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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

James W. Banning

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy merchant Joseph Lewis Banning (1807-1875), in 1860 he was a 24 year old merchant living with his parents and siblings (ad 5 slaves) at Greenville in Meriwether County, GA. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E, 28th Georgia Infantry on 10 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in command at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 as senior officer present after Captain Garrison was wounded.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain on 15 October 1862 and to Major of the Regiment on 1 June (to date from 20 February, accepted 18 October) 1864, but was ill in the Wayside and Jackson Hospitals in Richmond, VA from June to at least August 1864. He was on wounded furlough in Greenville, GA by 18 September 1864, with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 he was Ordinary and Clerk of the Court living in Greenville, GA and in 1880 was a Notary Public there, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Mary Ann Blalock (1838-1878) in March 1860 and they hd 5 children.

Birth

c. 1836 in GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19522]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31907]

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