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Signed photograph of "N. P. Banks."
New Orleans: [c. December 1862 - Sept 1863]. Carte-de-visite by Theodore Lilienthal Signed twice, recto and verso. On the original mount with the photographer's backmark. Condition: extremely light foxing toward top of albumen, else very clean and bright. a superb signed cdv portrait of banks , depicting him half-bust in his general's uniform. Banks signs his name in a bold hand at the base of the photograph. He also signs his name on the verso of the card and writes below: "5th September 1863, at New Orleans." Banks arrived in New Orleans to assume command of the Department of the Gulf from Gen. Butler on 16 December 1862. The following spring and summer Banks conducted the siege of Port Hudson and accepted the surrender of the city on 8 July1863. These events, together with the nearly simultaneous Union victory at Gettysburg, marked the beginning of the end of the Confederate war effort. The photographer, Theodore Lilienthal (1829 1894), established a studio in New Orleans by1857 and was the city's leading photographer at the time of the Civil War.