior forces defeated him at See also:Winchester, See also:Virginia, on the 25th of May, and forced him back to the See also:Potomac See also:river. On the 9th of See also:August Banks again encountered Jackson at See also:Cedar See also:Mountain, and, though greatly outnumbered, succeeded in holding his ground after a very sanguinary See also:battle. He was later placed in command of the See also:garrison at Washington, and in See also:November sailed from New See also:York with a strong force to replace General B. F. See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler at New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans as See also:commander of the See also:Department of the Gulf. Being ordered to co-operate with See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, who was then before See also:Vicksburg, he invested the defences of See also:Port See also:Hudson, See also:Louisiana, in May 1863, and after three attempts to carry the See also:works by See also:storm he began a See also:regular See also:siege. The garrison surrendered to Banks on the 9th of See also:July, on receiving word that Vicksburg had fallen. In the autumn of 1863 Banks organized a number of expeditions to See also:Texas, chiefly for the purpose of preventing the See also:French in See also:Mexico from aiding the Confederates, and secured See also:possession of the region near the mouths of the Nueces and the Rio Grande. But his Red River expedition, March–May 1864, forced upon him by superior authority, was a See also:complete failure. In August 1865 he was mustered out of the service, and from 1865 to 1873 he was again a representative in congress, serving as chairman of the See also:committee on See also:foreign affairs. A See also:personal See also:quarrel with President Grant led in 1872, however, to his joining the Liberal-Republican revolt in supportof See also:Horace See also:Greeley, and as the Liberal-Republican and Democratic candidate he was defeated for re-See also:election. In 1874 he was successful' as a Democratic candidate, serving one See also:term (1875-1877). Having rejoined the Republican party in 1876, he was See also:United States See also:marshal for Massachusetts from 1879 until 1888, when for the ninth See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was elected to Congress. He retired at the See also:close of his term (1891) and died at Waltham on the 1st of See also:September 1894.
End of Article: BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
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