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Banks, National.
The plan of the national banks is believed to have originated with Salmon P. Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury.
In his report for December, 1861, he recommended the gradual issue of national bank-notes, secured by the pledge of United States bonds, in preference to the further issue of United States notes, $50,000,000 of which had been issued during the previous year.
A bill was soon after prepared in accordance with the Secretary's views, and printed for the use of the committee of ways and means, but it was not reported, and on July 8 following, Thaddeus Stevens, the chairmen of the committee, submitted the bill with an adverse report.
The immediate necessities of the government compelled the further issue of legaltender notes, and the consideration of the bank act was deferred.
In his report for 1862, Mr. Chase again urged the passage of the national bank bill, and President Lincoln also recommended it in his message.
The principal reason why Mr. Chase
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breckinridge , John Cabell , -1875 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brownlow , William Gannaway , 1805 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell , Charles Thomas 1823 - (search)
Campbell, Charles Thomas 1823-
Military officer; born in Franklin county, Pa., Aug. 10, 1823; was educated at Marshall College; served in the war with Mexico; promoted captain in August, 1847.
When the Civil War broke out he entered the army, and in December, 1861, was commissioned colonel of the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Later he and his regiment were captured, but they escaped and brought into the Union lines more than 200 Confederate captives.
On March 13, 1863, he was promoted brigadier-general.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips , Wendell 1811 -1884 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washburne , Cadwallader Colden 1818 -1882 (search)
Washburne, Cadwallader Colden 1818-1882
Military officer; born in Livermore, Me., April 22, 1818; brother of Elihu Benjamin Washburne; was a land surveyor in early life, and afterwards a lawyer; went West in 1839, and finally settled at La Crosse, Wis., in 1859.
He was in Congress from 1856 to 1862; a delegate to the peace conference in 1861, and soon after the attack on Fort Sumter he raised the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, of which he became colonel, and, in December, 1861, conducted a successful expedition from Helena, Ark., into the interior of Mississippi.
He was exceedingly active and efficient in the command of divisions in operations around Vicksburg in 1863, and afterwards served with distinction under Banks in Louisiana.
He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in July, 1862, and major-general in November.
From 1867 till 1871 he was a member of Congress, and in the latter year was chosen governor of Wisconsin.
He died in Eureka Springs, Ark., May 14, 1882.