Trivia 9-18-2020 & Bonus

[Trivia Master]

Who was the Civil War general that carried the nickname, "Bobbin Boy" ?

credit: @warbird43

bonus:
Born a slave, I was named after a famous American. I fought in the U. S. Army during the war. Afterward, I served a two-year term in the Alabama Legislature. I relocated my family to Atlanta, where I established a contracting firm. My son joined me and our firm successfully continued in business until the 1920s, completing many well-known projects.
Who am I?

credit: @WJC

 

[hughes]

Nathaniel Prentiss

BONUS: Horace King

Edit - Gen. Nathaniel Banks' last name wasn't Prentiss, and Gen. Benjamin Prentiss' first name wasn't Nathaniel.

Horace King fits some of the clues for the bonus, but not all of them.

hoosier

 

[connecticut yankee]

Nathaniel Prentice Banks, was born January 30, 1816, in Waltham, Massachusetts. With little formal education, Banks found work early in a cotton factory as a "bobbin boy,"

 

[captaindrew]

Main question: Nathaniel Banks

 

[FarawayFriend]

Regular question:

Nathaniel P. Banks

Nathaniel Banks

Facts, information and articles about Nathaniel Banks, a Union Civil War general during the American Civil War

www.historynet.com

 

[DBF]

Question
So named for his job as a young boy responsible for taking off empty bobbins and replacing full bobbins while employed at the many, many textile mills in New England (he worked in a Massachusetts mill) he was Nathaniel Prentice "Bobbin Boy Banks" (1816-1894).

Bonus
You Are: Alexander Hamilton (circa 1840-1911)
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alexander-hamilton-and-son

 

[ErnieMac]

Main question: Who was the Civil War general that carried the nickname, "Bobbin Boy"? Nathaniel P. Banks

Lincoln's Massachusetts "Bobbin Boy" or General "Commissary Banks"

Lincoln's Massachusetts "Bobbin Boy," was the President's first appointment as a Brigadier General of Volunteers, eventually earning the nickname,"Commissary Banks."

www.civilwarbummer.com

 

[stuart1861]

- Nathaniel P. Banks, though I'd prefer "Commissary Banks."
- Alexander Hamilton

 

[captaindrew]

Bonus: Alexander Hamilton https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org...his son,Hamilton joined his father's business.

 

[WJC]

Who was the Civil War general that carried the nickname, "Bobbin Boy" ?

credit: @warbird43

Nathaniel Prentice Banks (1816-1894). As a boy with little formal education, Banks worked in a textile mill as a "bobbin boy", a worker who kept the loom operators supplied with bobbins- spools of thread and made minor repairs to equipment.
Source: "Lincoln's Massachusetts "Bobbin Boy" or General "Commissary Banks", Civil War Bummer.

Lincoln's Massachusetts "Bobbin Boy" or General "Commissary Banks"

Lincoln's Massachusetts "Bobbin Boy," was the President's first appointment as a Brigadier General of Volunteers, eventually earning the nickname,"Commissary Banks."

www.civilwarbummer.com

 

[ErnieMac]

Bonus: Who am I? Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton and Son - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Alexander Hamilton and his son Alexander D. Hamilton were African American builders in Atlanta from the 1890s into the 1920s. Their contracting firm, Alexander Hamilton and Son, began in 1890, when the younger Hamilton joined his father’s business. Alexander Hamilton was born enslaved, circa...

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org

 

[gentlemanrob]

Regular Question: Nathaniel Banks

Bonus: Monroe Bowers Morton

 

[Brenal]

Nathaniel P. Banks.

 

[JOHN42768]

Main: Nathaniel Prentice Banks

Bonus: to follow

 

[NFB22]

Nathaniel Banks

Bonus - Best guess would be Horace King?

 

[Lewis214]

Nathaniel Banks
https://www.historynet.com/general-nathaniel-banks

Bonus:
Horace King
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1245

 

[Mike Serpa]

Nathaniel P. Banks

 

[Poorville]

Nathaniel P. Banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_P._Banks

Alexander Hamilton
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alexander-hamilton-and-son

 

[kholland]

Nathaniel Banks is the general, although I remember the more well known nickname given to him during Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign, "Commissary Banks".

Bonus : Alexander Hamilton

 

[luinrina]

Regular question:
You truly learn something new every day. I didn't know that Major General Nathanial P. Banks was nicknamed "Bobbin Boy" because he worked in a cotton mill as a child and was Elias Howe's apprentice! I also didn't know he had another nickname next to "Commissary Banks".

Sources: https://www.historynet.com/general-nathaniel-banks, http://www.civilwarbummer.com/lincolns-massachusetts-bobbin-boy-or-general-commissary-banks/


Bonus:
I believe you are Alexander Hamilton.

Source: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alexander-hamilton-and-son