Major General Banks / by Ashbel Woodward.

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Major General Banks / by Ashbel Woodward.

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Incomplete draft of brief biography of politician who rose from cleaner of bobbins in a cotton mill in Waltham, Mass., to speaker at temperance gatherings, to governor of Massachusetts and U.S. congressman; describes his role as general in the Civil War.

53 p. ; 21 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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