Maj.-Gen. Henry Blackstone Banning

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Husband Maj.-Gen. Henry Blackstone Banning ¹

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           Born: 1836 1
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         Father: James S. Banning (1800-      ) 2
         Mother: Eliza A. Blackstone (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Maj.-Gen. Henry Blackstone Banning

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Educated at Kenyon College, he studied law and had become a successful practitioner at the time of the breaking out of the Civil War. He at once enlisted (in April, 1861), and was made a captain of Company B of the Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which regiment took part in the battles of Rich Mountain, Romney, Blue Gap, etc. He rose through various grades to the rank of major-general, being breveted as such after the battle of Nashville for eminent and daring service therein. During a portion of the war he was colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, belonging to Gen. Steedman's division of the Army of the Cumberland, which regiment, under his command, at the famous battle of Chickamauga, engaged the Twenty-second Alabama, drove them and captured their colors, the only rebel colors taken in that fearful fight. After the war he resumed the practice of the law at Mount Vernon, and was several times elected from his district a member of the Ohio Legislature. He removed to Cincinnati in 1868. In 1872 the Liberal Republicans nominated him for Congress against Rutherford B. Hayes, whom he defeated by an overwhelming majority in a strongly Republican district. In 1874 he was re-elected to Congress. In 1876 he was again a candidate, and on that occasion ran against Judge Stanley Matthews, whom he defeated.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 546.

2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 545.