This Nathaniel P. Banks who vetoed a bill as Massachusetts governor enabling black men to enter the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1858, according to Roger D. Cunningham , author of BLACK CITIZEN-SOLDIERS OF KANSAS (2008), was the same miserable political Union General who maliciously wasted black lives at the siege Port Hudson in 1863; Louisiana's black-commanded Corps D'Afrique, who in spite of Banks' venal incompetence, still carried the day against the Mississippi River fortress , which turned the fortunes of War in the West, with Vicksburg's fall!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_P._Banks
Sunday, April 16, 2017
NATHANIEL PRENTICE BANKS
This Nathaniel P. Banks who vetoed a bill as Massachusetts governor enabling black men to enter the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1858, according to Roger D. Cunningham , author of BLACK CITIZEN-SOLDIERS OF KANSAS (2008), was the same miserable political Union General who maliciously wasted black lives at the siege Port Hudson in 1863; Louisiana's black-commanded Corps D'Afrique, who in spite of Banks' venal incompetence, still carried the day against the Mississippi River fortress , which turned the fortunes of War in the West, with Vicksburg's fall!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_P._Banks