[Letter] 1862 Sep. 15, Washington, Head-Quarters of the Army [to] Maj. Gen. [Nathaniel] Banks / H.W. Halleck.

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[Letter] 1862 Sep. 15, Washington, Head-Quarters of the Army [to] Maj. Gen. [Nathaniel] Banks / H.W. Halleck.

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Halleck, as General in Chief of the US Army, requests troops be sent to "the crossings between Great Falls and Point of Rocks." This order was likely a part of the defense of Washington, D.C. in the Civil War.

[1] leaf ; 25 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Banks, Nathaniel Prentice, 1816-1894

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Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. A millworker by background, Banks was prominent in local debating societies, and his oratorical skills were noted by the Democratic Party. However, his abolitionist views fitted him better for the nascent Republican Party, through which he became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Governor of Massachusetts ...

Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872

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Halleck was born on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, third child of 14 of Joseph Halleck, a lieutenant who served in the War of 1812, and Catherine Wager Halleck. Young Henry detested the thought of an agricultural life and ran away from home at an early age to be raised by an uncle, David Wager of Utica. He attended Hudson Academy and Union College, then the United States Military Academy. He became a favorite of military theorist Dennis Hart Mahan and was allowed to teach class...